Eugenio Suarez, Ketel Marte lead surging D-backs past Rockies

Eugenio Suarez homered for the third straight game, Ketel Marte had four hits and the Arizona Diamondbacks beat the Colorado Rockies 5-3 on Saturday night in Denver.

Suarez drove in two runs and leads the majors with 67 RBIs.

Geraldo Perdomo also went deep and added a single for Arizona, which has won three straight and improved to 3-2 on its nine-game road trip.

Shelby Miller gave up a leadoff bunt to Ryan McMahon in the ninth but struck out the next three batters for his eighth save.

Jordan Beck homered and Tyler Freeman had two hits for Colorado, which has lost three in a row following a season-high four-game winning streak.

The D-backs jumped ahead in the top of the first against Carson Palmquist. Marte led off with a double and went to third on Perdomo's bunt single before Lourdes Gurriel Jr. walked to load the bases with no outs.

Suarez drove in Marte with a sacrifice fly and Palmquist escaped without further damage.

Beck put Colorado ahead in the bottom of the first when he followed Freeman's leadoff walk with his 10th home run of the season. Marte tied it in the second with a ground-rule double that drove in Tim Tawa.

Suarez's 25th home run of the season in the third put Arizona ahead 3-2, but the Rockies tied it in the bottom of the inning when Ryan Ritter scored on Beck's double-play groundout.

That was all D-backs starter Merrill Kelly (7-3) gave up in his six innings of work. He allowed three runs (two earned) on six hits and three walks and struck out seven.

Jimmy Herget (0-1) replaced Palmquist after the left-hander allowed three runs on four hits over four innings, and the D-backs got to the right-hander right away.

Marte led off the fifth with a bloop single to left that fell between three Colorado players. Perdomo followed with a line-drive homer just over the scoreboard in right field to put the Diamondbacks back in front. It was his eighth homer of the season.

--Field Level Media