Rockies take down A’s behind Senzatela’s gem

OK, OK, so it wasn’t a Game 7. Not even in the same universe.

But the Rock­ies, cling­ing to their faint play­off hopes, des­per­ate­ly need­ed a win over Oak­land Tues­day night at Coors Field. They got it, beat­ing the A’s 3–1 behind a mas­ter­ful, com­plete-game per­for­mance by Anto­nio Senzatela.

The right-han­der pitched the game of his career, and notched his first com­plete game, just when his team need­ed it the most.

A com­plete game is rare indeed in this day and age. Rar­er still for the Rock­ies. Their last pitch­er to throw a com­plete game was Ger­man Mar­quez, Senzatela’s close friend, who did so April 24, 2019 at San Fran­cis­co. Tues­day marked the first com­plete game by a Rock­ies pitch­er at Coors Field since Jon Gray on Sept. 27, 2016 vs. San Diego.

With 13 games remain­ing in the trun­cat­ed 60-game sea­son, Col­orado is 22–25 and in ninth place in the chase for the Nation­al League’s eighth and final post­sea­son berth.

Sen­za­tela, scat­tered six hits, struck out three and walked just one. His most impor­tant num­ber was 15. That’s how many outs via ground­balls Sen­za­tela induced. That shouldn’t come as shock. Since his debut in 2017, Senzatela’s 50.5 ground-ball per­cent­age ranks third in the Nation­al League (min­i­mum 400 innings pitched).

Sen­za­tela was backed up by some excel­lent defense, par­tic­u­lar­ly from sec­ond base­man Gar­rett Hamp­son. In the sev­enth, Hampson’s 24-karat play was the high­light of the game. Hamp­son dove and snarred Jon­ah Heim’s hot grounder and flipped it out of his glove to short­stop Trevor Sto­ry to start the dou­ble play.

Col­orado has been search­ing high and low for big hits and they final­ly found one from an unlike­ly source. Catch­er Elias Diaz, get­ting just his eighth start of the sea­son, ripped a two-run home run to left in the fifth off of Sean Manaea’s 2–1 curve­ball. He drove in Josh Fuentes, who led off with a single.

Diaz’s homer was not only his first of the sea­son it was the first dinger by a Rock­ies catch­er this sea­son. Com­ing into the game, Col­orado was the only team in the majors to not have at least one home run hit by a play­er at each position.

Fuentes, who has sup­plant­ed Daniel Mur­phy as the every­day first base­man, con­tin­ues to be an impact play­er. His sac­ri­fice fly to left drove in Nolan Are­na­do to boost Colorado’s lead to 3–1 in the sixth.

Oak­land man­u­fac­tured the game’s first run in the sec­ond inning, com­bin­ing a lead­off walk by Jake Lamb, a sin­gle by Ramón Lau­re­ano to advance Lamb to third and a sac­ri­fice fly by Tony Kemp to score Lamb.

But that was it for Oak­land, who ed the zeroes mount as Sen­za­tela did his thing.

Col­orado and Oak­land fin­ish off their brief two-game series on Wednes­day after­noon at Coors.

 

 

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