Gray Wolf dominates in Rockies seventh straight win

The Colorado Rockies have now won seven baseball games in a row and are three games above .500 after a series-clinching win over the Toronto Blue Jays at Coors Field on Saturday night.

They have lost one of their last nine series’.

Jon Gray, the Wolf of Blake Street, was absolutely spectacular, pitching his best game of the season, allowing just two hits and no runs over six-and-two-thirds innings.

It was his fourth quality start in his last five games.

Colorado got on the board in the first thanks to a trio of one-out singles.

Trevor Story got it started with a liner to center and David Dahl followed with a groundball back up the middle to put runners at the corners.

The King of RBI, Nolan Arenado, did the thing he does best in the next at-bat, driving in a run with another solid single to left.

Daniel Murphy brought them both in with a double on a line drive that evaded Jonathan Davis in center, scoring two more to make it 3-0.

Because Gray was cruising, that is where the score remained until a fascimating play in the bottom of the fifth.

Tapia, batting with one away, ripped a grounder back up the middle and stretched it into a double with his speed. Clearly concerned about that, Davis hurried his pickup and miffed it. Tapia took off for third and was going to be in easily but Davis tried to throw him out anyway and the ball skipped away from his third baseman.

Tapia was awarded home as the ball bounced into the dugout, making it all the way around the bases on a ball he hit on the ground.

The Blue Jays had just one base hit to that point and it was an infield single. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. got the first solid hit for them in the top of the sixth, a groundball double inside the first-base bag.

But that didn’t bother Gray a bit. He stranded him there with a little help on a diving catch by Dahl in right field.

He didn’t run into trouble again until walking a pair after striking out the first two hitters of the seventh inning.

With his pitch count finally catching up to him, Bud Black decided to remove Gray for Jairo Diaz who got a quick grounder to third to end the inning.

Carlos Estevez worked the eighth, getting a couple of easy fly outs and striking out Guerrero on three fastballs.

He stayed on for the ninth and gave up a solo home run to Justin Smoak, blowing the shutout but bounced back for a strikeout and a weak grounder out in front of the plate.

The game stayed alive on a throwing error from Story. Estevez appeared to have Danny Jensen struck out but didn’t get the call before leaving one over the plate that he hammered for a double off the wall in right to make it a 4-2 game.

Bud Black went to Scott Oberg who fell behind Rowdy Tellez 2-0 but came back to even the count before getting a weak grounder to first to secure the save and the win.