Another blown lead by beleaguered reliever Bryan Shaw. Another mostly anemic performance by the offense.
And yet once again, the on-fire Rockies found a way to win, this time via Ian Desmond’s two-out, two-run walk-off home run to defeat San Diego, 4-3, Thursday afternoon and win the three-game series at Coors Field. Desmond rocketed a 1-0 split-finger fastball from Kirby Yates over the left field wall, scoring Trevor Story, who had singled and stole second.
With Bud Black’s most reliable bullpen pitchers unavailable — Seunghwan Oh, Adam Ottavino and Scott Oberg had all thrown in the first two games of the series — the Rockies’ manager had no choice but to call upon one of the unit’s struggling arms trying to protect a 2-1 lead in the seventh.