Rockies 7; Giants 4
Rookie Elehuris Montero homered twice and drove in five runs behind the effective work of his Dominican countryman Jose Urena as the Colorado Rockies snapped a five-game losing streak with a 7-4 win over the San Francisco Giants on Friday.
Connor Joe also homered while Wynton Bernard and Jose Iglesias each had back-to-back doubles at the start of Colorado’s four-run drive. The loss was San Francisco’s third in a row.
An unprecedented event is recorded in the game and throughout the weekend series. Three of the four umpires on the field are Venezuelan.
Manny González, Carlos Torres and Edwin Moscoso collaborated with Chris Conroy in the meeting.
Ureña (2-4), who joined the Rockies on a minor league contract in May after the Milwaukee Brewers made him transferable, pitched six 2/3 innings, allowing three hits, two of them to Joc Peterson.
After getting a single in the first inning, Pederson hit a solo home run with two outs in the sixth. As he rounded third base he turned toward the Giants’ dugout and performed an NFL quarterback Cam Newton-style move, reaching both arms to his right.
Alex Wood (8-10) allowed seven hits and seven runs in 4 2/3 innings, including three homers for Colorado, which ended a five-game homer drought.
Montero, who was among the prospects acquired in a February 2021 trade in which Nolan Arenado was traded to St. Louis, hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the second and a three-run homer in the fifth. for his first game with at least two homers.
Joe hit a solo home run in the fourth inning.
For the Rockies, Cuban José Iglesias 4-1, one run scored, one produced. Dominican Elehuris Montero 4-2, two runs scored, 5 RBIs.
For the Giants, Venezuelan Wilmer Flores 4-1.
Cardinals 5; D-Backs 1
Miles Mikolas was dominant through eight innings, Paul Goldschmidt hit his 30th homer of the season and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-1 on Friday night.
Nolan Arenado added three doubles and a single, while Puerto Rican veteran catcher Yadier Molina added three hits, his most in the season, and scored a run.
Goldschmidt also had three hits. He hit 30 homers for the seventh time in his career — four with Arizona before being traded to St. Louis.
Mikolas (10-9) allowed just one hit in seven shutout innings before Arizona scored once in the eighth. The right-hander allowed two hits, gave away a walk, hit a pitch and distributed four strikeouts.
He threw 108 pitches, of which 70 were strikes. The Cardinals stretched their lead over Milwaukee atop the NL Central to four games.
The pitcher defeated was Tommy Henry (2-2).
For the Cardinals, the Dominican Albert Pujols 3-0. Puerto Rican Molina 4-3 with a run scored.
For the Diamondbacks, Puerto Rican Emmanuel Rivera 3-1. The Dominicans Sergio Alcántara 3-1 with a run scored, Geraldo Perdomo 3-0 with an RBI.
Orioles 15 Red Sox 10
Anthony Santander hit one of the Orioles’ five home runs and drove in four runs in a batting duel in which Baltimore beat the Boston Red Sox 15-10 on Friday.
Jorge Mateo, Adley Rutschman, Ryan Mountcastle and Ramón Urías also homered for the Orioles, who had combined to score three runs in their previous two games, both lost.
This time, the Orioles scored three runs in the second inning, three more in the third, four in the fourth and five in the fifth, after the Red Sox closed within 10-9 in the fifth. Baltimore’s 15 runs are the most he has scored on the season.
The teams combined for 37 hits. The Red Sox outscored the Orioles 19-18 in this category.
But none of Boston’s hits went out of the park, while all but one of Baltimore’s homers came from at least one man. Mateo got the Orioles going with a two-out, three-run shot to left field off Kutter Crawford (3-5), making it 3-2.
Baltimore moved within a game and a half of Tampa Bay for the final wild-card spot in the AL.
Nick Vespi (5-0), the Orioles’ third pitcher of six, got the win, giving up one run in one inning.
For the Red Sox, Puerto Rican Enrique Hernández 5-2 with two RBIs. Rafael Devers 5-0 with a run scored.
For the Orioles, Venezuelans Anthony Santander 5-3 with three runs scored and four RBIs, Rougned Odor 4-0 with one RBI. The Mexican Ramón Urías 4-2 with two runs scored and one produced. And the Dominican Jorge Mateo 5-1 with a run scored and three RBIs.