Gray helps Rockies continue dominance over D-backs

Jon Gray pitched six solid innings, Wade Davis held on for his ninth save and the Colorado Rockies beat the Arizona Diamondbacks for the seventh consecutive time with a 6-4 victory Wednesday night in Phoenix, despite Charlie Blackmon's streak of three-hit games coming to an end. Gray (7-5) allowed two runs (one earned) on six hits and two walks while striking out four.

Pinch hitter Kevin Cron brought Arizona within 6-4 with a one-out homer in the ninth off Davis, who lost save opportunities in each of his past two outings. Ketel Marte singled with two outs to bring the tying run to the plate, but David Peralta lined out to first baseman Daniel Murphy. The Rockies pounded out 14 hits, including a two-run homer by Murphy that tied the score at 2 in the fourth.

Blackmon, trying to tie the major league record with his sixth consecutive game with at least three hits, went 1-for-5. He singled in the seventh to extend his hitting streak to nine games. Ryan McMahon's two-run double was the key hit in a three-run seventh that gave Colorado a 5-2 lead. He went 3-for-4, including an RBI single in the eighth for a 6-3 edge.

Arizona starter Zack Greinke (8-3) gave up 11 hits -- his most since allowing 11 on April 25, 2016 -- and lost his first game since May 21. Greinke yielded five runs, walked none and struck out two in seven innings. He had not given up more than seven hits in 15 previous starts this season. Rockies shortstop Trevor Story left the game in the sixth after he was thrown out on a headfirst slide at second trying to stretch a single. After the game, the Denver Post reported manager Bud Black said X-rays were negative and the injury is being called a jammed right thumb, but more tests will be performed Thursday.

Nolan Arenado and Murphy singled to start the seventh inning before McMahon drove in both with an opposite-field double to left-center. After a Raimel Tapia single, Tony Wolters made it 5-2 with an RBI single. The Diamondbacks got a run back in the bottom of the inning when Peralta lined an RBI single past the head of reliever Bryan Shaw, driving in Tim Locastro, who began the inning by being hit by a pitch for the 12th time in 93 plate appearances this season.