DENVER -- Jon Gray was closing in on his first complete game when everything unraveled with eight outs to go.Instead of a breakthrough win, he wound up with a tough loss.Socrates Brito snapped a seventh-inning tie with a three-run homer off the Rockies right-hander, and the Arizona Diamondbacks held off a late rally to beat Colorado 8-5 on Sunday.The home run spoiled a great start for Gray (9-7), who was cruising along until he ran into trouble in the seventh.My fastball was working, I was getting ahead of guys and getting quick outs, he said. That is what kept it efficient. I wanted to go deep into the game. I felt like I could have gone 20 innings.Gray had allowed a run in the first inning on a sacrifice fly but retired 17 of 19 batters before Arizona roughed him up in the seventh.Trailing 2-1, the Diamondbacks tied it with three straight one-out singles. Brito made it 5-2 when he hit Grays first-pitch fastball into the second deck in right-center field.Hes got a good fastball and I wasnt trying to do too much, Brito said. Hes a guy that throws a lot of fastballs, so I was always looking fastball.It was his third of the season and the first home run off Gray in 22 1/3 innings.He was in complete control the entire game, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. Then he had baserunners there in the seventh.Pinch-hitter Tom Murphy belted a solo homer off Patrick Corbin in the bottom of the inning, but Brandon Drurys two-run single in the eighth gave Arizona a four-run lead.Murphys home run carried an estimated 482 feet.He put the whole barrel on it, so when you get it airborne it goes a long way, Weiss said.The Diamondbacks added a run in the ninth and then had to withstand Colorados comeback attempt. The Rockies scored twice on a single and a wild pitch, but Daniel Hudson struck out DJ LeMahieu and Carlos Gonzalez with two runners on to end it.Archie Bradley (6-8) scattered six hits over six innings and Jean Segura had three hits for Arizona.TRAINERS ROOMRockies: OF Charlie Blackmon was out of the lineup for the second straight game with back tightness. Weiss said Blackmon has improved and was getting treatment. He could return Monday.STREAKSPaul Goldschmidt failed to reach base for the first time in 51 games against the Rockies. He was 0 for 4 with a sacrifice fly. He struck out looking in the ninth with a chance to prolong the streak. ... LeMahieu extended his streak of reaching base safely to 21 games with a single in the first.FIRST IMPRESSIONSRockies rookie Raimel Tapia was 3 for 5 in his second start since being recalled Friday. He also got his first stolen base.UP NEXTRockies RHP Chad Bettis (11-7, 5.17 ERA) opens a three-game series against San Francisco on Monday. 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Jones is third in Xfinity points, 10 behind Daniel Suarez, who has a one-point lead over Elliott Sadler.Because none of the Xfinity contenders won, all four spots are open next weekend in Phoenix. For the finale at Homestead, no Cup drivers will be on the grid with the title on the line.The toughest part of our chase is racing the Cup guys, Jones said. Had there been no Cup guys in the race, we would have won today and advanced. Yeah, were still going to chase a win [in Phoenix]. Youve still got to be points racing and thinking about advancing at the same time.Larson held off Keselowski for his first Xfinity win in Texas and second of the season despite a brush with the wall with about five laps remaining. He said he should have won the fall Xfinity race in Texas a year ago, but cut a tire late in the race.I looked up in the mirror and I was like, Ah, great, here he comes. Hes probably going to have a big run, Larson said about Keselowski, who closed within a couple of car lengths on the final lap. Actually, after that, I thought it tightened my car up and made it easier to drive up there.Larson lled for the final 30 laps after Keselowski dominated most the race, leading 145.ddddddddddddSuarez finished fifth despite a battery problem that had him worried about finishing the race. A bad alternator forced him to cut power less than halfway through, and he said he managed to keep his main battery alive until about final 40 laps.We were a little lucky that we had the issue right in the middle of the race, Suarez said. Maybe 20, 30 more laps and who knows if we were going to finish the race or not.While Suarez and Sadler are separated by a point at the top, the same is true for the final qualifying spot, barring a win from those with a bigger deficit.Blake Koch finished 14th -- seventh among the eight title contenders -- and is fourth in points and 16 behind Suarez. Justin Allgaier, who finished 10th after spinning out 72 laps into the race, is another point back.Ryan Reed, Darrell Wallace Jr. and Brendan Gaughan are all at least five points out of the final qualifying spot, but any of the eight can get into the final four with a win in Phoenix.At that point it is your whole season, Reed said. There is nothing left to lose there. You arent points racing at that per se. You have to go beat those guys by five positions.Gaughan faces a potential 10-point penalty for his car being too low in postrace inspection. Harvicks car also was too low, and the JR Motorsports No. 88 team also faces a potential 10-point penalty.ESPNs Bob Pockrass and The Associated Press contributed to this report. ' ' '
