Rockies sweep Blue Jays to conclude dominant homestand

Make it eight wins in a row for the Colorado Rockies who swept the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afternoon with a 5-1 victory to conclude a 9-1 homestand.

Now, they are on a 100-win pace since their 3-12 start to the season.

Antonio Senzatela built on his last quality outing with another fantastic perforomance in this one.

He pitched around the little trouble he did face, rolling with a few tough breaks to put up six innings of one-run baseball.

Colorado will take that line from him every time.

Much like game two of the series, Toronto came out swinging early, hoping to make the most of early strikes. Eric Sogard and Vladimir Guerrero, Jr. singled on the first pitch to start the first against Senzatela.

One batter later, Justin Smoak hit a grounder to first base; Murphy made a throw to the plate, but Sogard slide in safe. Senzatela would walk Cavan Biggio, but work around the one-out, bases loaded jam.

Rockies responded with a run in each of the first three innings. David Dahl singled in his first at bat and was followed by Nolan Arenado who had his own to extend his hitting streak to 13 games. Daniel Murphy laced a single to score Dahl and tie the game at one all.

In the second, Senzatela helped himself with a two-out walk that would spark a rally supported by Raimel Tapia, whose single gave him a 12-game hit streak, and Dahl who doubled home the go ahead run.

In the third, Ryan McMahon would walk and score on Chris Iannetta’s double over the center fielder’s head, stumbling and falling around second in a humorous moment since he didn’t hurt himself and still crossed the plate in plenty of time.

Senzatela, meanwhile, was cruising on the mound, allowing just two singles and facing one batter over the minimum possible from the second through the fifth.

He did walk a pair in the sixth but it didn’t phase him. He punctuated his fine day at the park with a couple of big punchouts to escape the jam.

Iannetta added another in the bottom of the sixth, turning on an inside fastball and blasting it 476 feet onto the concourse beyond the left-field bleachers.

That gave Chad Bettis a three-run lead to protect in the seventh. He did give up a leadoff single but got three quick outs in succession to keep the score where it was.

Arenado gave the Rockies some insurance in the seventh by unleashing one into the top row in left for his 16th home run of the season.

Mike Dunn walked the leadoff hitter in the eighth but bounced back two flyball outs before making way for Jairo Diaz who struck out Brandon Drury to end the inning.

Bryan Shaw came on for the ninth and struck out the side to secure the win and the sweep.