Nine-year-old Alex Stallings politely offered the baseball to Blake DeWitt, who had sent it flying over the rightfield wall at Security Service Field on Wednesday.

"Thanks, but you keep it," said DeWitt, who autographed the ball for wideeyed Alex.

DeWitt slugged two home runs - Rene Rivera also had a pair, and each collected four RBIs - as Las Vegas beat Colorado Springs 8-5.

DeWitt also visited with Alex's parents, whose parents are friends of DeWitt's folks in their hometown of Sikeston, Mo.

Alex, wearing a Los Angeles Dodgers hat, had asked the grounds crew to retrieve DeWitt's home run ball. The Stallings family spent time with the 23-year-old DeWitt earlier this season in Denver following a Dodgers game, when DeWitt was their starting third baseman.

Since joining Las Vegas on July 29, DeWitt had hit just.250 with two homers and 10 RBIs in 23 games.

"Just keep swinging and tonight they started falling," said DeWitt, who also doubled off the fence in right to make it 3-0 in the third.

The last time teammates hit a pair of homers against the Sky Sox was Aug. 6, 2005, by Prince Fielder and Corey Hart of Nashville.

Heath Totten (6-5) held the Sky Sox to five hits - and induced three double plays - through seven innings. The Sky Sox began the eighth inning with five hits and a walk, highlighted by tworun doubles courtesy of Cory Sullivan, who had four hits, and Matt Miller.

Scott Podsednik, on rehab from the Rockies, was 1-for-3. The Sky Sox loaded the bases in the ninth but didn't score.

Las Vegas' Andruw Jones became the highest-paid third-base coach in history in the third inning. Jones, 31, is on a rehab assignment due to a sore left knee but expects to play today.

"Before the inning, I looked up and saw Andruw coaching and wondered what he was doing there," DeWitt said.

Jones, in his first year with Los Angeles after 11 full seasons with Atlanta, has a two-year contract for $36 million. He's one of only 10 players in major league history to hit 300 home runs before the age of 30, with a high of 51 in 2005. Jones won his 10th straight Gold Glove as Atlanta's center fielder last season.

Notes

Cheyenne Mountain graduate Brandon McCarthy and Sky Sox first baseman Joe Koshansky earned Pacific Coast League honors last week. McCarthy was Pitcher of the Week and Koshansky was Hitter of the Week. In 13 innings for Oklahoma, Mc-Carthy didn't allow a run on just four hits and two walks. He struck out 11. Koshansky hit .611 (11-for-18) with four homers, three doubles, 15 RBIs and 12 runs. He hit for the cycle on Aug. 12 for the second time this season.... Reliever Ryan Speier was promoted to the Rockies when Colorado's Matt Herges went on the disabled list with a sore back.

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