Jesse Winker’s two-run home run in the bottom of the 13th inning Thursday capped the Cincinnati Reds’ comeback from a 5-2 deficit as they dumped the Colorado Rockies 7-5 at the Great American Ball Park in Cincinnati.
Rockies reliever Chris Rusin (0-2) hit Joey Votto with a pitch to start the winning rally. Winker followed up Eugenio Suarez’s flyout with his second homer of the season into the seats in right-centre.
“Joey getting on to start the inning was huge, obviously,” Winker said.
“He went fastball away, slider and then I thought he was going to go back to the fastball. I just recognized it and tried to put a good swing on it.”
Dylan Floro (2-1) pitched three scoreless innings for the win as Cincinnati avoided a series sweep and snapped a four-game losing streak. The Reds forced extra innings when Colorado closer Wade Davis tossed a wild pitch with two outs in the bottom of the ninth that scored Curt Casali from third.
Colorado starter Tyler Anderson sailed through seven innings, permitting just five hits and two runs while walking one and whiffing five, but was denied a win by the Reds’ late comeback.Rookie right-hander Tyler Mahle got a no-decision for Cincinnati. He pitched five innings, yielding six hits and three runs, two earned. He walked two and fanned six.
A Nolan Arenado double play ball got the scoring started for Colorado in the first, but Casali tied the game in the second when he ripped a double into the left field corner to barely score Adam Duvall. The Rockies challenged Tripp Gibson’s safe call at the plate, but replay upheld it.
Carlos Gonzalez gave Colorado the lead in the third when he lined a two-out single up the middle that scored DJ LeMahieu. Anderson’s fielder’s choice bunt plated Mike Tauchman in the fourth for a 3-1 advantage.
Scott Schebler brought the Reds within 3-2 in the fifth by slicing a double to left that scored Billy Hamilton. But the Rockies upped the lead to 5-2 in the sixth when Ryan McMahon tripled home Tauchman and scored on a sacrifice fly by LeMahieu.
Cincinnati pulled within 5-4 in the eighth on run-scoring groundouts by Votto and Suarez. But its bid to tie the game was gunned down at the plate by Gonzalez, who nailed Suarez from right field as he tried to score on a pinch-hit single by Winker.

Jays rally in 9th, top Orioles in 10th
Aledmys Diaz singled home the winning run with two outs in the 10th inning as the Toronto Blue Jays came back to defeat the visiting Baltimore Orioles 5-4 Thursday night.
The Blue Jays scored three runs against Brad Brach in the bottom of the ninth to tie the game at 4.
In the bottom of the 10th, Teoscar Hernandez hustled a leadoff double against Miguel Castro (1-2). Justin Smoak was walked intentionally. Kendrys Morales and Luke Maile struck out before Diaz lined his game-winning hit to left.
Danny Barnes (2-1) pitched a perfect top of the 10th with two strikeouts to pick up the win.
Austin Wynns hit his first career major league home run, and Danny Valencia and Mark Trumbo also hit solo shots for Baltimore.
Curtis Granderson homered for Toronto. Maile took a one-out walk from Brach in the ninth and advanced to third on a double by Diaz. Randal Grichuk hit a two-run double, cutting the deficit to 4-3.
Pinch hitter Devon Travis walked, and Kevin Pillar tied the game with an RBI single. Castro replaced Brach and ended the inning on a double-play grounder by Yangervis Solarte.
Baltimore starter David Hess allowed one run, five hits and two walks with four strikeouts in six-plus innings.
Toronto starter Jaime Garcia gave up one run, four hits and three walks (one intentional) over six innings. The left-hander struck out six.
The Orioles led 1-0 in the first inning after Trey Mancini led off with a double, took third on a groundout and came home on Manny Machado’s sacrifice fly.
Granderson tied the game when he led off the bottom of the first with his fifth homer of the season. It was his 46th career leadoff home run.
Tyler Clippard took over from Garcia in the seventh and surrendered the home run by Wynns with one out to give the Orioles a 2-1 lead. Clippard struck out the other three batters in his lone inning.
Hess was replaced by Mychal Givens after Morales led off with bottom of the seventh with a single. With two outs, Grichuk beat out an infield single but Gio Urshela fouled out to first.
John Axford gave up Valencia’s sixth homer of the season and Trumbo’s third with one out in the eighth. Baltimore’s Richard Bleier pitched around a single in the eighth.