Casey Schmidt hit a leadoff homer to spark the ninth innings of four runs, and San Francisco veterans held rallies by defeating Colorado Rockies 6–5 in Danver on Tuesday night.
Willy Adams also deepened and Wilmer Flores made two hits for San Francisco, which won six straight games from a run-The first team to do so since the California Angels of 1989.
The veterans entered 5–2 in the ninth, but the first domestic run of the Schmid season started the rally. Zach Agnos (0-3) ran the next two batsmen and after one force in third place, went to load the Adames again.
Heliot Ramos sacrificed from Victor Vodnik to 5–4, and Floors and Mike Yastrzamesky hit RBI singles to put forward San Francisco.
Eric Miller (3–0) excluded one for victory and Camillo Doval navigated an unstable ninth to earn his 10th savings.
Ryan McMahon and Kyle Farmer made two hits for Homard and Brenton Doyle and Hunter Goodman to Colorado, which dropped its fourth directly.
The veterans took lead in the first innings when Jung Hu Lee led Triple and scored a sacrifice fly by Adams.
Colorado tied it to another. Doyle doubled with one, and starter Kyle Harrison fanned Caston Hura, Ritter attended the center to bring home home.
McMahon gave Colorado a lead with a single homer in the fourth, and Adams tied it in the fifth with his sixth homer of the season. Rockies Starter Carson Peakwist left for Ramos after a walk, but Jake Bird kept the next three batsmen out 2–2.
Peakwist conceded two runs on four hits and scored three runs in four innings, while Harrison gave three runs on four hits and hit six in five innings.
In the fifth, the farmer’s two-out Homer was put back in front of Colorado.
Colorado led the eighth. Goodman tipped one with one and scored on Thero Estrada’s groundout. After McMahon went on, Doyle entered the center.
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