SAN DIEGO_For five innings, Tyler Chatwood gave chase to the no-hitter that eluded Bud Black's staffs during all his years as the San Diego Padres' skipper. The unraveling of that bid in Black's old home park ought to have at least looked familiar.
It was certainly abrupt.
Manuel Margot collected the Padres' first hit _ and run _ on his sixth-inning triple, Wil Myers followed with one-out double and Yangervis Solarte and Ryan Schimpf hit back-to-back home runs to cap a game-changing rally in a 6-2 win that spoiled Black's Petco Park homecoming.
The late rally made a winner out of right-hander Trevor Cahill after he turned in arguably his best start to date.
The 29-year-old Oceanside, Calif., native allowed only an unearned run on three hits, didn't walk a batter for the first time this year and struck out seven. Cahill had retired 15 in a row when Nolan Arenado singled to lead off the seventh inning to end his night after 89 pitches (56 strikes).
Left-hander Brad Hand struck out Carlos Gonzalez and Ian Desmond and Mark Reynolds flied out to right to quell that threat and left-hander Ryan Buchter mitigated the damage in the eighth by striking out Carlos Gonzalez with the bases loaded to preserve a 6-2 lead.
The Padres' made good on their first threat, which started innocently enough when Cahill walked to lead off the sixth.
The Padres didn't do much with the first three issued by Chatwood (5.1 IP, 5 ER). This time, Margot shot a sinking liner to center that skipped under Charlie Blackmon's glove as he attempted a sliding catch.
As the ball rolled to the wall, the only thing in doubt was whether Cahill could score from first.
He did � just barely.
Margot was even breathing down his back as he rounded third before retreating to the base to watch Cahill slide into home ahead of the relay throw.
The rally escalated quickly from there.
Myers' double sailed over Blackmon's head to easily plate Margot. Then Solarte yanked a 397-foot homer to right and Schimpf followed with a 415-foot moonshot to right-center.
Not only was the no-hit bid eviscerated, Chatwood was looking up as a 5-1 deficit as Black pulled him from the game.
The Padres' padded that lead an inning later on Cory Spangenberg's run-scoring single to left.
Colorado didn't need more than one hit to scratch across its lone run against Cahill.
Just a steal, an errant throw and a lucky bounce.
Desmond provided the former after singling to lead off the second inning. Then the Rockies' first baseman took off for second on a 1-2 breaking ball off the plate, slid into the bag as Austin Hedges' throw bounced into his back side and scurried toward third when the carom kicked into left center.
There, the ball was in no man's land, allowing Desmond to round third and score for a 1-0 lead.
