San Diego, CA (SportsNetwork.com) - Eric Stults pitched 6 1/3 scoreless innings and the San Diego Padres connected their acceptable means with a 1-0 achievement over the Colorado Rockies on Monday.
Stults (8-17) would accept endemic the affliction almanac in baseball with a loss. Instead, the 34-year-old charcoal angry with Philadelphia's A.J. Burnett for the best losses in the majors afterwards acceptance seven hits with bristles strikeouts. He pitched into the seventh inning after giving up a run for the third time this season.
Rene Rivera angled in the abandoned run of the challenge for San Diego, winners in bristles straight.
Rockies amateur Tyler Matzek (6-11) pitched able-bodied in defeat, fanning eight in six innings of one-run ball. Colorado had won a season-high six after games, accretion 61 runs during that stretch.
"His fastball was absolute good," Colorado administrator Walt Weiss said of Matzek. "Mid 90's fastball with some sink. And a abundant changeup. He's done a hell of a job for us."
Jedd Gyorko drew a two-out airing in the basal of the aboriginal inning afterward groundouts by Yangervis Solarte and Cameron Maybin. Rene Rivera argent the game's alone run with an adverse acreage liner to the bank in right-center.
Colorado threatened in the fifth inning, loading the bases with two outs for Josh Rutledge. Rutledge formed a abounding calculation afore accepted through a Stults fastball for the inning-ending strikeout.
"The absolute big one was accepting Rutledge with the bases loaded," said Padres administrator Bud Black. "That was absolute analytical with a 1-0 game."
Matzek akin his counterpart, arresting out Rymer Liriano with the bases bashed and two outs in the sixth.
Kevin Quackenbush pitched about a two-out distinct to attach bottomward his sixth save.
Rockies aboriginal baseman Justin Morneau went 2-for-4, advancement his batting boilerplate to .320. He leads Pittsburgh's Josh Harrison by .002 for the National League batting title. Teammate Michael Cuddyer won the batting appellation aftermost season.
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