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The Yankees were a tripleheader of hot on Saturday.
Mark Reynolds was cut by the Colorado Rockies two home runs shy of 300 after hitting .170 with four homers and 20 RBIs in limited at-bats.
Saturday was a scorcher across the major leagues, with many teams forgoing batting practice and with ballparks deploying misters in an attempt to keep fans cool.
The Yankees are as hot as the weather, torching Colorado pitching for the second straight day.
Edwin Encarnacion hit a go-ahead, grand slam, a trio of ex-Rockies beat up on their former team and the New York Yankees defeated Colorado 8-2 Friday night.
All-Star outfielder David Dahl was a late scratch by the Colorado Rockies for a series opener Friday night against the New York Yankees due to a bruised left foot.
Donovan Solano had four hits, including a tie-breaking home run leading off the sixth inning, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Rockies 11-8 on Wednesday to complete a four-game series sweep, their first at Colorado in nearly eight years.
Alex Dickerson had a career-best four hits, including the go-ahead RBI single in San Francisco's four-run 10th inning as the Giants recovered from blowing a three-run lead in the ninth to beat the Colorado Rockies 8-4 on Tuesday night.
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Brandon Crawford homered three times and drove in nine runs over the course of two games Monday, and the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 2-1 in the nightcap to complete a sweep of a split doubleheader.
Brandon Crawford went 5-for-6 with two homers and tied a San Francisco team record with eight RBIs, and the Giants scored a season high in runs in a 19-2 rout of the Rockies on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader.
Before today, German Marquez had never allowed more than eight runs, earned or otherwise, in any big-league appearance, and he had never failed to complete the third inning in any start. Today: 2 2/3 innings, 10 runs (plus has an inherited runner still on base).
The first-half rankings have been a two-team tango at the top, but the Bombers could be ready to cut in on Houston and L.A.
Ryan McMahon singled, doubled, tripled and drove in three runs as the Colorado Rockies outslugged the Cincinnati Reds 10-9 on Sunday.
Derek Dietrich, Yasiel Puig, and Curt Casale homered and the Cincinnati Reds put together five-run outbursts in the sixth and seventh innings to rally past the Colorado Rockies 17-9 on Saturday night in a game delayed more than three hours at the...
Daniel Murphy hit a go-ahead solo shot in the eighth for his first homer at Coors Field as a member of the Rockies and Colorado rallied for a 3-2 win over Cincinnati Reds on Friday night that snapped a six-game skid.
| TEAM | W | L | PCT | GB | STRK |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles | 67 | 35 | .657 | - | W3 |
| Arizona | 50 | 50 | .500 | 16 | L2 |
| San Francisco | 50 | 50 | .500 | 16 | W1 |
| Colorado | 47 | 52 | .475 | 18.5 | W1 |
| San Diego | 47 | 52 | .475 | 18.5 | W1 |
