Rockies’ Jimenez wins club-record 18th
DENVER (AP)—Ubaldo Jimenez(notes) won his club-record 18th game despite a wildperformance and the surging Colorado Rockies rallied from a four-run deficit tobeat the Cincinnati Reds 10-5 Monday.
Even though he leads the National League in victories, Jimenez (18-6),hadn’t won since Aug. 4. He snapped a personal four-game losing streak eventhough he didn’t have his usual command of his fastball and struggled through a123-pitch effort.
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He allowed seven hits and matched a season high with six walks, one of themintentional, threw a wild pitch and hit a batter in six innings.
The Reds’ lead in the NL Central was cut to six games over St. Louis, whichbeat Milwaukee 8-6.
Troy Tulowitzki(notes) homered, tripled and drove in three runs for the Rockies.
Reds rookie sensation Aroldis Chapman(notes) hit 102 mph on the stadium radar gunand struck out Tulowitzki. But the Rockies nicked Chapman for three hits duringa three-run sixth that made it 8-4.
After giving up four runs in the third inning, Jimenez stranded 11 Redsthrough the sixth. The Rockies finally gave him some run support in winningtheir fourth straight game against division leaders—they just took three fromSan Diego over the weekend, their first sweep on the road this season.
Tulowitzki broke a 4-all tie in the fifth when he sent a fastball from BillBray(notes) (0-2) halfway up the left-field bleachers.
In the fourth, Tulowitzki followed NL batting leader Carlos Gonzalez’s(notes)bases-loaded, broken-bat, two-run double down the right-field line with atwo-run, standup triple to left-center as the Rockies quickly erasedCincinnati’s four-run cushion.
Jimenez was lifted for pinch-hitter Chris Nelson(notes) in the sixth and Nelsonsingled, bringing on Chapman. His 99 mph heater was stroked up the middle byEric Young(notes) Jr. for an RBI single that made it 6-4.
Dexter Fowler’s(notes) hard shot knocked down shortstop Paul Janish(notes), whose errantthrow to second base allowed Nelson to score to make it 7-4. Ryan Hanigan’s(notes)passed ball allowed another run across before Chapman tied up Tulowitzki with aninside heater for strike three.
The Reds batted around in the third inning, scoring four times on five hitsand two walks. Drew Stubbs(notes) scored from third on Brandon Phillips’(notes) groundout,Chris Heisey(notes) followed with an RBI single and Jonny Gomes(notes) added a two-run singleto make it 4-0.
Jimenez, who let out a big sigh of relief after striking out Stubbs with his31st pitch of the inning to strand the bases full, drew a one-out walk in thebottom half of the inning, when the Rockies got all four runs back.
The Reds stranded also stranded the bases loaded in the fourth and the sixthand left runners at the corners in the fifth.
For a while this summer, it seemed like Jimenez would obliterate thefranchise mark of 17 wins set by Kevin Ritz in 1996 and tied by Pedro Astacio in’99 and Jeff Francis(notes) in ’07. But after winning 15 games before the All-Starbreak, Jimenez had been stuck on 17 wins for more than a month, victimized bypoor run support and spotty defense.
In his five previous starts, he was 0-4 despite a 3.00 ERA and he receivedzero or one run of support in four of those five games.
“I think maybe if you want to get right down to it, we’ve been trying toohard to get the damn thing for him,” Colorado manager Jim Tracy said before thegame. “We haven’t scored for the guy.”
Notes: Gonzalez extended his hitting streak to a career-best 14 games with afirst-inning double and finished 3 for 5, raising his batting average to .340.
NOTES: Francis (left arm) threw 48 pitches Sunday at Triple-A ColoradoSprings and is slated to join Colorado’s bullpen later this week. … TheRockies called up C Mike McKenry from Colorado Springs. … The Reds are twowins shy of ending their nine-year string of losing seasons. … The Rockiesbegan a stretch in which 16 of 22 games are at Coors Field, where they’re 13-4since July 29.
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