Colorado Rockies history: Jon Gray strikes out 16 San Diego Padres

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In the bottom of the fourth, Charlie Blackmon would add to the Rockies 4-0 lead as he would hit a two-out RBI triple to make it 5-0 Rockies.

In the top of the fifth, the Padres would go down one-two-three as Gray would strike out two more Padres as he would strike out Amarista and Jackson to end the inning.

In the bottom of the fifth, Tom Murphy hit his second home run for the evening as he cashed in on a three run homer to bring the Rockies lead to 8-0 and bring his RBI total for the evening up to five. That homer also knocked starter Edwin Jackson out of the game.

That would be all the runs that the Rockies would score but Gray would keep on racking up the strikeouts. He would strike out Wil Myers again in the sixth inning and strike out Schimpf again and Arcia in the seventh to bring his total to fourteen.

For the first inning all night, Gray would not strike anybody out in the eighth inning but he would end the game by striking out pinch-hitter Adam Rosales looking and Ryan Schimpf swinging for the “golden sombrero” in as many plate appearances.

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