Mickey Moniak singled, doubled, homered and drove in four runs to help the Colorado Rockies earn a four-game split against the Miami Marlins with a 14-4 win in the finale of their four-game series on Thursday afternoon in Denver.
Jake McCarthy also homered for Colorado, which has won two in a row.
Colorado’s Michael Lorenzen allowed four runs and four hits over 4 1/3 innings. He struck out one and walked six.
Marlins starter Ryan Gusto (0-3) went three innings, allowing three runs and four hits while striking out two and walked two.
The Marlins pressured Lorenzen early, getting an infield single from Liam Hicks to start the first and a double to center by Otto Lopez.
Kyle Stowers walked to load the bases and Miami then scored twice without the benefit of a hit. Hicks came home on a ground out by Xavier Edwards for a 1-0 lead, and Lopez scored on a fly out by Owen Caissie to make it 2-0.
Moniak came up in his half of the first and homered to right, his third against the Marlins this season, cutting it to 2-1. He’s also the first Colorado player in team history to homer in the first inning in three straight games.
Lopez tripled off the base of the wall on the first pitch of the third and came home on a sacrifice fly to left-center by Edwards for a 3-1 lead.
Jake McCarthy walked to start the bottom half of the third for the Rockies and Moniak lined a double down the right-field line to put runners on second and third with no outs.
Willi Castro came up with one out and lined a hard single up the middle to plate two runs and tie it 3-3.
Miami took a 4-3 lead on a ground out in the fourth, but Colorado moved back ahead with two runs in the bottom half of the inning on McCarthy’s home run.
The Rockies then blew the game open with seven runs in the sixth and then tacked on two more in the eighth for a 14-4 lead.
