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Reserve leads Rockies in win over Diamondbacks

Associated Press Arizona Daily Wildcat Arizona Diamondbacks' Hanley Frias connects for a double and bats in a run against the Colorado Rockies last night during the second inning at Coors Field in Denver.

Associated Press

DENVER - Derrick Gibson hit the first two homers of his major league career, doubled and drove in six runs last night to lead the Colorado Rockies over the Arizona Diamondbacks 12-7.

Gibson played in place of Larry Walker, who leads the majors in batting at .380. Walker was out of the starting lineup for the fifth time in 10 games because of a sore left knee.

Gibson had been 2-for-12 - both singles - with no RBIs this season for Colorado. But he broke loose at Coors Field as the Rockies won on the day they hired Dan O'Dowd as their new general manager.

Terry Shumpert had three hits and scored three runs and Neifi Perez homered and drove in three for Colorado.

Jamey Wright (4-2) gave up five runs in seven innings and improved to 4-1 since being recalled from Triple-A Colorado Springs.

Omar Daal (15-9), who had won his last two starts, lasted 4 2-3 innings and gave up nine hits and eight runs.

Shumpert doubled with one out in the first and Gibson followed with a home run to straightaway center field.

Daal's RBI grounder tied it at 2 in the second, and Arizona went ahead in the third on Erubiel Durazo's single.

Shumpert hit an RBI triple and Gibson doubled as Colorado took the lead for good in the bottom half.

The Rockies broke it open with a five-run fourth, capped by Gibson's three-run homer to center off Armando Reynoso.

Jay Bell, who had three hits, hit his 37th home run in the Arizona seventh, making it 9-5. Perez hit a two-run homer in the Colorado eighth.