Rockies pitching blasted in 12-8 loss to Marlins

Twenty runs, 30 hits, five homers, and two hours and 58 minutes of baseball — or was it pinball? — at Coors Field.

The last team standing was the Marlins, who scored a 12-8 win on Thursday afternoon to salvage a split in the four-game series between the two worst teams in the National League.

Colorado’s hit parade was long and loud but not enough to overcome bad pitching:

• Center fielder Brenton Doyle finished a triple short of the cycle, hitting a double in the second, a solo homer in the third (No. 22), and an RBI single in the sixth. He drew a two-out walk in his final at-bat in the ninth.

• In the sixth, shortstop Ezequiel Tovar hit his 40th double, becoming the first Rockies player with 40 or more doubles since Charlie Blackmon hit 42 in 2019. Tovar is just the second Colorado shortstop to hit 40 doubles, joining Trevor Story, who hit 42 in 2018.

• Second baseman Brendan Rodgers hit solo homers in the third and fourth innings and added an infield single in the sixth. It was the second multi-homer game of Rodgers’ career. He’s hit 12 long balls this season.

• Rookie catcher Drew Romo hit a two-run double off the right-field fence in Colorado’s four-run fourth.