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for is a total game,” Black said of Gray. “There have been a couple of games you can say Jon pitched well in the entirety. That’s the trick for Jon or any pitcher, to pitch a really good game in its entirety.”

The Rockies surrounded Gray with offense, filling up a scorebook with two runs in the first, three in the second, one in the third, five in the fourth, and three in the fifth and seventh.

Trevor Story, who homered Tuesday in a sparkless loss short of offense, doubled that total Wednesday. He twice placed baseballs in the left-field seats, the first a two-run shot off reliever Luke Jackson in the fourth, the next a threerun looper off Max Fried in the seventh. Story’s six RBIs tied his career high, and he now sits at 18 home runs for the season.

LeMahieu was right behind. He tagged a double and three singles for his fifth game of at least four hits this season, most in the National League. And »denverpost.com/rockies he scored four runs. Gerardo Parra finished with three hits and four RBIs. Arenado doubled twice. Mark Reynolds hit a solo homer, went 3-for-5 and had four RBIs. Jonathan Lucroy doubled twice. It was a parade of offense.

Story, Parra and Reynolds became just the second trio of Rockies to finish with four or more RBIs in one game, after Vinny Castilla, Todd Helton and Mike Lansing each had four in a game in 1998.

Gray’s ace debate can wait. The Rockies’ most powerful pitcher has time to grow, certainly if his team is producing runs like a factory. They scored more runs in only one other game this season.

“First and foremost, you have to pass the test of time,” Black said, tabling the question of whether Gray is Colorado’s ace. “Eventually could he? Yes.”