Denver — For at least one game, Jon Gray conquered the first-inning demons and dominated the San Diego Padres, but it was all for naught. The Colorado Rockies walked out with a 7-5 loss at Coors Field on a warm Friday night in Denver but at least Gray walked off the mound in the seventh looking like an ace.
This time, the Rockies were the ones to strike in the first inning, getting two runs on a Nolan Arenado home run that marked his first ever opposite field blast and also the 500th hit of his career.