Nolan Jones hit a walk-off home run into the second deck in the bottom of the ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Diego Padres 5-4 after a rain delay in Denver on Sunday.
Coco Montes homered among his two hits in his major league debut and Ezequiel Tovar and Ryan McMahon also went deep for Colorado.The Rockies trailed 4-3 entering the ninth, and with a heavy rain falling McMahon led off with his 10th homer, a shot off Tom Cosgrove. The game then went into a 1 hour, 25-minute delay. After play resumed Brent Honeywell got the first two batters before Jones smacked a 472-foot homer.
Colorado took advantage when Snell left the game. Jones led off the eighth with an infield single and Montes homered to tie it. With the rain picking up, the Padres went ahead in the ninth when Ha-Seong Kim scored on a wild pitch by Justin Lawrence to make it 4-3.The Padres tied it in the third inning when starter Dinelson Lamet's errant pickoff throw to first allowed Tatis to advance to third, and he scored on Juan Soto's sacrifice fly.Lamet gave up three runs and six hits over five innings. He struck out five and walked three.
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