Carroll homers twice as D-backs erupt, then hold off Rox late rally

DENVER -- After being held homerless for the first two games of the series, the D-backs unloaded on the Coors Field bleachers Sunday, with Corbin Carroll knocking a pair to pace Arizona’s 8-6 win over the Rockies and secure the series win and a .500 road trip.

The D-backs starting pitchers logged 20 innings over the three games, allowing just six runs for a 2.70 ERA in Colorado.

Arizona took advantage of back-to-back two-out walks in the third to score the game’s first two runs on RBI singles from Nolan Arenado and Lourdes Gurriel Jr. The D-backs scored in each of the next three innings, with Ildemaro Vargas driving in another in the fourth with an RBI single and Carroll following with the first of his two homers to make it 5-0.

Gurriel knocked his first homer of the season in the two-run fifth and Carroll’s second homer of the game, a 448-foot blast to right-center, accounted for a sixth-inning insurance run to make it an 8-2 lead.

Michael Soroka pitched 5 2/3 innings for Arizona, allowing two runs (both earned) on six hits and two walks while striking out eight. His only blemish came in the fourth, when he allowed three consecutive two-out doubles that accounted for his two runs.

Soroka left with runners on first and second and two outs after throwing 98 pitches, 67 for strikes. Ryan Thompson closed out the inning, keeping the Rockies at two runs.

The Rockies made things interesting in the eighth, scoring four on two sacrifice flies and two run-scoring singles. But Paul Sewald closed it out in the ninth for his 10th save of the season.