Sullivan's 402-Foot Bomb Breaks Arizona's Back in Colorado's 6-4 Win
Brett Sullivan hit a 402-foot, three-run homer in the second inning that swung Arizona's win probability from 62% to 33% — and the Diamondbacks never recovered. Colorado walked out of Arizona with a 6-4 final, powered by two home runs and a pitching staff that held on just long enough.
Arizona drew first blood in the first inning when Marte singled to right, scoring Carroll and staking the Diamondbacks to a 1-0 lead. That advantage lasted exactly one half-inning. In the second, Castro singled to center to score Goodman and tie it at 1, and then Sullivan stepped up and ended the debate — a 402-foot shot to right that scored Moniak and Castro, turning a tie game into a 4-1 Colorado lead in a single swing. That home run is the play that defined this game: Arizona's win probability collapsed from 62% to 33% in one at-bat, and the Diamondbacks spent the rest of the night chasing a deficit they created the conditions for.
Colorado wasn't done. Zac Veen added a 407-foot homer to right center in the fourth, scoring Castro again and pushing the lead to 6-1. That's back-to-back innings with home runs of 400-plus feet, and it looks like Arizona's pitching staff — specifically Merrill Kelly, who allowed all 6 earned runs across 5 innings on 6 hits and 3 walks — simply had no answer for Colorado's power. Gerardo Carrillo opened for Arizona and was sharp over 2 innings (4 strikeouts, 0 earned runs), but the decision to hand the ball to Kelly in the third appears, in hindsight, to have been the moment the game slipped away.
Arizona made it interesting late. Moreno doubled to left in the fifth to score Perdomo, a walk scored Marte in the seventh, and Carroll capped the night with a 390-foot solo shot to left center in the eighth — finishing 2-for-4 with a homer, an RBI, and 2 runs scored. Marte also went 2-for-3 with an RBI, and Moreno was 2-for-5. The story of the night was that Arizona's offense showed up in pieces, but Colorado's offense showed up all at once, in the second and fourth innings, when it mattered most. Ryan Feltner gave Colorado 5 innings, allowing 2 earned runs on 7 hits — not dominant, but enough. The Rockies' bullpen closed it out from there, and Colorado takes this one 6-4.