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Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki was amazed by his good fortune. The Los Angeles Dodgers were just happy to emerge from the longest game in the major leagues this season with a win.
Tulowitzki turned an unassisted triple play, and the Rockies beat the Atlanta Braves 9-7 Sunday on Matt Holliday's two-run homer in the 11th inning.
"It's amazing," Tulowitzki said. "It kind of just fell in my lap."
Brady Clark hit a go-ahead double in the 17th inning to help Los Angeles beat the San Diego Padres 5-4 in the longest game in Petco Park's four-year history.
Pittsburgh beat Houston 4-3 in 16 innings Wednesday in the majors' longest game before Sunday. The Pirates' win lasted 4 hours, 48 minutes and the Dodgers-Padres game took 4:55.
Several parks across the majors had a moment of silence for St. Louis reliever Josh Hancock, who died early Sunday when his sport utility vehicle slammed into the back of a tow truck. The Cardinals' game against the Chicago Cubs was postponed.
In other NL games, it was: Arizona 5, San Francisco 4; Philadelphia 6, Florida 1; New York Mets 1, Washington 0; Milwaukee 3, Houston 1; and Cincinnati 9, Pittsburgh 5.
At Coors Field, Kelly Johnson and Edgar Renteria singled for the Braves in the seventh inning and were running on a 3-2 pitch when Tulowitzki caught Chipper Jones' line drive behind second base. The rookie stepped on the bag to double up Johnson and then tagged Renteria for the third out.
Apparently unsure if he had completed the play properly, Tulowitzki went back and touched second base again, then threw to first. Nothing to worry about - the inning was already over.
It was the 13th unassisted triple play in major league history and first since shortstop Rafael Furcal did it for Atlanta on Sept. 10, 2003, against St. Louis.
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