PHILADELPHIA – Wilin Rosario hit a go-ahead, three-run homer, and Jorge De La Rosa pitched six strong innings to lift the Colorado Rockies to a 6-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Tuesday night.
Drew Stubbs went 2-for-4 with a double and a run batted in for the Rockies, who had lost four of five while being outscored 16-0 in their two previous games.
Ben Revere hit his first career homer in his 1,466th at-bat, and Darin Ruf also went deep for the Phillies.
The start of the game was delayed 1 hour, 22 minutes because of rain.
De La Rosa (6-3) continued his strong stretch, allowing one run and six hits with four strikeouts and two walks. The left-hander is 6-0 with a 1.58 earned run average in his last seven starts.
Philadelphia starter Cole Hamels (1-3) was cruising along until walking consecutive batters with one out in the seventh. After Justin Morneau flied out for the second out, Rosario broke out of a slump by lifting Hamels’ first pitch just over the wall in right to give Colorado a 4-1 lead. He had been 0-for-15 before the homer, his sixth in 10 career games at Citizens Bank Park.
Hamels left after the seventh after giving up four runs and three hits with four strikeouts and those two walks.
De La Rosa got out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the third when he got Revere to ground out, Rollins to pop out and Chase Utley to fly out.
Colorado got on the board first with a run in the fourth on Troy Tulowitzki’s hard-hit sacrifice fly. Tulowitzki, the NL batting leader, went 0-for-2 against Hamels.
Rockies rumpus
Rockies LF Carlos Gonzalez was lifted after the fourth inning due to a right calf contusion. He is day-to-day. . Philadelphia’s Marlon Byrd went 0-for-4 with two strikeouts, dropping him to 1 for his last 17. . LPGA golfer Gerina Piller was on hand to promote the tour’s stop this week at the ShopRite LPGA Classic in Galloway, N.J. . The three-game series concludes Wednesday night when Rockies RHP Jordan Lyles (5-1, 3.45) opposes Phillies RHP Roberto Hernandez (2-2, 3.83).
