Getting your player ready...
Carlos Gonzalez homered for the third straight game and the fifth time in seven home games. He has 20 homers and 14 stolen bases, making him one of three major-leaguers — the Cardinals’ Albert Pujols and Cleveland’s Chin-Soo Choo are the others — to lead his team in home runs and stolen bases.
Helping hand.
Dexter Fowler threw out Geovany Soto trying to stretch a single in the third, Fowler’s first outfield assist of the season. He had five in 2009.
If at first.
The victory was the Rockies’ first with Brad Hawpe at first base. Hawpe had gone four starts at first without a “W.”
