 gave up a home run to the first batter he faced, Charlie Blackmon, and fell behind 2-0 in the first inning.'' I had a lot of run on my fastball tonight, and had a lot of traffic on the bases, but I was able to adjust and figure some things out,'' Cashner said. ''I was just more focused on locating pitches.'' Colorado added a run in the second when Trevor Story singled home DJ LeMahieu for a 3-0 lead.'' We got a couple, could have got a few more,'' Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. ''Cashner knows how to work through traffic and minimize that inning, but we only came out of there with a couple.'' Having exited his last outing after 2 2/3 innings, Cashner lasted six innings while allowing three runs and six hits. He walked three and struck out six.'' I think it starts with Cashner, that's a great start out of him,'' Wallace said. ''To be able to stay in that game, and battle. That's a big start for him to keep us in the game.'' After Butler hit Jon Jay with a pitch in the sixth, Wil Myers doubled down the right field line to score Jay and tie the game 3-3. Wallace doubled off the wall in left field to score Myers and put San Diego ahead 4-3. Alexei Ramirez singled against Justin Miller to score pinch-runner Adam Rosales and extend the lead to 5-3.'' The ball started to get elevated a little bit,'' Weiss said. ''His two-seamer was real hard and heavy, two-seamer was real good, slider was real good, and little by little the ball started getting elevated, especially the two home runs.'' Fernando Rodney retired the side in order in the ninth for his sixth save.'' It's great to come back like that, especially for Cashner,'' Padres manager Andy Green said. ''He managed to minimize the damage in the first and finally found who he was in the final three innings. He settled in nicely, and for me that's probably what I'm most ecstatic about.'' Butler (0-1) allowed five runs over 5 2/3 innings while striking out three and walking one.'' We had an opportunity to get the team on the right track and try to finish this road trip up well, and end up going out like that,'' Butler said. TRAINER'S ROOMRockies: RHP Jorge De La Rosa (strained groin) has started his throwing program with a session Tuesday. De La Rosa will need at least one and maybe two rehab starts before he can rejoin the rotation, according to Weiss. ... RHP Miguel Castro (sore shoulder) continues to make progress and had an extended throwing session Tuesday. Padres: LHP Robbie Erlin will miss the rest of the season as he will undergo Tommy John surgery to repair a torn ligament in his elbow. An MRI showed a significant tear and that rest and rehabilitation would no longer be an option. ''He tried to pitch through it,'' Green said. ''But he has to have the surgery.'' Erlin faces an approximate 14-month healing period. UP NEXTRockies: RHP Tyler Chatwood (3-2, 2.73 ERA) looks to follow up a solid outing in Arizona in his last start in which he pitched six shutout innings and allowed five hits. Chatwood will make his fourth career start at Petco Park. Padres: RHP Cesar Vargas (0-0, 0.81 ERA) starts on Wednesday afternoon. Vargas pitched 5 1/3 scoreless innings in Los Angeles in his second career start after being recalled from Double-A on April 23.
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Time: 10:10 P.M. EST Venue: Petco Park
The Colorado Rockies opened their lengthiest road trip of the season with their lineup looking right at home, but a visit to the San Diego Padres immediately thwarted that momentum - similar to years past. The Rockies' potent lineup hopes to figure out the confines of Petco Park on Tuesday night, where they have dropped nearly 80 percent of their games to the last-place Padres since September 2013. Colorado (12-13) opened its 10-game trip with a promising sweep of Arizona, snapping a five-game skid with 20 runs and 32 hits in the series. Yet, San Diego (10-16) has a way of silencing opposing bats in Petco Park - especially Colorado's. The Rockies - baseball's fourth highest-scoring team at 5.32 runs per game - were held to a lone run for the third time with Monday's 2-1 defeat, a strikingly similar result to their last 23 games in San Diego dating to Sept. 6, 2013. Eighteen have been losses, largely due to Colorado's 2.78 run-scoring average. The Rockies' 2.90 runs per game at Petco Park since the start of the 2014 season are fewer than any other ballpark in which they have played more than eight games. The Padres have opened 5-8 there, while Colorado is 8-5 on the road. Maybe a matchup against Andrew Cashner will help the Rockies' cause. Cashner (1-2, 4.94 ERA) is coming off his worst outing of the season, allowing six runs - three earned - and four hits over 2 2/3 innings with four walks in Wednesday's 13-9 loss at San Francisco. Cashner had surrendered just two runs and seven hits in 12 innings over his previous two starts - both at Petco where he holds a career 2.71 ERA." That game was the aberration, the last one in San Francisco," manager Andy Green told MLB's official website. "He has to attack with the fastball, he has to trust it. He needs to have that depth of conviction in every pitch, and when he does that, Cash is really, really good. And that's the guy I'm expecting to toe the rubber." Cashner's career numbers against Colorado don't provoke as much confidence as his manager does. The right-hander holds a 6.08 ERA against the Rockies in 11 appearances, six starts, and they have pounded him for a .339 average - the highest of any team he's faced more than once. Nolan Arenado is 6 for 16 with a pair of doubles against Cashner, while DJ LeMahieu is 5 for 12 with a double. Also, Gerardo Parra is 4 for 9 with three walks. While Arenado is batting .462 with four home runs and eight RBIs during a six-game hitting streak, Parra enters hitting .359 with 10 RBIs during his own eight-game run. Eddie Butler (0-0, 3.86) will take the mound for Colorado after getting recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque on April 27. He was thrust into action that day, striking out four in 2 1/3 innings in relief of a 9-8, 12-inning loss to Pittsburgh." I didn't even know how to approach it," he said. The right-hander will make his first big league start since August after going 2-0 with a 4.09 ERA at Triple-A. He's 1-9 with a 6.91 ERA in his past 12 starts for the Rockies, allowing 78 hits in 57 1/3 innings. The damage wasn't all at Coors Field, either, as he held a 6.42 mark in seven on the road.
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