Gallen sharp in 7 innings, Diamondbacks （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 Rockies 4-0
PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona's starters have taken turns stringing together 質 starts all season for one of baseball's best rotations.
To say they're feeding off each other might be a stretch. More like nobody wants to be the one who unravels the string.
Zac Gallen struck out seven in seven crisp innings, Jose Herrera 攻撃する，衝突する a two-run 二塁打 for his first big-league 打点s and the Arizona Diamondbacks （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the Colorado Rockies 4-0 on Sunday.
"You see a guy go out there pitching 井戸／弁護士席, you want to do your part," Gallen said. "You don't want to be the weak link. It's going through the whole clubhouse. The pitching staff, we're trying to bring that 辛勝する／優位, that tenacity."
Ketel 市場 had three 攻撃する，衝突するs to 上げる his 普通の／平均（する） to .206 and the Diamondbacks took advantage of a few mistakes by Colorado's Germ?n M?rquez (0-3) to 勝利，勝つ for the ninth time in 12 games.
Gallen (2-0) 許すd five 攻撃する，衝突するs and Arizona's bullpen held a day after 示す Melancon gave up four runs in the ninth inning of a 4-1 loss.
Arizona Diamondbacks' Alek Thomas, left, celebrates with チーム仲間 Pavin Smith (26) after 得点する／非難する／２０ing as Colorado Rockies catcher Dom Nunez, 中心, pauses at home plate in the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 8, 2022, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
"That's how you follow a game 計画（する）, 権利?" Diamondbacks 経営者／支配人 Torey Lovullo said. "You want your starting 投手 to attack, give you a chance to 勝利，勝つ the game by controlling their 不快な／攻撃 可能性のある."
The Rockies failed to 出資する on an 早期に 適切な時期 against Gallen and finished with five 攻撃する，衝突するs to get shut out for the second time this season.
"I thought you know Germ?n pitched 井戸／弁護士席 enough to to 勝利，勝つ," Rockies 経営者／支配人 Bud 黒人／ボイコット said. "You give up four runs in six innings - three earned runs - a lot of times you 勝利，勝つ games like that, but I think the story was their guy pitched better. He was 優れた."
Gallen and fellow 権利-hander Merrill Kelly have 錨，総合司会者d an Arizona starting rotation that had the majors' second-best ERA at 2.33 entering Sunday's game.
Gallen escaped 走者s on second and third with one out in the first inning and 立ち往生させるd two more 走者s in the fifth. He has 許すd three earned runs and with 26 strikeouts in 28 1/3 innings this season.
"I felt I 肉親，親類d of got 詐欺師 as the game went on," Gallen said. "The curveball was 承認する 早期に in the game, I just tried to make an 調整 throughout the game."
M?rquez has given up at least four runs in four straight starts. The 権利-hander was 激しく揺するd for seven runs in 3 2/3 innings in his last start - a loss to Philadelphia - and the struggle continued in Arizona.
The Diamondbacks jumped on M?rquez 早期に, 得点する／非難する／２０ing three runs in the second inning on Jose Herrera's two-run 二塁打 and Nick Ahmed's 打点 選び出す／独身.
M?rquez gave up another run in the fifth inning on a wild pickoff throw. He 許すd four runs and six 攻撃する，衝突するs and struck out seven with four walks in six innings.
"I was a lot better in there than I´ve been, 最小限に減らすd (the 損失) a little bit," M?rquez said.
THOMAS´ DEBUT
Alek Thomas, Arizona´s No. 1 prospect, was brought up from ３倍になる-A Reno and started in 中心 field.
The 22-year-old from Chicago was a second-一連の会議、交渉／完成する 選ぶ (63rd 全体にわたる) in the 2018 草案 and was the Diamondbacks´ minor league player of the year in 2021. Thomas 攻撃する，衝突する .277 with four ホームランs and 14 打点s in 24 games at Reno in 2022.
He 二塁打d in the fifth inning for his first big league 攻撃する，衝突する, 得点する／非難する／２０d on M?rquez´s throwing error and finished 1 for 3.
"A 二塁打 off the 塀で囲む for your first major league 攻撃する，衝突する, it's a 広大な／多数の／重要な moment, a 広大な／多数の／重要な moment for his family," Lovullo said. "Everybody who's had the 適切な時期 to get their first major league 攻撃する，衝突する, it's going to be a 広大な／多数の／重要な day of 祝賀."
Arizona also placed catcher Carson Kelly on the 10-day 負傷させるd 名簿（に載せる）／表（にあげる）, retroactive to May 5, with a left oblique 緊張する.
UP NEXT
Rockies: LHP Austin Gomber (2-2, 3.58 ERA) has three straight 質 starts 長，率いるing into Monday's game at San Francisco. He's 許すd four earned runs and struck out 20 in that （期間が）わたる.
Diamondbacks: FHP Humberto Castellanos (2-1, 4.12), Monday's starter against Florida, has gone 2-1 with a 3.78 ERA in four starts after 開始 the season in the bullpen.
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Colorado Rockies' Charlie Blackmon, 権利, runs toward first base after a swinging third strike was 行方不明になるd by Arizona Diamondbacks catcher Jose Herrera, left, before Herrera threw to first for an out in the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 8, 2022, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Colorado Rockies' Yonathan Daza (2) reaches first base on a wide throw to Arizona Diamondbacks first baseman Christian Walker, left, after a 軍隊 out at second base in the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 8, 2022, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks 経営者／支配人 Torey Lovullo watches the 活動／戦闘 on the field in the first inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies, Sunday, May 8, 2022, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Colorado Rockies 経営者／支配人 Bud 黒人／ボイコット 熟考する／考慮するs his 顔触れ card in the second inning of a baseball game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Sunday, May 8, 2022, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Colorado Rockies starting 投手 German Marquez walks off the field after the final out against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 8, 2022, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Nick Ahmed, 権利, and Geraldo Perdomo (2) celebrate their runs 得点する／非難する／２０d against the Colorado Rockies in the second inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 8, 2022, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
Arizona Diamondbacks' Ketel 市場, 権利, celebrates his run 得点する／非難する／２０d against the Colorado Rockies with チーム仲間 Alek Thomas (5) in the second inning of a baseball game Sunday, May 8, 2022, in 不死鳥／絶品. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin)
