Merrill Kelly turned in another strong outing in his last start, striking out 11 Rockies, allowing one hit and three walks in seven shutout innings.

Merrill Kelly extended his string of dominant outings, firing 7 innings of 1-hit ball to lead the Diamondbacks to a 1-0 win over the Colorado Rockies.

Merrill Kelly struck out a season-high 11 while giving up one hit over seven innings, Ketel Marte homered and the Arizona Diamondbacks edged the Colorado Rockies 1-0.

D-backs bench coach Jeff Banister was ejected in the seventh inning in a 14-12 loss against the lowly Colorado Rockies for a disengagement discrepancy.

Tovar, who had a career-high five hits, fell a double short of hitting for the cycle. Tovar (5 for 6) singled in the first, hit a 425-foot leadoff homer off veteran right-hander Zac Gallen in the third, tripled in the fourth (but was left stranded), and singled again in the seventh and ninth.

The two offenses combined for 26 runs on 34 hits and set a season-high for MLB with 36+ hard-hit balls in the game. The 14-12 victory for the Rockies handed Arizona their first loss in franchise history when they have scored 12 or more runs in a game, making them 151-1 in that category.

Zac Gallen is coming off a so-so start as far as numbers go, with four runs and 10 hits allowed in 5 ⅔ innings of a loss to the Dodgers on May 11.

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