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DENVER -- The Rockies struck out in their bid to make up ground against a last-place team.Colorado tied a season high by fanning 15 times in an 11-3 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.This after striking out 12 times the night before.Colorado has whiffed 12 times or more in consecutive home games for the first time in franchise history, according to the team.In losing two of three to last-place Tampa Bay, the Rockies were outscored 25-11 and outhit 35-24 with 31 strikeouts.We understood that we were going to face a team that is having a tough time, Rockies outfielder Carlos Gonzalez said. We are in a situation where weve got to make things happen -- and it didnt happen.Archer (5-13) struck out 11 over six innings for his first win since June 6. He also took some inspiration from rookie Blake Snell, who pitched a gem the night before. Archer went out and tried to duplicate it.Nearly did, too.Archer allowed two runs and four hits to halt a slide in which he had lost six of seven starts.Archer struck us out a lot today and pitched well, said Gonzalez, who scored a run in the eighth, his 600th as a member of the Rockies. He mixed his pitches where he needs to and as a hitter it was frustrating not being able to score runs.Evan Longoria kept up his hot hitting with two doubles as the Rays captured their first road series since June 6-8 at Arizona. Longoria turned in a big series with two doubles, two triples, a homer and five RBI.Jorge De La Rosa (6-7) lasted only four innings and gave up nine runs, seven of them earned. He usually fares well at Coors Field -- with a better home ERA (4.27) than on the road (4.38) since joining Colorado.Everything was bad, De La Rosa explained. I threw pitches where I dont have to throw them.Tampa Bay trailed 2-1 before breaking open the game with three runs in third and five more in the fourth.Former Rockies outfielder Corey Dickerson had three hits, including a triple, to increase his career average in this park to .360. He was traded to the Rays last January for reliever Jake McGee.With two doubles Wednesday, Longoria has 50 extra base hits this season. Only one other Tampa Bay player, Aubrey Huff in 2003, had that many through 94 games.Archer allowed two runs in the second but quickly settled into a groove. He struck out the side in the fourth and the sixth -- his last pitch a 96 mph fastball that Mark Reynolds couldnt hit.We saw two guys the last two days that throw a lot of good breaking balls, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. Snell had a real good slider. Archer had a real good slider. That was the common denominator the last two games.TRAINERS ROOMRays: OF Kevin Kiermaier got the day off.FEELING PRESIDENTIALWeiss is playfully campaigning for his man: Gerardo Parra.Weiss wore a Parra for President T-shirt before the game. The shirts were created as a joke before the season and Parras teammates constantly wear them.More pressing than getting Parra into the White House is getting him back on the field. The outfielder is on the disabled list with a sprained left ankle.THIS & THATRockies hitting coach Blake Doyle was throw out in the second inning for something he said from the dugout to home plate umpire Paul Emmel concerning the strike zone. ... There was a review over a tag at home plate in the second inning that lasted 6 minutes, 28 seconds, and had players just standing around. Archer threw warmup pitches. ... 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It literally felt as if he had done his very best. I am just emotional.?Dujardin is now level with Laura Trotts record of three Olympic golds after a performance which narrowly missed her own 2014 world record score of 94.300 percent.She also draws level with Richard Meades previous record of three equestrian golds as she produced a test with wonderful poise, agility and all to the beat of the samba drum.Though the local crowd favoured Spains Severo Jesus Jurado Lopezs routine, clapping along to the final tones of Bon Jovi as he rode one-handed, it was Dujardins test that was pitch-perfect under the beating sun.At London 2012 Dujardins gold medal-winning routine was to the booming sound of Land of Hope and Glory and aspects from The Great Escape yet here there was a Brazilian theme to her routine.She mixed in melodies from the film Rio -- something American Simone Biles also utitlised in her gold medal-winning floor routine in the gymnastics -- as Valegro went from half-pass, to pirouettes, to the remarkable piaffe while working in wonderful harmony with his brilliant rider.It was an amazing feeling in there, Dujardin said. I had a really lovely time. I was grinning because this could be the last time and I thought Id go in there and give it everything for a horse. I think he knew I was thinking that. He just looked after me, helped me, did his best.It was a mesmeric occasion at the dressage and the setting seemed fitting giving dressages military and Olympian roots. Back in 350BC Xenophon, a pupil of Socrates, was exiled from Athens to Olympia after being caught masquerading as a mercenary under a Spartan general.There, in the birth place of the modern Olympic Games, he penned the seminal work On Horsemanship, a guide for training and caring for horses in the military. Inadvertently, he became a forefather of dressage.Here in the heart of the Latin Americas biggest military zone Vila Militar, the 18 riders honoured Xenaphons prophetic guidance -- Anything forced or misunderstood, can never be beautiful -- as the horses worked wonderffully in tandem with their riders.ddddddddddddThere is something hypnotic about the sport. As they enter the arena, there is the briefest of run ups, the hint of whats to come and then drama-building silence. And then with perfect precision and timing the floor plan starts.The crowd favoured Juardo Lopezs routine and his score of 83.553 percent, which they deemed low, was greeted with boos unfitting for the general feeling of the test. He failed to get a spot on the podium and below Dujardin, Germanys Isabell Werth, the 18th and final rider, snuck in to take silver with 89.071 percent leaving her teammate Kristina Broring-Sehere in third.In the only Olympic sport where men and women compete alongside each other, it was the women who dominated.For Dujardin, who won silver in the grand prix team event last week alongside Hester, the floor plan was a gamble. She had only ridden it once, at Hartpury, and she introduced aspects of the routine on the day of the competition.There was a feeling of unease. For the first time ever, she said to me Im nervous and shes never said that to me in 10 years, Hester said. I could see that on her face and I said to her: Todays about you and nobody else, so please dont ruin your Olympics experience by being nervous now!As Dujardin headed into the arena, the nerves vanished. As soon as I got in there and trotted around the outside, Valegro gave me the most amazing feeling, she said. It put a smile on my face and I knew I was fine. It made everything go away and thats what that horse can do.He can give you confidence like I cant tell. Hes the biggest support, hes a rock. If you feel insecure, he gives you that hug and you feel alright. To go out there and do what I did, faultless, how many horses can do that? Its so rare hes made a mistake. I feel so lucky and privileged to have done what I have with him.For Dujardin, thoughts now turn to the future. Valegro, born in 2002, is nearing the end of his competitive time but Dujardin will not settle for just three golds. She is keen to add further honours to her lengthy list of accolades of three Olympic, five European and two World Equestrian Games golds.I owe it to him to finish at the top, Dujardin said. Ive done it, Ive lived it and Im going to make sure it happens again. He is a once-in-a-lifetime horse.Its another huge challenge to recreate and do it all again. There will never be another Valegro and I dont want anyone ever to compare another horse I ride to him. But its a huge achievement to be able to repeat and get to another Olympic Games. ' ' '