Nolan Arenado hits 8th career grand slam, D-backs cruise in a 9-0 win over the Rockies

PHOENIX (AP) — Nolan Areando hit a grand slam in the first inning against his former team, Michael Soroka had a successful return on the mound and the Arizona Diamondbacks jumped out to a big early lead for a 9-0 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night.

The D-backs (64-56) moved to eight games above .500 for the first time this season.

Arenado hammered a fastball up in the zone from Gabriel Hughes over the left-field fence for his eighth career grand slam and second of the season. The eight-time All-Star played his first eight seasons in the big leagues with the Rockies.

The D-backs pushed their lead to 7-0 in the second with three more runs. Corbin Carroll had a run-scoring double, Ketel Marte brought home another run on a single and Geraldo Perdomo scored on a wild pitch.

Gabriel Moreno and Ryan Waldschmidt had two hits apiece.

Soroka — who missed nearly two months with a strained left glute — threw 4 1/3 scoreless innings in his return. The veteran right-hander gave up three hits, walked three and struck out four.

Zack Littell (1-0) made his D-backs debut in relief, giving up two hits and two walks over 4 2/3 innings. The 30-year-old righty was signed on Monday after getting released by the Washington Nationals.

The only major blemish in Arizona's win was that shortstop Geraldo Perdomo left the game after the fourth inning with left knee soreness.

Hughes (0-4) gave up seven runs on five hits and three walks over four innings. He struck out three.

The Rockies have lost six of their last seven.

The Diamondbacks start LHP Mitch Bratt (1-1, 3.90 ERA) on Tuesday night vs. Rockies RHP Tomoyuki Sugano (11-5, 4.51).

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Arizona Diamondbacks center fielder Ryan Waldschmidt catches a ball hit by Colorado Rockies' Hunter Goodman in the sixth inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug 10, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Gabriel Moreno watches his triple against the Colorado Rockies in the second inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug 10, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Colorado Rockies pitcher Gabriel Hughes throws against the Arizona Diamondbacks in the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug 10, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Michael Soroka throws against the Colorado Rockies in the first inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug 10, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

Arizona Diamondbacks' Nolan Arenado, right, celebrates with Tyler Locklear, back left, and Lars Nootbaar (21) after hitting a grand slam against the Colorado Rockies in the second inning of a baseball game, Monday, Aug 10, 2026, in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

TORONTO (AP) — Anthony Seigler scored from third base on a sacrifice fly Monday night — without ever tagging up on an inning-ending play.

Needless to say, that left everyone in Toronto a little confused.

Seigler scored Boston's only run in a 2-1 loss to the Blue Jays on a chaotic double play that resulted in a 17-minute delay trying to sort out the whole thing.

“We kind of got a break there,” Red Sox interim manager Chad Tracy said.

While there was only one out when Ceddanne Rafaela hit a flyball to center field in the seventh, the scoreboard showed two outs. The ball was still in the air when Seigler headed toward the plate and Nick Sogard took off from first base.

When the ball was caught and the Blue Jays eventually tossed it to first to double up Sogard, that was the third out and it appeared Toronto still led 2-0 as players headed to the dugout.

Blue Jays manager John Schneider said everyone assumed the inning was over when plate umpire Charlie Ramos “waved off the run,” and said that during all the confusion he was never given the opportunity to appeal Seigler not tagging up from third.

Umpires then started discussing the bizarre play. There were separate conversations with both managers before conferring with MLB's replay center for a rules check on what crew chief Chris Guccione said was a timing play and not a force play.

In the end, because Seigler crossed home plate before Sogard was called out at first, and Toronto never appealed the runner leaving third base early, the run was awarded to the Red Sox.

“We felt like it was our obligation to correct the error for not scoring the run originally,” Guccione said.

“The rule is the rule. ... So if the run scores from third, no matter what he did tagging up, or not, before the out is recorded at first, the run counts,” Schneider said. “Now, if we had just thrown the ball to third instead of first, obviously different story.”

Guccione told a pool reporter after the game that the Blue Jays would have had to appeal at third base before leaving the field to prevent that run.

“After consulting with MLB, they told me that all of my players were across the third base line before Charlie waved off the run, which I 100% disagree with,” Schneider said. “I don’t know if Vlad is that fast after he got the ball at first.”

But even some Blue Jays appeared to think the catch by center fielder Brett Batemen was the third out of the inning. Toronto reliever Simeon Woods Richardson and catcher Brandon Valenzuela both turned their back to the play and were going to the dugout even before second baseman Josh Smith got the ball from Bateman and threw to first baseman Vladimir Guerrero Jr.

“It was a weird, very weird situation, where the players on both sides seemed to be confused on the outs,” Tracy said.

“Going forward, when that play happens again in the next 100 years, if it’s us, we will record the lead out at third,” Schneider said. “That’s the best I got.”

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Toronto Blue Jays' Charles McAdoo (26) reacts as he is doused with a sports drink after the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Boston Red Sox in a baseball game in Toronto, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Toronto Blue Jays' Vladimir Guerrero Jr. (27) celebrates after the Toronto Blue Jays defeated the Boston Red Sox in a baseball game in Toronto, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)

Boston Red Sox's Ceddanne Rafaela, right, flies into a sacrifice double play that was reviewed with a time play allowing Anthony Seigler (not shown) to score against the Toronto Blue Jays during the seventh inning of a baseball game in Toronto, Monday, Aug. 10, 2026. (Sammy Kogan/The Canadian Press via AP)