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C.J. Cron also went deep and finished with two hits and five
RBIs, Brendan Rodgers had four hits on his 26th birthday, Jose
Iglesias had three hits and Elehuris Montero and Elias Diaz had
two hits each for Colorado.
The Rockies set a season high for runs and hits (22) in a game.
Paul DeJong homered for the Cardinals, who had their seven-game
winning streak snapped.
Colorado got to St. Louis starter Miles Mikolas (8-9) in the
first inning. Cron followed one-out singles by Iglesias and
Rodgers with his 23rd home run of the season to put the Rockies
ahead 3-0.
They then blew it open in the third inning.
After McMahon made the first out of the inning, the next 10
Colorado hitters reached. Grichuk and Montero singled, Grichuk
scored on a double by Diaz and Sam Hilliard singled off Mikolas
to bring home another run. Diaz was thrown out at home on the
play.
Blackmon, Iglesias and Rodgers followed with singles to bring in
two runs and Cron drove in two more with a double.
That ended the night for Mikolas, who allowed 10 runs on 14 hits
in 2 2/3 innings.
Packy Naughton, who relieved Mikolas, walked McMahon and then
gave up Grichuk's 12th home run of the season to make it 12-0.
DeJong's two-run homer off Rockies starter Ryan Feltner in the
fifth got St. Louis on the board, and the Cardinals chased
Feltner in the sixth. He gave up an RBI double to Nolan Arenado
and left after walking Lars Nootbar.
Jake Bird hit DeJong to load the bases and Andrew Kizner hit a
two-run single to make it 12-5.
Feltner (2-3) allowed five runs on four hits in 5 2/3 innings.
Colorado added two runs in the sixth, on a double by Diaz and a
groundout, and McMahon hit a two-run homer to the second deck in
right-center field in the seventh.
--Field Level Media
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