Rockies 17, Pirates 16: Two nine-run leads blown!

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Rockies 17, Pirates 16: Two nine-run leads blown!

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Oneil Cruz walks off Coors Field after the loss Friday night in Denver.

The Pirates scored nine runs in the first inning but blew two separate nine-run leads in a 17-16 meltdown to the Rockies that snapped a five-game winning streak tonight at Coors Field.

Major League Baseball's worst team scored five runs off Dennis Santana in the ninth inning, capped by two on a walk-off home run by Brenton Doyle, and seven runs over the final two innings. They became the first team in history to allow 15-plus runs, allow a nine-run inning and face a nine-run deficit and still win the same game. Andrew Heaney allowed four runs (three earned) over 3 1/3 innings before Thomas Harrington allowed six runs on seven hits in 2/3 of an inning, Yohan Ramirez two runs in two innings.

Everyone in the Pirates' lineup had at least one hit, aside from Joey Bart, who reached base five times and finished with four walks, becoming the first Pirates catcher since Ryan Doumit in 2007 to accomplish the latter feat. Nick Gonzales finished with four of the Pirates' 18 hits. Andrew McCutchen had three hits and drove in five runs, while Bryan Reynolds and Isiah Kiner-Falefa also contributed with three-hit efforts. Oneil Cruz had two hits, including a first-inning grand slam.

"I think we're at a turning point right now, especially with what happened today," Gonzales said. "We can either cower, or punch them back. We do that, win tomorrow, win the next day and take the series. Then we'll just be looking back on this thinking, 'Whatever.' "