Mickey Moniak homers twice as Rockies top Phillies 4-1

DENVER (AP) — Mickey Moniak homered twice and the Colorado Rockies defeated the Philadelphia Phillies 4-1 on Sunday to salvage the finale of a three-game series.

Tomoyuki Sugano (1-0) struck out five and gave up one run in six innings for the Rockies.

T.J. Rumfield also homered for Colorado, hitting a two-run shot in a three-run first inning. Rumfield is hitting .345 with two home runs and five RBIs in his first nine games.

Victor Vodnik struck out Rafael Marchán with runners on first and second in the ninth inning to earn his first save of the season.

It was Moniak’s third career multi-home run game. The 27-year-old outfielder, who is in his second season in Colorado, was selected by the Phillies with the No. 1 overall pick in the 2016 MLB Draft and played for the franchise from 2020-22.

Adolis García homered in the second inning for Philadelphia. The loss snapped a four-game win streak for the Phillies, who left seven runners on base.

Taijuan Walker (0-2) took the loss for Philadelphia after giving up seven hits, four earned runs and three home runs in five innings.

Phillies: RHP Andrew Painter (1-0, 1.69 ERA) will take the mound against RHP Adrian Houser (0-1, 1.69) and the host San Francisco Giants on Monday.

Rockies: RHP Ryan Feltner (0-0) will face off against the visiting Houston Astros on Monday.

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Philadelphia Phillies left fielder Brandon Marsh pulls in a fly ball off the bat of Colorado Rockies pinch-hitter Kyle Karros in the seventh inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado Rockies' Mickey Moniak gestures as he circles the bases after hitting a solo home run off Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Taijuan Walker in the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Philadelphia Phillies first baseman Bryce Harper puts on his hat and heads to his position after lining out to end the top of the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Colorado Rockies Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Colorado Rockies' Mickey Moniak gestures to the bullpen as he circles the bases after hitting a solo home run off Philadelphia Phillies starting pitcher Taijuan Walker in the fifth inning of a baseball game Sunday, April 5, 2026, in Denver. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

TROY, Ala. (AP) — A series of police pursuits have led to at least eight deaths around the country in less than a week amid ongoing calls from some law enforcement experts to curb risky high speed car chases.

In Texas, a man fleeing from police died Sunday. In Alabama, four people died when a car being pursued by a state trooper went off a road and hit a tree Friday. And in California, three people were killed in vehicle crashes during police pursuits in separate incidents last week.

The deadly incidents are among the hundreds of fatalities that occur during police chases each year.

In 2023, a report from the Police Executive Research Forum, a national think tank on policing standards, called for police to put the brakes on car chases unless a violent crime has been committed and the suspect poses an imminent threat. The report noted a spike in fatalities and an increase in pursuits by some departments, including in Houston and New York City.

In the case in Alabama, a driver was trying to elude the Alabama Law Enforcement Agency's highway patrol on a rural road in southeast Alabama's Pike County when the crash occurred late Friday night, agency spokeswoman Amanda Wasden said in an email Sunday. No other vehicles were involved.

The driver and two passengers, one of them a 17-year-old, were not wearing seat belts and were thrown from the sedan. A third passenger was not ejected, but all four were pronounced dead at the scene.

Wasden said the crash was under investigation, and no additional information was available. Her email did not say what prompted the pursuit.

In Fort Worth, Texas, police had been pursuing a car which had been driving without headlights on Interstate 35 when the car hit multiple other vehicles and eventually crashed, killing the driver, according to the Fort Worth Police Department.

In southern California, the Pomona Police Department said in a statement that its officers were pursuing a fleeing domestic violence suspect Wednesday when his car hit another vehicle, killing the couple inside. The two were days away from the birth of their child, according to KCBS-TV.

In another case, the Orange County Sheriff's Department said that deputies had attempted to stop a stolen U-Haul truck before it slammed into an SUV, killing the SUV's driver and critically injuring her three passengers.

FILE - Lights flash on top of a police car in Philadelphia, Jan. 17, 2022. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)