Arizona 8, Colorado 2
When: 10:10 PM ET, Thursday, March 29, 2018
Where: Chase Field, Phoenix, Arizona
Temperature:
82°
Umpires:
Home -
Gary Cederstrom, 1B -
Eric Cooper, 2B -
Cory Blaser, 3B -
Stu Scheurwater
Attendance:
48703
By Field Level Media
Arizona's Jake Lamb had two hits and four RBIs, and Jarrod Dyson contributed two hits and two runs in the Diamondbacks' 8-2 victory over the visiting Colorado Rockies in the regular-season opener for both teams on Thursday at Chase Field.
Lamb had a two-run double in a three-run first inning off right-hander Jon Gray, and he added a two-run single in a three-run sixth to give the Diamondbacks a 6-2 lead. Lamb has nine career RBIs on Opening Day, breaking Luis Gonzalez's franchise record of seven.
Dyson beat out a bunt single and was part of a double steal in the sixth inning, when Arizona got only one ball out of the infield while scoring three runs. In a two-run seven, Dyson hit an RBI triple and scored on Deven Marrero's single to make it 8-2.
Arizona left-hander Patrick Corbin (1-0) gave up two runs on bases-empty homers by DJ LeMahieu and Nolan Arenado while winning his first career Opening Day start. He gave up seven hits, struck out eight and walked one in 5 2/3 innings.
Gray (0-1) gave up six hits and three runs in four-plus innings in his first Opening Day start. He struck out four and walked three. Gray allowed four runs in a career-short 1 1/3 innings in an 11-8 loss in the NL wild-card playoff game at Chase Field last Oct. 4.
LeMahieu homered as the second batter of the game to give the Rockies a 1-0 lead. LeMahieu has 15 hits and four homers off Corbin in 40 career-at bats.
The Diamondbacks scored three runs in their half of the first inning.
David Peralta and A.J. Pollock opened with singles, and Paul Goldschmidt walked on a 3-2 pitch to load the bases. Lamb doubled to the base of the center field fence, driving in two runs, and Goldschmidt scored on Alex Avila's one-one groundout to make it 3-1.
Arenado's bases-empty homer in the sixth inning cut the Diamondbacks' lead to 3-2.
Arizona right-hander Archie Bradley entered with runners on first and second and one out in the seventh inning and got a double-play grounder to preserve a 6-2 lead. He pitched a 1-2-3 eighth.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Colorado
|
9 |
2 |
15 |
.273 |
14 |
12 |
2 |
2 |
0 |
0 |
Arizona
|
12 |
0 |
16 |
.333 |
28 |
11 |
8 |
6 |
2 |
0 |