SAN DIEGO_Charlie Blackmon ran into a third-inning fastball. Jon Jay ran into crucial out at third base. Then Tyler Chatwood kept running around the bases, his two-run triple in the seventh inning giving him just the cushion he needed to pitch the Colorado Rockies to a 4-1 win over the San Diego Padres on Friday night in front of 25,015 at Petco Park.
Alex Dickerson blasted his ninth homer in the second inning but the Padres' supporting cast mustered little else to back Luis Perdomo's bid for a bounce-back start.
After allowing five runs in six innings on the heels of his first complete game, the 23-year-old rookie was chased in the seventh inning on Friday, with Chatwood's seventh-inning drive eluding Travis Jankowski as he made a last-ditch effort to dive for the ball before it split the right-center alley.
No dice.
The ball rolled to the wall, the runners on first and second scored easily and Chatwood ended up on third base with a triple that chased Perdomo from a 4-1 game.
Perdomo's only other mistake was the two-run homer that Blackmon ripped to the right in the third inning, the immediate answer to Dickerson's second-inning solo job.
The Rule 5 rookie struck out four and allowed four runs on eight hits and a walk in 6 2/3 innings. He threw 70 of his 103 pitches for strikes.
Chatwood didn't allow much else outside Dickerson's home run until Luis Sardina's double off the center field wall chased the double-Tommy John survivor with two outs in the seventh.
In fact, the 26-year-old right-hander had allowed only two hits when Jay singled to lead off the sixth inning in a 2-1 game.
Jay aggressively rounded second base on Wil Myers' chopper toward shortstop and looked to wind up on third only to have first baseman Mark Reynolds easily complete the unorthodox 6-3-5 double play after fielding Daniel Descalso's throw at first.
Yangervis Solarte's ensuing single to left made the base-running gaffe sting all that much more, although it was likely hit too hard to score Jay had he stayed at second base.
The next inning, Jake McGee retired pinch-hitter Brett Wallace on a grounder to short to strand Sardinas' two-out double and leave Chatwood with a tidy pitching line: 6 2/3 innings, five hits, one run, three walks and five strikeouts.
Colorado's bullpen then shut down the Padres over the final two innings to preserve the win.
