The Colorado Rockies signed Kris Bryant to a seven-year, $182 million megadeal this offseason with the expectation that he could routinely put the club on his shoulders and carry Colorado to victory.
That hadn’t been the case until Friday, when Bryant lived up to that billing with his first multi-homer game with the Rockies. The performance paced Colorado to a 6-5 win over Arizona in Game 2 of the series at Chase Field.
Bryant got Colorado going in the first with a homer to left, then went yard again in the seventh inning for the 17th multi-homer game of his career. He added a double in the ninth for 10 total bases. The Colorado bullpen did the rest after right-hander Chad Kuhl kept the visitors in a game that saw C.J. Cron and Jose Iglesias depart because of injury.
