Corbin Carroll is on pace for a career season through 46 games, and he just added his first walk-off hit of the season for the Arizona Diamondbacks.
The All-Star outfielder walked off the Colorado Rockies to give the D-backs their fifth straight win, and their second walk-off in three games after Starling Marte’s homer against the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday.
With the game tied 1-1 and two outs, Rockies reliever Juan Mejia left a 2-2 sweeper in the middle of the zone. It proved easy work for Carroll to score Gabriel Moreno from second base. Final score: 2-1 D-backs.
Carroll knocked in both of Arizona’s runs, putting them on the board with a groundout in a sixth-inning rally. The Rockies tied the game when D-backs reliever Juan Morillo hit Tyler Freeman in a bases-loaded jam, but Kevin Ginkel entered the game and ended the threat.
All of that made sure Eduardo Rodriguez’s start of seven scoreless innings wasn’t for naught.
After going 1-for-5 on Thursday, Carroll is now slashing .282/.390/.552 and leads MLB with six triples.
After a rough stretch in late April and early May, the D-backs’ winning streak has pushed their record 26-23, good for a comfortable third place in the NL West. They are 4.5 games back from the first-place Los Angeles Dodgers and two games back from the St. Louis Cardinals for the NL’s final wild-card spot.
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