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PrintDENVER — Jason Jennings became the winningest pitcher in Coors Field history on Tuesday night, allowing one run in seven innings to help the Colorado Rockies snap a four-game losing skid with a 2-1 victory against the St. Louis Cardinals.
Dustan Mohr and Todd Greene hit back-to-back home runs in the fourth to give Jennings (3-6) the runs he needed to win his 25th game at Coors, passing Pedro Astacio. With the win, the Rockies snapped Mark Mulder’s seven-game winning streak.
Mulder (7-2) lost for the first time since April 13 despite allowing eight hits and two runs in seven-plus innings.
Albert Pujols was the first batter Witasick faced Tuesday, and this time, Jay Witasick threw him all sliders and got him to ground out to shortstop.
The game was the first this season and only the 11th in Coors Field history in which the teams combined for fewer than four runs.
St. Louis had a good chance to score in the fifth when Jennings allowed a single and two walks to load the bases with two outs, but got Jim Edmonds to bounce out to second.
St. Louis scored its lone run when Jennings hit Reggie Sanders with a pitch to lead off the sixth, then Sanders advanced to third on a stolen base and a throwing error by Greene and Mark Grudzielanek hit an RBI groundout.
Mohr hit his fourth home run of the year, a shot to dead center off a 2-1 pitch from Mulder. Greene followed by taking a 2-1 pitch barely over the fence in right-center field.
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