DENVER – After taking a two-hit shutout to the eighth inning against the Rockies on Saturday in Atlanta, Braves pitcher Mike Foltynewicz carried a one-hit shutout into the sixth against same team Thursday at Coors Field.
In both cases, the next three batters reached base, and both times all ended up scoring. This time they scored while Foltynewicz was still in the game, on one swing of Carlos Gonzalez’s bat.
Gonzalez’s mammoth three-run homer with none out in the sixth snapped a scoreless tie and sent the Rockies to a 7-3 win to open a four-game series.