Mickey Moniak has been reborn in the summer of his 27th year.
The outfielder, the No. 1 overall pick of the 2016 draft, proved that again Sunday afternoon at Coors Field, lofting a three-run homer to right field in the fifth inning off Brandon Pfaad, to lift the Rockies to a 4-2 victory over the Diamondbacks.
The win snapped Colorado’s three-game losing streak and prevented Arizona from sweeping the three-game series.
Moniak’s home run was his 11th of the season and his eighth over his last 18 games.
Starter Antonio Senzatela got a little redemption, too. The veteran right-hander made his best start since April 20 when he limited Washington to one run on six hits over six innings. On Sunday, Senzatela commanded all of his pitches and struck out a season-high five over 5 1/3 innings. He gave up two runs on four hits.
Arizona took a 1-0 lead in the second, combining Josh Naylor’s leadoff walk, a double by Eugenio Suarez, and a sacrifice fly by Randal Grichuk.
The D-backs stretched their lead to 2-0 in the fourth. Naylor hit a one-out single, advanced to second on a wild pitch that slipped out of Senzatela’s hand and sailed to the backstop, and scored on Grichuk’s single to right.
But a quartet of Rockies relievers — Juan Mejia, Tyler Kinley, Victor Vodnik and closer Seth Halvorsen — held the D-backs scoreless for the final 3 2/3 innings. The foursome almost held the D-backs hitless, too, until Grichuk hit a two-out double off the right-field wall off Halvorsen in the ninth. But Halvorsen got pinch-hitter Ketel Marte to pop out to left to end the game, giving Haloverson his sixth save.
The Rockies are off on Monday before opening a three-game series against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Coors.
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