DENVER — Ubaldo Jimenez pitched the second complete game of his career and had an RBI single to help the Colorado Rockies extend their winning streak to nine games with a 6-4 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night.
The Rockies’ franchise record is 11 consecutive wins from Sept. 16-27, 2007.
Jimenez (5-6) allowed four runs and eight hits and struck out three.
Troy Tulowitzki had a home run and Dextor Fowler drove in a run with a squeeze bunt for the Rockies who are 11-4 since manager Jim Tracy took over for Clint Hurdle on May 29.
Adrian Beltre drove in two runs with a double and Russell Branyan hit his 15th homer for the Mariners, who had won four of five.
Jarrod Washburn (3-5) allowed five runs, four earned, and six hits in six innings.
Branyan hit a 1-2 breaking ball into the Colorado bullpen in right center with one out in the first inning to give Seattle a 1-0 lead.
The Mariners made it 3-0 in the third inning on Beltre’s bases-loaded double. Washburn reached on a fielder’s choice, Ichiro Suzuki singled and Branyan drew a walk ahead of Beltre’s drive off the left field wall one out.
Colorado got two runs back in its half of the third on Todd Helton’s two-out RBI single and on a throwing error by Washburn that pulled Branyan off the bag at first and allowed Barmes to score.
Rob Johnson’s RBI double over Ryan Spilborghs in left center in made it 4-2 in the fourth. Tulowitzki homered to straightaway center in the bottom half.
Washburn walked Tulowitzki and hit Ian Stewart to start the sixth and one out later Jimenez, a .263 hitter, slapped a single past Branyan at first to score Tulowitzki and tie the game at 4. Fowler gave the Rockies the lead, 5-4 with a squeeze bunt.
The Rockies loaded the bases, but Washburn got out of further trouble by retiring Helton and Hawpe.
The Rockies got an unearned run in the seventh inning off Miguel Batista to make it 6-4. Tulowitzki walked, stole second and moved to third when catcher Rob Johnson threw the ball into center field and scored on Batista’s wild pitch.
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