Anto­nio Sen­za­tela des­per­ate­ly need­ed a bounce-back per­for­mance Saturday.

The Rock­ies pitch­er, less than a week removed from a six-run shel­lack­ing at the Dodgers, respond­ed against the Padres with one of his best out­ings of the season.

And, despite anoth­er shaky bullpen per­for­mance, Col­orado escaped with a 4–3 walk-off vic­to­ry when pinch-hit­ter Daniel Mur­phy blast­ed an RBI sin­gle in the bot­tom of the ninth scor­ing out­field­er Gar­rett Hampson.

Sen­za­tela pitched sev­en shutout innings, short­stop Trevor Sto­ry extend­ed his hit­ting streak to nine games and the Rock­ies went back above .500 (17–16).

Sen­za­tela kept the Padres’ bats down with 11 ground­outs, three fly­outs, three strike­outs and just one walk. The Rock­ies man­aged to win Sat­ur­day despite the fact that third base­man Nolan Are­na­do and out­field­er Char­lie Black­mon com­bined to go 1‑for‑8 at the plate and left a com­bined sev­en run­ners on base.

The bot­tom of the Rock­ies’ line­up jump­start­ed their ear­ly offense. With the game score­less in the bot­tom of the third, first base­man Josh Fuentes dou­bled on a line dri­ve to cen­ter. Catch­er Tony Wolters fol­lowed with a sin­gle to left, and two bat­ters lat­er, Sto­ry drove Fuentes home on a sin­gle to cen­ter. Col­orado led 1–0.

Run sup­port wouldn’t arrive until the sev­enth inning when Hamp­son drove a ball that ric­o­cheted into the air off third base — allow­ing Bren­dan Rodgers enough time to beat the throw home. With two outs, Rock­ies out­field­er Raimel Tapia sin­gled on a ground ball to left that scored pinch-run­ner Ryan McMa­hon. Colorado’s advan­tage grew to 3–0.

Col­orado turned to relief pitch­er Car­los Estevez in the eighth inning. With two outs, plus run­ners on first and third, Padres sec­ond base­man Jake Cro­nen­worth dou­bled to deep right — scor­ing Tatis and Macha­do. On the next at-bat, San Diego out­field­er Wil Myers sin­gled to cen­ter and his RBI tied the game at 3–3.

Pitch­er Daniel Bard entered for Col­orado in the ninth and earned the win after he forced a ground­out dou­ble-play and end­ed the frame with three con­sec­u­tive strikes to Trent Grisham. The Rock­ies’ walk-off win­ner from Hamp­son, the team’s first of this sea­son, was giv­en up by San Diego clos­er Craig Stammen.

The Rock­ies-Padres series con­tin­ues with Game 3 at 1:10 p.m. Sunday.