With their backs against the wall in Thursday’s series finale against St. Louis, Colorado let loose with the lumber. The Rockies scored five runs with two outs in the eighth inning, propelling them to a 10-8 comeback victory at Coors Field. The retiring Charlie Blackmon was central in the rally, with a two-run homer, three runs scored and three RBIs. It appeared the Cardinals were on their way to a sweep after Sam Hilliard and Hunter Goodman both struck out swinging to begin the eighth, with Colorado down 8-5. But then the Rockies found a groove en route to hitting through the lineup. Jake Cave tripled. Aaron Schunk singled. Blackmon walked. Ezequiel Tovar hit his NL-leading 45th double to tie the game, and Ryan McMahon and Michael Toglia followed with doubles of their own to give Colorado its first lead of the day. All that made up for Kyle Freeland, in his 200th career start with the Rockies, struggling from the get-go. The Cardinals bum-rushed the southpaw for a pair of solo homers in the opening frame. Lars Nootbaar drilled a center-cut fastball into the right field seats, then the next batter, Paul Goldschmidt, hammered an elevated changeup 457 feet to center field. Those two swings left Freeland shaking his head on the mound. Colorado got the runs back in the bottom of the inning, thanks to some sketchy St. Louis defense. Thomas Saggese booted Blackmon’s grounder to start the frame, then a few batters later, Jordan Walker misplayed Toglia’s liner to right field allowing Blackmon to score. A Nolan Jones double followed to plate McMahon and tie the game. In the second inning, it was the Rockies turn for a defensive letdown. Jones committed two errors in the inning on a pair of misplays in left field that went off his glove. That, along with a Nootbaar double, gave the Cardinals a 5-2 lead. But Blackmon, who can soon focus full-time on fatherhood and fly fishing, got the Rockies back into the game. In the bottom of the second, the DH launched a two-run homer 393 feet to right field off Kyle Gibson that just cleared the out-of-town scoreboard. That gave Blackmon 227 career homers, pulling him into a tie with Carlos González for fifth in club history. Related Articles Colorado Rockies | 100 losses loom as Rockies’ offense no-shows in loss to Cardinals Colorado Rockies | Charlie Blackmon triples and doubles, but Cardinals cruise past Rockies Colorado Rockies | Keeler: Seeing Nolan Arenado, Charlie Blackmon together again reminds Rockies fans why they never should’ve broken up Colorado Rockies | As Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon approaches retirement, a lingering question: What will become of the beard? Colorado Rockies | Rockies’ Charlie Blackmon retiring after iconic 14-year career Then, his sacrifice fly in the fourth scored Jake Cave and tied the game 5-5. Freeland, however, gave the lead right back the next inning when Ivan Herrera homered 446 feet to center on another hanging changeup. After walking the next batter, Freeland’s day was done. After Jake Bird got Colorado out of the fifth and Victor Vodnik pitched a scoreless seventh, rookie right-hander Angel Chivilli faltered in the eighth inning when Pedro Pagés tagged him for a two-run homer to increase the visitors’ lead to 8-5. Colorado’s two-out, five-run rally in the eighth was the final momentum swing of the game as rookie right-hander Seth Halvorsen picked up the save. The Rockies need to take two of three from the Dodgers this weekend in to avoid their second straight 100-loss season. Blackmon will be in the lineup for all three games. Want more Rockies news? Sign up for the Rockies Insider to get all our MLB analysis.