Rookie right-hander Keider Montero recorded a shutout, Parker Meadows homered and drove in three runs and the host Detroit Tigers rolled to an 11-0 win over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday.
Montero (5-6) held the Rockies to three hits and didn’t walk a batter while recording five strikeouts. Riley Greene had a three-run triple, while Matt Vierling and Andy Ibanez drove in two runs apiece for the Tigers (74-71).
Bradley Blalock (1-3) was charged with five runs (four earned) on five hits in four innings for the Rockies (54-91). Blalock walked five and fanned four.
Meadows gave his club a jolt by leading off the bottom of the first with his seventh homer of the season. Detroit had two runners in scoring position later in the inning, but Blalock struck out Ibanez to prevent further damage.
Ryan McMahon’s leadoff single in the second was the lone hit the Rockies mustered against Montero in the first six innings. McMahon ended up being erased on a double play.
The Tigers took a 5-0 lead in the bottom of the second. Blalock got into trouble after walking the leadoff batter, Jace Jung. Shortstop Ezequiel Tovar’s error on a one-out grounder by Jake Rogers was followed by a Meadows walk to load the bases.
Greene cleared the bases by ripping a triple down the right field line. Vierling then smacked a single to center to score Greene.
Detroit expanded its lead in the sixth. Jung walked again and moved up to second on a passed ball before Trey Sweeney’s single pushed him to third.
A wild pitch by reliever Anthony Molina as Rogers struck out allowed Sweeney to move to second. Meadows brought in Jung and Sweeney with a single up the middle.
The Tigers weren’t done. After Greene walked, Vierling delivered another RBI single. Kerry Carpenter made it 9-0 with a sacrifice fly. After a Colt Keith double, Ibanez then supplied a two-run single off Justin Lawrence to complete the scoring.
Tovar had Colorado’s second hit, a one-out single in the seventh, but a double play ended that inning.
–Field Level Media