Rockies suffer sweep by Snakes, stumble into All-Star break

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And the Colorado Rockies entered the All-Star break not with a bang, but with a whimper.

Falling by a score of 5-2, they suffered their sixth straight loss and a sweep at the hands of the Arizona Diamondbacks after taking eight in a row from them.

Colorado did not record a hit against rookie lefty Alex Young in his third start in MLB. They only managed one base runner on a walk by Tony Wolters.

German Marquez pitched equally as brilliantly through the first several innings but gave up one of the most frustrating runs of his season in the third.

He struck out his counterpart but Young reached base when the breaking pitch skipped away from Wolters. He unleashed another wild pitch to allow the runner to advance and Eduardo Escobar came through with a hard grounder off the glove of Daniel Murphy at first for an RBI double.

The game stopped feeling close, if it ever really was, in the sixth.

Ketel Marte began things ominously with a walk and moved to third on a single through the right side from Escobar. On the play, Charlie Blackmon made a bad throw back in and both runners moved up a base.

Christian Walker made ’em pay with a single through the right side and another errant throw allowed the runner to get to second and both runs to score.

Nick Ahmed added a long home run over the wall in center on a mislocated pitch to make it 5-0.

Colorado finally got a base hit against reliever Yoshihisa Hirano when Trevor Story led off the seventh with an infield single. But they didn’t really make solid contact until the eighth.

Ryan McMahon produced a one-out single back up the middle and Chris Iannetta, who came into the game after Wolters fouled a ball off his knee, saw a pitch he liked and hammered it over the wall in left for his sixth home run of the season.

Story got Greg Holland for his 19th home run of the season in the top of the ninth but the late fireworks were too little too late for the Rockies who fall to under .500 at 44-45.