SAN DIEGO — Charlie Blackmon turned, resigned and offered his back as a sacrifice. You could almost hear him sigh. The Rockies are running to nowhere.
In the fourth inning Saturday, with two runners on, Troy Tulowitzki lined a single to right field. Blackmon rounded third base and got a stop sign from his coach. DJ LeMahieu kept chugging from second. And the Rockies had two runners at the same corner.
Blackmon could only give up. Two runners. One base. One ugly out.
The Rockies continued their circus of baserunning at Petco Park and the Padres wrangled two home runs to top Colorado again, 5-4.