Austin Gomber has quietly become the Rockies’ stopper.
With the rest of Colorado’s projected rotation on the injured list, Gomber delivered big-time in Colorado’s 7-2 victory over the Yankees Friday night. He mostly shut down the New Yorkers for six innings and quieted their fans, who made up the bulk of the sellout crowd of 47,865 at Coors Field.
And it was the Rox, not the guys from the Bronx, who hit bombs. Randal Grichuk led off the fourth with a solo homer, Kris Bryant hit a two-run homer in the seventh and rookie Nolan Jones launched a two-out, 469-foot solo blast in the eighth.