How’s this for a fish story?
The Rockies led Miami 8-4 entering the ninth inning Tuesday night at Coors Field. Then the Rockies lost 9-8 when the Marlins scored five runs in the top of the inning off shaky relievers Tyler Kinley and Angel Chivilli.
Talk about the one that got away.
Kinley served up a bases-load, two-run double to Miami designated hitter Jake “Smash” Burger. Then Jesus Sanchez blasted the game-winning three-run homer off Chivilli.
Before the Rockies’ bullpen collapse, the story of the night was Ezequiel Tovar.
The Rockies’ young shortstop hit home runs in the first and second innings, added a double in the fourth, and smacked a sacrifice fly to the right-field wall in the sixth.