PHOENIX -- Nobody in the Majors loves triples like Corbin Carroll loves triples. So how better to celebrate a holiday weekend than to move closer to even more franchise history?
Carroll became the second player in D-backs franchise history to record 50 triples, then upped the ante by adding another three-bagger for the fifth multi-triple game of his career. All told, the right fielder finished 4-for-4 as the D-backs topped the Rockies 9-1 at Chase Field on Sunday afternoon.
The win is their seventh in the past eight games, and with 18 victories in their first 28 home contests, it marks the first time the club has reached that threshold since 2017.
Carroll extended his MLB-best hitting streak to 12 games in the first when he ripped a hanging breaking ball from Jose Quintana down the right-field line at 108.9 mph. But for as eye-popping as the exit velocities can be when Carroll makes contact, the real fun starts when he takes off.
Zooming from home-to-third in 11.05 seconds, Carroll checked in with the third-fastest time on a triple this year. In first place? Well, that’s him, from Tuesday night.
But the 25-year-old wasn’t done. Facing flamethrowing righty Seth Halvorsen in the sixth, he turned around a 99.1 mph fastball and turned on the jets. Cruising into third just 11.36 seconds later, he now holds five of the top 13 home-to-third times across the Majors this season. His eight triples not only lead the Majors, they double up the second-closest player (Chandler Simpson, four).
The D-backs outfielder became the second-fastest player to reach 50 triples and 80 home runs in a Major League career (537 games), behind only Hall of Famer Lou Gehrig, who did so in 461 games for the Yankees.
The only player left for Carroll to pass on the franchise’s leaderboard is Stephen Drew, who accumulated 52 triples over seven years and more than 2,900 at-bats in a D-backs uniform.