Reynolds' 250th career HR lifts Rockies past Padres
SAN DIEGO -- Mark Reynolds led off the top of the 10th inning with the 250th homer of his career to give the Colorado Rockies a split of their four-game series with a 3-2 victory over the San Diego Padres on Sunday at Petco Park.
Reynolds' 370-foot drive off reliever Kevin Quackenbush reached the second row of seats in left. His 13th homer of the season came on a 2-2 pitch.
Left-handed reliever Jake McGee (2-3) picked up the win for the Rockies. Right-handed reliever Adam Ottavino secured his fourth save on the season and his second in the series.
Center fielder Charlie Blackmon staked the Rockies to a 2-0 lead with his 25th homer in the fourth inning and a RBI single in the fifth. The Padres tied the score with two runs in the bottom of the sixth against Rockies starter Chad Bettis to end the right-hander's scoreless innings streak at 14.
Both starting pitchers - right-hander Edwin Jackson of the Padres and Bettis - took no-hitters into the fourth inning and Jackson was perfect. But that ended abruptly in the Rockies' fourth.
Blackmon opened the inning by driving a 1-2 high slider from Jackson 386 feet into the right-field seats.
DJ LeMahieu followed with a single to extend his streak of reaching base to a career-high 28 straight games and Jackson later issued a two-out walk to David Dahl before retiring Reynolds on a deep fly to center to end the inning.
Blackmon was back at it again in the fifth as the Rockies extended their lead to 2-0.
Former Padres catcher Nick Hundley opened the inning with a double and scored on Blackmon's two-out single to right.
Jackson departed with the Padres trailing 2-0. He had given up both runs on five hits and a walk with four strikeouts in six innings.
Bettis cruised through his first five frames, extending his scoreless innings streak to 14 straight.
Alex Dickerson drew a lead-off walk in the second and was the Padres' only baserunner until Yangervis Solarte singled with one out in the fourth. Those were the only two runners allowed by Bettis until the sixth.
With one out, Travis Jankowski lined a double to left-center. Wil Myers followed with a RBI triple to right-center and scored on Solarte's sacrifice fly to center. After retiring 16 of the first 18 hitters he faced, Bettis gave up his two-run lead in a span of three Padres' hitters.
Bettis departed after seven innings, allowing the two runs on four hits and a walk with five strikeouts.
Rockies second baseman LeMahieu kept the game tied in the bottom of the eighth when he made a leaping catch of pinch-hitter Hector Sanchez's line drive toward right with two on and two out. LeMahieu was playing short right on the play in a Rockies' defensive shift.
The Padres stranded a runner on second in each of the last three innings.
NOTES: Both starting pitchers Sunday - Rockies RHP Chad Bettis (complete game) and Padres RHP Edwin Jackson (seven innings) - threw scoreless baseball in their last starts. Both took no-hitters into the fourth Sunday. ... The Rockies are the only team in the majots with a positive run differential (plus-17) and a losing record (69-74). ... The Padres' Triple-A team in El Paso advanced to the Pacific Coast League championship series Saturday night with a 5-4 win at Tacoma. ... All six Padres' runs Saturday night came on two-out hits. The Padres are fourth in the majors this season with a .253 average with two outs and runners in scoring position. ... The Padres are now 5-18 on Sundays, 13-33 in day games and 10-35 in series finales.