DENVER – For more than 2 1/2 months, Torey Lovullo has regularly tested the bounds of his starting pitchers’ endurance, almost always to great effect. He has asked them for one more out or one more inning, even when it has appeared they might not have it in them, and they have managed to come through nearly every time.
On Tuesday night at Coors Field, he asked his ace for one more inning, and Zack Greinke could not deliver. With one out in the eighth, Greinke allowed three consecutive hits, the dagger coming in the form of Nolan Arenado’s go-ahead, two-run triple, and the Colorado Rockies came away with a 4-3 victory, becoming the first team in 11 days to hand a loss to the Diamondbacks.