Webb reverted to form: four runs, six innings.
"Maybe it's because we see him so much," said Matt Holliday. "Maybe it's because we're more familiar with him than some teams. Maybe that helps."
And maybe they're just really, really good.
It was the seventh time in the teams' last nine meetings the Rockies have won. All seven times the Rockies have held the D-backs to three runs or less.
Webb's opposite last night, 17-game winner Jeff Francis, helped continue that trend. He allowed one run over 6 2/3 innings - but that, too, followed form. Francis now is 8-2 in 15 career starts against the D-backs.
Francis - who lost on Sept. 28 to Webb - does it without a dominating fastball, and he relies on placement and changing speeds. He moved to 4-0 with a 1.35 earned-run average at Chase Field this season.
"I can't explain it," Francis said. "I think it's just a small sample size of me . . . having a good run against one team."
Webb was 8-7 in 21 career starts against the Rockies, so most of the damage done to him by that team was done this season. The most likely of Rockies hurt him in the telling, three-run third.
Willy Taveras, who spent the previous month on the disabled list with a strained right thigh, poked a one-out single to center, his seventh hit in 15 at-bats against Webb this year. He then stole second.
Kaz Matsui, who propelled the Rockies past the Phillies in the NL Division Series, rapped an RBI single to left-center to break a 1-1 tie. That moved Matsui to 9-for-19 against Webb this season.
Holliday's single put runners on first and second, and, after Todd Helton lined out and Webb's wild pitch moved the runners up a base, he walked Garrett Atkins.
That brought up Brad Hawpe, then 9-for-15 against Webb.
He's 10-for-16 now. Hawpe's two-run single made it 4-1.
"I just try to think properly when I'm up there," Hawpe said of his faceoffs with Webb. "He threw a curveball. Didn't try to do too much to it excect put the barrel of the bat on it."
