PHOENIX -- It's not every day that a homegrown Rockies bench player wins a game with a homer. It just seems that way.
Saturday night it was Tom Murphy knocking his first home run in nearly two years -- a solo shot off D-backs righty Yoshihisa Hirano with two out in the eighth to give the Rockies their seventh straight victory, 6-5, at Chase Field.
Murphy had not homered since Sept. 21, 2016, but his shot off Hirano vaulted the Rockies over the D-backs and into second place in the National League West, one game behind the Dodgers.