Denver, CO (Sports Network) - Micah Owings tossed 6 2/3 solid innings, as the Arizona Diamondbacks downed Colorado, 8-1, in the Rockies home opener at Coors Field.

Owings (1-0) allowed one run on two hits and registered a career-high nine strikeouts. The Diamondbacks hurler retired 17 players in a row after Willy Taveras doubled to begin the game. Chad Qualls and Juan Cruz combined for 2 1/3 hitless innings in relief.

"I tried to remind myself to pitch my game, and take each pitch one at a time, and do the best i could," Owings said.

Justin Upton had three hits, while Mark Reynolds went 2-for-4 with three RBI and two runs scored for Arizona, which had lost two of three in Cincinnati to begin the season. The Diamondbacks pounded out 13 hits after being limited to one in Thursday's 3-2 loss to the Reds. Orlando Hudson drove in a pair of runs, while Chris Young and Chris Burke scored two runs apiece.

Mark Redman (0-1) was saddled with the loss after giving five runs -- four earned -- on nine hits over 5 2/3 frames. Aside from Taveras' double, Todd Helton's first home run of the season was the only other hit Colorado recorded.

Matt Holliday finished 0-for-4 with four strikeouts for the Rockies, who have dropped three straight after opening the season with a 2-1 win at St. Louis.

"It's early," Colorado manager Clint Hurdle said. "We're coming out of the shoot, and a lot of guys are trying to make too much happen too soon. So we'll find a way to slow things down, and we'll get better at it."

The Rockies held a pre-game ceremony to commemorate their improbable run last season, when they mounted a 13th-inning rally against the game's all-time saves leader, Trevor Hoffman, and defeated the San Diego Padres in a one-game playoff to clinch the NL Wild Card, then went on to sweep Philadelphia in the NLDS and Arizona in the NLCS before losing to Boston in the World Series.

The Diamondbacks jumped all over Redman in the first inning, forcing him to throw 35 pitches in the frame. Eric Byrnes worked a walk to load the bases with one out and Chris Snyder followed with an RBI single to center that plated Young. Reynolds then smacked a two-run double to left field, extending the lead to 3-0.

Arizona threatened again the second, but the Rockies escaped on a close play at second base. With runners on first and third and two out, Byrnes hit a hard groundball that Troy Tulowitzki bobbled, but the shortstop managed to recover in time to get the force out at second.

In the fifth inning, Reynolds blasted his first home run of the season over the left-field wall and Hudson added an RBI single in the sixth for a 5-0 Diamondbacks lead.

After Upton crushed Matt Herges' 0-1 offering into the stands beyond the left- field wall in the seventh, Helton led off the bottom-half of the frame with a line-drive home run to right.

Arizona got the run back in the eighth on Hudson's RBI double, and a pinch-hit RBI single by Augie Ojeda in the ninth accounted for the final margin.