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Adrian Gonzalez homered and matched his career-high with four RBIs and Chris Young continued his mastery of the Colorado Rockies in San Diego’s 11-1 rout Friday night.
Young (2-1), whose loss Sunday at Los Angeles snapped his major league record-tying mark of 25 straight starts on the road without a defeat, stymied the Rockies’ bats just like he did last year when he won both of his starts at Coors Field. He’s now 4-0 with a 2.65 ERA against Colorado.
This time, Young yielded just four hits, all singles, and a run in seven strong innings. He didn’t walk a batter and struck out seven. He helped his cause at the plate, reaching base three times, singling and driving in a run.
Gonzalez deposited a Josh Fogg fastball 447 feet away in the Padres’ bullpen for his fourth homer, a three-run shot in the first inning that got the Padres going.
They added a run in the second when Rockies shortstop Troy Tulowitzki mistimed his jump on Marcus Giles’ liner for an RBI single. Gonzalez came up with the bases full but struck out swinging to end the inning.
In the fourth, Giles lined an RBI single up the middle off Fogg to make it 5-1. Mike Cameron followed with the Padres’ fourth straight single, loading the bases and forcing Fogg out of the game for Matt Herges, who allowed four more runs in the inning.
Fogg (0-1) was tagged for eight runs and 11 hits in three-plus innings. Although he was making his first start in a week, he had pitched in relief of Jeff Francis on Monday night against San Francisco.
Young’s RBI groundout in the sixth made it 10-1.
LaTroy Hawkins, whose 0-3 start got him removed from the Rockies’ setup role, entered in the eighth for some work and promptly loaded the bases by allowing a single, a double and a walk. Geoff Blum grounded into a double play, scoring Russell Branyan, who had led off with a double.
The Rockies scored once in the second when Yorvit Torrealba slapped a single to right field while Giles was covering the second base bag for an apparent pick-off attempt from Young, who never spun around or stepped off the mound.
Gonzalez’s home run was the first at Coors Field since Tuesday night. No long balls were hit during the Los Angeles Dodgers’ two-game trip to Denver, marking just the fourth time since the stadium opened in 1995 that there were consecutive games without home runs. There has never been three straight homerless games at Coors Field.
Gonzalez has had four RBIs five times in his career, including April 10 against San Francisco.
All three of Colorado’s losses on this homestand have come by seven runs or more.
Notes:@ Padres C Rob Bowen had a career-best three hits and drove in a run with a groundout. … Rockies 2B Kaz Matsui, who took a month to recover from back spasms last season, said his recovery time this time should be much shorter. He went on the 15-day DL Sunday. … Giles second-inning line drive was originally ruled an error but was changed two innings later, extending his hitting streak to 10 games.
