GONZALEZ LIKELY PLAYED HIS LAST GAME AT COORS

PHOENIX» Carlos Gonzalez probably played his final regular season game at Coors Field on Sunday with the same overflowing joy that carried him through nine seasons with the Rockies.

“I just went out there with a smile and everybody was smiling,” he said. And he wore that smile Wednesday evening. There was Gonzalez in the visitors’ dugout at Chase Field grinning for photos with Gerardo Parra and hooting at jokes with Vinny Castilla before the wild-card game against Arizona.

His contract, and his career with Colorado, will probably end the day after the World Series. Rockies general manager Jeff Bridich would not commit to anything beyond that.

“He’s been a great Rockie for a long period of time,” Bridich said before the wildcard game. “There is a time and a place for all the other business elements and outside-the-lines type of stuff that comes up in this industry.”

Bridich deferred a decision on Gonzalez’s future with the Rockies until the offseason. Bridich specifically sought out Gonzalez for a bear hug in the team’s clubhouse celebration Saturday night after the team clinched a wild-card berth. Going forward, their backand-forth will be based on business.

“I think it’s just a healthy respect for each other,” Bridich said. “We always wanted CarGo to be involved in this process. We always envisioned him being on this team when we got back to the playoffs. I think I can probably speak for him in this, and I’ll speak for the rest of the organization, in that we’re really happy that he’s around to experience this with us.”

Gonzalez said he does not know how his future with the Rockies will unfold, “but there are no regrets, no hard feelings, no sadness.”

Descalso returns.

The Rockies signed Daniel Descalso away from the Cardinals in 2015, hoping the veteran infielder could lend his experience to a young club in a run to the playoffs. They never made it together.

But Descalso ended up with the Diamondbacks this year to fill the same role. His 403-foot, two-run home run to right field off Tyler Anderson in the third inning pushed Arizona to a 6-0 lead.

Descalso saw a postseason run coming from the Diamondbacks when he signed. “The record they had last year was not indicative of the talent this team has,” he said.

Footnotes.

Rockies righthander Adam Ottavino, who early in the 2015 season was Colorado’s closer before suffering Tommy John surgery to repair his pitching elbow, was left off Wednesday’s 25-man playoff roster. He struggled to a 5.06 ERA this season as manager Bud Black lost confidence in Ottavino’s grasp of late innings. … Right-hander Scott Oberg deftly stopped the bleeding in relief of Jon Gray in the second inning. He struck out Paul Goldschmidt and J.D. Martinez with a runner on third base. … Arizona’s Ketel Marte became just the eighth player in baseball history to hit two triples in one postseason game. — Nick Groke, The