NEW YORK-
Willy Taveras got five of Colorado’s season-high 20 hits and the Rockies snapped out of an offensive drought Wednesday with an 11-5 rout of the New York Mets.
Todd Helton had four hits and three RBIs and John Mabry added a three-run homer. The Rockies salvaged the victory after managing just one run in each of the first two games of the series against the Mets.
Jose Reyes had two doubles and two singles for New York. He would’ve had a fifth hit, too, but Taveras sprinted into the left-center field gap and caught Reyes’ first-inning drive near the wall.
Josh Fogg (1-1) retired the first nine New York batters and contributed a pair of singles. He scored twice as the Rockies roughed up Mike Pelfrey (0-2).
Fogg took a shutout into the sixth inning, a turnaround from his last start when he was tagged for 11 hits and eight runs in just three innings against San Diego.
The Rockies pushed across a run in the first when Troy Tulowitzki walked, stole second and scored on Helton’s bloop single to center.
Colorado then tagged Pelfrey for five runs in the third, bunching four singles for two runs before Mabry broke open the game with his home run.
Fogg opened the inning with a single and Taveras beat out a bunt, setting up RBI singles by Matt Holliday and Helton. Mabry then hit his first home run—it was just the eighth all season for the Rockies, the lowest total in the major leagues.
The five runs in one inning were more than Colorado has scored in any game in the last week. The Rockies had scored more than five runs in a game just five times in 21 games before Wednesday
Colorado was back for more in the fourth against reliever Aaron Sele. Again, Fogg opened with a single and Taveras beat out another bunt. The runners moved up on a sacrifice before Holliday drove in two runs with a single, and Helton’s double made it 9-0.
In the fifth, Brad Hawpe opened with a double and scored on Taveras’ two-out single. Helton doubled in the sixth and scored on a single by Mabry.
The Mets scored in the sixth on a two-out, three-run double by Shawn Green. Endy Chavez hit a two-run double in the ninth.
Notes: SS Tulowitzki made a diving catch to rob Ramon Castro of a hit in the third. … Pelfrey allowed six runs and eight hits in three innings. … Castro was thrown out trying to score on pinch-hitter Damion Easley’s two-out double in the fifth. … The 11 runs matched a season-high for the Rockies.
