Colorado’s home opener was a wonderful display of Coors Field baseball. Both starters pitched decently, Austin Gomber allowing two runs in four innings and Zach Littell just one in five. But the home team touched up Colin Poche for three runs in the fifth, including a two-run Ezequiel Tovar homer, and Kris Bryant poled a two-run homer off Jacob Waguespack in the eighth for some insurance. Staked to a 6-2 lead, Justin Lawrence allowed hits to five of the six batters he faced and the game was tied.
Former Ray Jalen Beeks came in, and Jose Caballero was credited with a sacrifice for moving Ben Rortvedt to second because obviously it’s always the right play to make the second out at Coors Field to buy 90 feet. But it paid off when Ryan McMahon threw away Jose Siri’s grounder, allowing Rortvedt to score the go-ahead run.
Pete Fairbanks came in to try to close it out and promptly walked the bases loaded against the top of the order. Jason Adam struck out Kris Bryant on three pitches, but McMahon found quick redemption, launching a walk-off grand slam on the first pitch he saw. 10-7 Colorado, as natural as can be.
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