DENVER -- Derek Norris hit a tiebreaking, two-run double in the eighth inning and the San Diego Padres rallied to beat the Colorado Rockies 7-6 on Tuesday night.Clint Barmes homered and Wil Myers had three hits for San Diego, which has won three straight and six of seven.Nick Hundley hit his first homer as a Rockie and also tripled. Colorado has lost five straight after starting the season 7-2.The struggling Rockies used a three-run fifth to take a 5-2 lead but the bullpen couldn't hold it. The Padres got one in the seventh and then went up in the eighth. 
Pinch-hitter Yangervis Solarte singled home a run, and after a failed safety squeeze left runners at first and second with two outs, Myers tied it with a single. Norris, who had two hits, followed with a two-run double off Boone Logan (0-1) to give the Padres a 7-5 lead.Hundley led off the ninth with a home run off Craig Kimbrel, but the righty retired the next three batters for his fifth save.Brandon Maurer (1-0) pitched a scoreless seventh inning to get the win.Charlie Blackmon had a two-run triple for Colorado.Barmes led off the third with his first home run since Sept. 11, 2013, to put San Diego ahead 1-0. Matt Kemp's RBI double later in the inning made it 2-0.The Rockies tied it in the fourth on a triple by Hundley and a groundout by D.J. LeMahieu.San Diego was poised to break it open in the fifth when Colorado's defense bailed out starter Tyler Matzek. After the first two batters walked, Myers singled to right and Barmes was tagged out in a rundown between third and home.Rafael Ynoa's error at third loaded the bases but Matzek got Kemp to ground into an inning-ending double play.
Pinch-hitter Yangervis Solarte singled home a run, and after a failed safety squeeze left runners at first and second with two outs, Myers tied it with a single. Norris, who had two hits, followed with a two-run double off Boone Logan (0-1) to give the Padres a 7-5 lead.Hundley led off the ninth with a home run off Craig Kimbrel, but the righty retired the next three batters for his fifth save.Brandon Maurer (1-0) pitched a scoreless seventh inning to get the win.Charlie Blackmon had a two-run triple for Colorado.Barmes led off the third with his first home run since Sept. 11, 2013, to put San Diego ahead 1-0. Matt Kemp's RBI double later in the inning made it 2-0.The Rockies tied it in the fourth on a triple by Hundley and a groundout by D.J. LeMahieu.San Diego was poised to break it open in the fifth when Colorado's defense bailed out starter Tyler Matzek. After the first two batters walked, Myers singled to right and Barmes was tagged out in a rundown between third and home.Rafael Ynoa's error at third loaded the bases but Matzek got Kemp to ground into an inning-ending double play.
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