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Wednesday, Apr. 19 9:35pm ET
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PHOENIX (AP) -- Tony Womack is grieving inside, but on the baseball field, he's tearing it up. Womack, who missed Monday's game to travel to Virginia for his grandmother's funeral, was back in the lineup Tuesday and had three hits, including a two-run triple. He kept it going Wednesday night as the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied from four runs down to beat the Colorado Rockies 8-7. Womack hit a two-run home run, drove in the go-ahead run with a single in the eighth and made a big defensive play at shortstop. "Off the field it's going to be tough for me for a long time," said Womack, who was very close to his grandmother. "I'm not going to pretend and I think these guys know that on the field I'm going to give it everything I have mentally and physically." Manager Buck Showalter said Womack's play at shortstop, when he reacted to a bad hop on a ground ball in the eighth inning, leaped high in the air to snag it, then threw out Ben Petrick at first, was the most impressive moment in a wild game. "Most people who compete at this level are real tough mentally and emotionally," Showalter said, "and his grandmother was a big fan of what he was doing. I think he feels like she's still watching what he's doing." Steve Finley tied it at 7 with his sixth home run of the season, a two-run, 414-foot shot to center off reliever Gabe White with two outs in the seventh. "I'm not trying to do that right there," Finley said. "I was just trying to drive in Jay (Bell). He got a pitch up and I got a good swing on it and it went out." The decisive run was unearned because Colorado third baseman Jeff Cirillo couldn't handle Kelly Stinnett's grounder to lead off the eighth. Pinch-hitter Bernard Gilkey walked, then Womack lined one off reliever Julian Tavarez (1-1) past Cirillo to drive in pinch runner Hanley Frias. "When you're up 6-2 you're feeling pretty good," Colorado manager Buddy Bell said. "But they've got some professional hitters, guys that know how to play the game. They're a tough team to stay on top of. You have to be on top of your game and we haven't been." Terry Shumpert tripled twice, once with the bases loaded, for four RBI to help Colorado take a 6-2 lead. Larry Walker was 4-for-5 with an RBI for the new-look Rockies, who have scored their last 33 runs without a home run. After Womack's homer gave Arizona a 2-1 lead in the third inning, the Rockies tied it on Shumpert's RBI triple with two outs in the fourth, then scored four times in the sixth. Shumpert tripled with the bases loaded, then scored on a grounder to Womack. The shortstop made a tough stop, but his throw to the plate was not in time. Arizona cut it to 6-4 in the sixth on RBI singles by Erubiel Durazo and Andy Fox. Walker's RBI single made it 7-4 in the seventh. Mike Morgan (1-0) pitched a perfect eighth inning to get the victory, and Byung-Hyun Kim got the final two out for his first save of the season. Kim came into the game with a runner at second with one out. Surprisingly, pinch-runner Brian Hunter tried to steal, and catcher Damian Miller threw him out. "It's a weapon that we like to use," Bell said. "It was a good throw by Miller. Brian's on his own if he gets a good jump. We were facing a tough right-hander, and we felt like we could use our speed. They executed better." Lansing walked and Walker singled under Fox's glove at third to put runners at first and third, then Kim got Cirillo to bounce out to Fox to end the game. After he called Travis Lee out on a check swing third strike to end the seventh, umpire Ed Montague threw third base coach Brian Butterfield out of the game. Butterfield had to be restrained from coming at Montague after the ejection. Game notesWith his 1,448th hit, a leadoff single in the fourth, Walker surpassed Jeff Heath (1936-49) as Canada's career hit leader. Walker has 23 career four-hit games. ... Colorado placed catcher Scott Servais on the 15-day disabled list with a sprained right ankle and recalled the catcher Petrick from Triple-A Tucson. Petrick had two passed balls in the game, one allowing a run to score. ... Fox played third base for Arizona in his first start of the season after coming off the disabled list Monday. | ALSO SEE Baseball Scoreboard Colorado Clubhouse Arizona Clubhouse RECAPS Chi. White Sox 5 Seattle 2
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