Fireworks night was, ultimately, a dud for the Rockies.
The Diamondbacks rallied for a combined eight runs in the eighth and ninth innings off a shaky Colorado bullpen and won 11-7 Saturday night, taking some of the oohs and aahs out of the big Coors Field crowd.
The Rockies, losers for just the sixth time in 28 games, didn’t completely fizzle out. They made it interesting by scoring three times in the bottom of the eighth on a two-run pinch-hit single by Seth Smith and a run-scoring single by Dexter Fowler.
But an error by Smith in left field opened the door for Felipe Lopez’s two-run single in the ninth that put the Rockies down for good.
Reliever Joel Peralta — fairly solid in late innings since Manuel Corpas went down with an elbow injury — got lit up like a Roman candle in the eighth. He gave up back-to-back doubles to Miguel Montero and Gerardo Parra as the Diamondbacks tied the game 4-all. Chris Young’s pinch-hit, bases-loaded double scored three more runs off Peralta.
Randy Flores relieved Peralta and promptly served up a two-run homer to Stephen Drew.
Rockies starter Aaron Cook, searching for his sixth consecutive victory, was in and out of trouble all night, but he hung tough and left the Rockies clinging to a 4-3 lead after his five-plus innings.
Cook left the game in the sixth after getting the wind knocked out of him while attempting to field an infielder chopper by Parra. Cook made a throwing error on the play, allowing Parra to move to third. Parra scored on Chad Tracy’s grounder to first, cutting Colorado’s lead to 4-3.
Patrick Saunders: 303-954-1428 or psaunders@denverpost.com
