The Rockies signed Kris Bryant to a seven-year, $182 million megadeal this offseason with the expectation that he could routinely put the club on his shoulders and carry Colorado to victory.
That hadn’t been the case until Friday, when Bryant lived up to that billing with his first multi-homer game with the Rockies. The performance paced Colorado to a 6-5 win over Arizona in Game 2 of the series at Chase Field.
“That’s the Kris Bryant that I’ve seen in the past, and I think that’s the Kris Bryant that he sees himself as,” manager Bud Black said.