DENVER (AP) — Eugenio Suarez homered in consecutive innings to reach 300 for his career Friday night in the Arizona Diamondbacks’ game against the Colorado Rockies.
Suarez field off Austin Gomber to it in the fifth, then connected off reliever Ryan Rolison in the sixth, that made it 11-7.
The 33-year-old third baseman leads Arizona with 24 homers. He has nine home runs in June and six over his last eight games. He has at least 21 home runs in each of the last nine full seasons, hitting a a career-high 49 with Cincinnati in 2019.
Suarez is third in homers among Venezuelan-born players in majors, trailing only Miguel Cabrera (511) and Andres Galarraga (399).
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