Former Philadelphia Phillies prospect Mickey Moniak clubbed two home runs to help propel the Colorado Rockies past his former team as the Phillies lineup mustered just one run in a 4-1 loss in the series finale on Easter Sunday snapping their four-game winning streak.
Moniak put together his third-career multi-homer game blasting a solo shot in the bottom of the first inning before adding a second solo homer in the sixth.
Taijuan Walker's afternoon appeared to get off to a good start with a strikeout and groundout to open his outing, but Moniak crushed a fastball 433 feet to give the Rockies an early 1-0 lead.
After a single, Walker served up another long ball in the inning to T.J. Rumfield for a two-run shot to put the Phillies down 3-0.
In the second inning, Adolís Garcia clubbed his second homer of the season over the right field wall to make it 3-1 game. Moniak added his second homer of the game in the sixth inning.
The Phillies' lineup however was held in check against Tomoyuki Sugano who struggled last year in his first season in the bigs with Baltimore pitching to a 4.64 ERA in 30 starts giving up the third-most home runs of any starting pitcher.
The righty turned in a quality start tossing six innings of one-run ball. He allowed four hits, the lone run, one walk and struckout five.
Walker suffered the loss working five innings, giving up four earned runs on seven hits with three of them leaving the yard while walking two and striking out four.
The righty has now allowed 10 earned runs across 9 2/3 innings in his first two starts of the season.
Once Walker was pulled, Tim Mayza, Tanner Banks and Kyle Backhus retired all nine batters they faced for three scoreless innings. It was the fourth straight scoreless appearance for Mayza to open up the season.
However, the Phillies were stymied by Colorado's bullpen getting just three base runners aboard over the final four innings. They did try to mount a ninth inning rally, bringing the tying run to the plate. Marsh and Marchan both struckout to close out the game.
Garcia led the way offensively with a pair of hits.
Both Trea Turner and Marsh each pushed their hitting streak to six games. Marsh extended his in his first at-bat lacing a double to left centerfield. Turner blooped a double down the right field line in the fifth inning to keep his going.
The six-gamers are the longest by any Phillies hitter so far on the young season.
The Phillies continue their West Coast swing beginning a three-game set at San Francisco on Monday.
Right-handed rookie Andrew Painter (1-0, 1.69 ERA) makes his second big league start and will go against fellow righty Adrian Houser (0-1, 1.69 ERA).
First pitch is scheduled for 9:45 ET.
