Mariners Now 0-6 Against NL on Road

DENVER — The Seattle Mariners are perfect in interleague road games--perfectly awful.

The Mariners, 5-7 overall in interleague play, fell to 0-6 on the road, losing to the Colorado Rockies, 6-5, Friday night.

Rookie Todd Helton singled in the winning run with one out in the ninth after rookie Neifi Perez tied the score with an RBI triple.

The Rockies were trailing, 5-4, in the ninth when Jeff Reed singled with one out off Mike Timlin (3-3). Quinton McCracken then came in to pinch-run and Perez tripled over Rich Amaral in right-center before pinch-hitter Helton hit a sharp single to right.

Jerry Dipoto (4-2) struck out four of the five batters he faced.

Vinny Castilla, Larry Walker and Andres Galarraga all homered for Colorado. Galarraga hit a 459-foot homer, his 36th, to the same area of left-center where he hit the longest homer in Coors Field history (487 feet) on Thursday.

Ken Griffey Jr. didn’t homer in Colorado’s thin air for the second consecutive game, but Seattle’s Paul Sorrento hit a two-run shot and drove in three runs.

Griffey, tied with Mark McGwire for the major league lead with 43 home runs, went two for seven in the two-game series but failed to connect in Coors Field, baseball’s most hitter-friendly ballpark.

Sorrento had three hits and keyed an eighth-inning rally for Seattle. He hit a two-run homer in the first and had an RBI double in the eighth. Alex Rodriguez’s RBI single gave Seattle a 5-4 lead.

For the second consecutive night, the Rockies recorded the largest crowd in the three-year history of Coors Field. Friday’s crowd of 50,275 (including complimentary tickets) exceeded Thursday’s 50,269.

NEXT SERIES FOR DODGERS

WHO: Seattle Mariners

WHERE: Dodger Stadium

WHEN:

Today, 1 p.m.

Sunday, 1 p.m.