Colorado also ended the game with 8 straight hits — which no team has done in decades<\/p>\n\n\n\n
DENVER \u2013\u00a0Jake McCarthy\u00a0came to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, the bases loaded, with a chance to get the Colorado Rockies back in the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
He did more than give them a chance \u2013 his bases-clearing triple delivered a\u00a03-2 walk-off win\u00a0against Aroldis Chapman, one of the best closers in baseball.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cThat was surreal. It still hasn\u2019t sunk in,\u201d said McCarthy, soaked after a Powerade shower from his teammates. \u201cOff a great pitcher like that, it all happened pretty fast.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
McCarthy became the sixth player in the Divisional Era (since 1969) to hit a walk-off triple when trailing by two runs, and the first since Grady Sizemore in 2006.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Walk-off triples when trailing by 2 runs, Divisional Era (1969):<\/strong> The Rockies finished the game with seven straight singles before McCarthy’s triple. They’re the first team since at least 1961 \u2014 the Expansion Era \u2014 with hits in each of their final eight plate appearances of a game, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEight straight hits to end the ballgame against two world-class pitchers, [Garrett] Whitlock and Chapman,\u201d manager Warren Schaeffer said. \u201cThey don\u2019t quit. We\u2019ve been saying it all year: we fight till the end, and tonight we got rewarded for it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Colorado couldn\u2019t muster a run through eight innings but used the dramatic rally to overcome a dominant six innings by Boston rookie Jake Bennett. He struck out nine and didn\u2019t walk a batter, controlling the Rockies through 72 pitches and outdueling\u00a0Ryan Feltner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cThe starter was humming tonight. He was really good,\u201d McCarthy said of Bennett. \u201cHe had a couple of fastballs that played at the top, he mixed in his offspeed \u2013 that guy\u2019s really good. It was a good sign to see him get out of the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Neither pitcher gave up a run through five innings but the Red Sox got to Feltner for two runs in the sixth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The right-hander had a shaky start \u2013 he walked three of the first seven batters he faced \u2013 before settling in and retiring 13 in a row ahead of Boston\u2019s two-out rally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cHe was outstanding,\u201d Schaeffer said. \u201cHe settled in, started pounding the strike zone. It was great.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n It looked like Feltner would take the loss after Colorado squandered a chance in the eighth. With one out the Rockies hit four straight singles off Whitlock but were still trailing 2-0 after Edouard Julien was thrown out at home and Willi Castro was cut down at second to end the inning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But their resiliency came through in the ninth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n TJ Rumfield, the NL Rookie of the Month in May, started the rally with a single to left on an 0-2 count. Hunter Goodman followed with another single and rookie Cole Carrigg bunted up the third-base line, beating the throw to first.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cYou saw the inning before, what was it, five straight line drives off a good pitcher?\u201d McCarthy said. \u201cRumfield staying on a slider when a guy’s throwing 101 mph, Goody, Carrig getting the bunt down \u2013 two of them are rookies. Those are poised at-bats. If they roll over and die I don\u2019t even get an at-bat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n McCarthy, who had an\u00a0inside-the-park home run\u00a0Saturday night against Pittsburgh, lined a 99.6 mph sinker past the diving Caleb Durbin at third base. The ball bounced off the wall and eluded Jarren Duran as Carrigg raced around the bags and easily scored to give Colorado a walk-off win.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI was watching from the training room,\u201d Feltner said. \u201cIt was super cool to see us string those hits together. The bunt by Carrigg was hug, and Jake finishing it off with that hit down the line, it was a pretty sweet way to end the game.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Colorado also ended the game with 8 straight hits — which no team has done in decades DENVER \u2013\u00a0Jake McCarthy\u00a0came to the plate in the bottom of the ninth, the bases loaded, with a chance to get the Colorado Rockies back in the game. 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6\/22\/26 Jake McCarthy
8\/11\/06 Grady Sizemore
9\/26\/87 Juan Ben\u00edquez
4\/14\/80 Dave Collins
9\/3\/71 Manny Mota
5\/29\/71 Joe Torre<\/p>\n\n\n\n