Soriano's hit, Raptors' error, cap Rockies comeback win
Trailing by a run in the bottom of the eighth inning, Wilson Soriano singled home the tying run, and Terry McClure scored the go-ahead run on the play after an error helping the Grand Junction Rockies to a 7-6 come-from-behind win over the Ogden Raptors.
Alec Crawford finished the game by retiring the side in order in the ninth to earn his fifth save of the season, giving the Rockies their fourth straight win.
The win gets Grand Junction to 22-15, matching a franchise-high for wins in the first half, with one to play.
After Ogden took a 1-0 lead with an unearned run in the third inning, Randy Reyes scored from third on a balk after he tripled with one out in the fourth.
Carlos Polanco sailed through the first five innings for the Rockies, allowing just the one unearned run, but the Raptors got to him in the sixth. After two singled started the inning, Julian Leon singled home the first run of the inning to make it 2-1 Raptors, but with 1 out, Yensys Capellan homered in his first at bat of the game with give Ogden a four run lead.
Polanco exited allowing four earned runs in 5 1/3 innings, but the Rockies took him off the hook by batting around and scoring four runs in the bottom of the sixth. Henry Garcia brought home Luis Jean to make it 5-2. Dom Nunez drove in a pair, and he scored to tie the game when Terry McClure reached on a fielder's choice.
The Raptors scored an unearned run in the eighth to regain the lead in the eighth before the Rockies comeback in the bottom of the inning.
Reyes and Soriano had two hits for the Rockies, while Daza walked three times.
After Polanco left the game in the sixth, the bullpen trio of Crawford, Craig Schlitter and Marc Magliaro held the Raptors without an earned run the rest of the night.