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Home runs power Rockies to three-game sweep of Padres

The Rockies, finally, plugged into their power supply at Coors Field. The result was a three-game sweep of the formally red-hot San Diego Padres.

Manager Bud Black has been prodding — pleading? cajoling? — for his players to hit more home runs. With good reason.

Through the seventh inning of Tuesday night’s loss to Cleveland, the Rockies had suffered through a drought of 266 consecutive plate appea . . .