PHOENIX --
Thompson, who had been up for three games before being optioned back to Albuquerque on Tuesday, delivered his first career extra-base hit, a one-out double in the ninth.
Thompson said he got an extra postgame charge when he viewed the highlight on his phone and heard Rockies television broadcaster Drew Goodman paraphrase his own catchphrase.\n\n“I was just watching the videos, and the announcer said, ‘Here come the Isotopes,’ so it was funny,” Thompson said.\n\nThe ninth-inning performance of the new additions reversed the misery of a Rockies team that has struggled to execute in game-defining situations. That hasn’t been the case in Albuquerque for a team that has been at or near the top of its division in the Pacific Coast League.\n\n“\\[Chad and I\\] have been doing that the whole year, late in the game, back to back, just getting on base and him driving me in,” Thompson said. “It was great late in the game to find a way to win.”
It was the first Major League RBI for Stevens, who debuted last season with the Angels and went 2-for-13 in five games.\n\n“An awesome job by \\[Thompson\\] hitting a double, and then I don’t think I could have drawn it up better,” Stevens said.\n\nThe Rockies spent much of the game going back to the drawing board. They had runners in scoring position with fewer than two outs on three previous occasions and finished another inning with runners at first and second.\n\nEven with the win, the Rockies tied a franchise record by failing to homer in their seventh straight game. It has happened twice previously -- July 28-Aug. 3, 2014, and April 18-24, 2007.
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Thompson and Stevens batted eighth and ninth, respectively. Ahead of them, six-hole hitter Willi Castro was 2-for-4 with a run scored, and Ezequiel Tovar was 2-for-4 from the seventh spot. The runs didn’t flow, but the Rockies kept generating chances and grabbed the victory a night after dropping a 2-1 decision Thursday in the opener of a four-game set.\n\n“This is a confident team,” manager Warren Schaeffer said. “Sometimes it’s not going to go our way with growing pains, but we’re going to keep grinding. These guys grind every day. They prepare well and they get after it. It was a good win tonight.”\n\nA Rockies constant in a positive sense, righty reliever