DENVER -- Brenton Doyle hit a walk-off, two-run homer in a five-run ninth inning, and the Colorado Rockies overcame a nine-run first-inning deficit to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 17-16 on Friday night.
The Rockies are the sixth team in major league history to win after surrendering nine first-inning runs, according to Elias Sports Bureau. Cleveland was the last to do it in 2006.
The Rockies are also the first team to win despite allowing 15 or more runs since the Boston Red Sox beat the Texas Rangers 19-17 in August 2008, according to ESPN Research.
Colorado trailed 16-12 before rallying off Dennis Santana (3-3). Hunter Goodman hit his 20th homer with one out. Jordan Beck walked and scored on rookie Warming Bernabel's first triple. Thairo Estrada had an RBI single, and Doyle hit his eighth home run with one out to win it.
Bernabel went 4-for-6 and hit his third homer for the Rockies -- a three-run shot in the third to cut it to 9-4. Ezequiel Tovar went 4-for-6 and tied a major league record with four doubles. Doyle also finished with four of Colorado's 22 hits. Rookie Yanquiel Fernndez hit his first homer -- a two-run shot off Yohan Ramrez in the eighth to get the Rockies within four.
Oneil Cruz hit his 18th homer and second career grand slam, and Andrew McCutchen added a three-run shot -- his 11th -- off Antonio Senzatela as the Pirates became just the second team in 132 years to score nine-plus runs in the first inning on 10-plus hits that included a slam and a three-run homer. Cincinnati did it against the Louisville Colonels on June 18, 1893.
McCutchen finished 3-for-5 with five RBIs. Reynolds had three of Pittsburgh's 18 hits and singled from both sides of the plate in the first -- the first Pirate to do so since Neil Walker in 2015, also in Denver. Nick Gonzales finished 4-for-6, and Isiah Kiner-Falefa had three hits and three RBIs.
Andrew Heaney lasted just 3 innings for Pittsburgh, allowing four runs -- three earned -- on seven hits.
Rookie Dugan Darnell (1-0) pitched two scoreless innings for his first win.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
