Normally a solid defender, Reynolds made a pair of throwing errors during the frame that helped allow the Rockies to score a run and tie the game at 2.

The first error, he had trouble getting the ball out of his glove, then he had trouble finding the handle, and his throw was in the dirt and skipped past second baseman Orlando Hudson.

"I threw it with four fingers on it," Reynolds said.

The second one came one out later, when he fielded a routine grounder by Jayson Nix and his throw to first sailed high -- pulling Conor Jackson off the bag. Because he had plenty of time to throw, you could almost see Reynolds thinking as he set up for the throw across the diamond.

"When that type of thing happens, it's typically when you have too much time to think about it," Arizona manager Bob Melvin said. "We've seen this guy be a plus defender, and I don't know that there have been too many big leaguers that have been around for a while that haven't made a couple of errors in a game."

"It was just in my head a little bit," Reynolds said. "That's my problem, I think about things too much."

When he returned to the dugout at the end of the inning, Melvin, knowing that Reynolds has a tendency to get down on himself, sought him out immediately.

"I said, 'Hey, it happens, you've saved us a lot more times than we've picked you up, and we're going to pick you up right here and the rest of the game. You're going to go out and do your thing the way you normally do,'" Melvin said.

Reynolds did just that in the eighth when he slid to his right to make a nice play on Ryan Spilborghs' two-out, bases-loaded smash. The play saved at least two runs and ended the Rockies' rally.

"The play of the game, really," Melvin said. "That thing sneaks through there and it's a different ballgame. There aren't too many third basemen with the range he has over there. It wasn't his best game early on, but he finished it off very well."