Hamels wins 10th; Phillies top Rox, halt home slide
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Philadelphia Phillies starter Cole Hamels put his gloom in June behind him and tossed eight stellar innings on Tuesday.
His solid outing, plus a pair of two-run homers by Carlos Ruiz and John Mayberry, helped the Phillies down the Colorado Rockies, 7-2, in the opener of a three-game set.
Hamels (10-3) fanned seven and surrendered two runs on six hits and three walks. The 28-year-old lefty came into the contest with a 1-2 mark and a 6.75 ERA this month, while sporting a career 11-16 record in June.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}"A lot of Cole Hamels tonight," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "He was really good."
Ruiz recorded two hits and three RBI, while Jimmy Rollins added a pair of hits and three runs scored for the Phillies, who snapped a six-game home losing streak and won just their third home tilt in their last 13 tries.
"It was a solid team effort," Hamels said. "When you go out and give up a run in the first inning, we were able to battle and get the big hits, get the runs. Mayberry came up huge with a big homer. Then having 'Chooch' (Carlos Ruiz) get that big homer, too. That was a good team effort."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Josh Outman (0-3) allowed four runs on five hits and two walks in 4 1/3 innings for Colorado, which has dropped 11 of its last 12 games.
Tyler Colvin's RBI single in the opening frame gave Colorado a 1-0 lead, but the Phillies plated a run in the third, two more in the fourth and another in the fifth to surge ahead.
Rollins worked a two-out walk in the third and scored on Placido Polanco's double down the third-base line.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}In the fourth, Shane Victorino ripped a one-out single and Mayberry cracked a two-run shot to left two batters later for a 3-1 Phillies advantage.
Ruiz laced a run-scoring double into the left-field corner in the fifth to push the margin to 4-1.
The Rockies got a run back in the sixth on Chris Nelson's RBI single to center, but the Phillies padded their margin and pushed across three more in the seventh.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Hunter Pence registered an RBI groundout and Ruiz belted a two-run blast that just crept over the wall and into the flower bed in left, giving Philadelphia a 7-2 edge.
Game Notes
Mayberry has clubbed five round-trippers in his last six games...Earlier on Tuesday, Major League Baseball issued a 50-game suspension, effective immediately, to Philadelphia Phillies second baseman Freddy Galvis for a violation of its performance-enhancing drug policy. Galvis tested positive for clostebol, a synthetic anabolic steroid...This is the first time since May 17 that Rollins has scored three runs...Philadelphia is 21-4 over its last 25 tilts against Colorado.