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PHOENIX -- The Arizona Diamondbacks expected big things from Jean Segura this season. All this power is just a plus.Segura homered twice for the second consecutive game and finished with five hits as Arizona completed a three-game sweep of the Colorado Rockies with an 11-6 victory Wednesday night.Making a run at a 200-hit season, Segura had three singles, three RBI and scored three times. He has 182 hits with 17 games to play.He is just a good hitter, Arizona manager Chip Hale said. He is feeling good about himself and seeing the ball well. The power has surprised a little bit. The rest of (his) game, not at all.Segura and Charlie Blackmon of the Rockies each belted a leadoff homer. Chris Owings and Brandon Drury also went deep for the last-place Diamondbacks.Segura went 3 for 5 with two homers Tuesday night in Arizonas 11-4 win, and the second baseman acknowledged hes even surprised himself with his recent power display.Yeah, absolutely, he said. I didnt think I had that kind of power.He thinks having the roof open at Chase Field lately has probably helped him.Im trying to hit the ball through the middle. ... Solid contact, line drives, Segura said. I dont try to do too much.Blackmon and Nolan Arenado both had three hits for the Rockies. Blackmon was a double short of the cycle.Blackmon opened the game with a home run off Rubby De La Rosa, his ninth leadoff homer this season and the 21st of his career. DJ LeMahieu followed with a single, extending his on-base streak to 31 games.Segura led off the bottom of the first by launching a drive to center field off Jeff Hoffman, his sixth leadoff homer this year.After Jake Lamb walked, Yasmany Tomas ripped a run-scoring double to center.Segura hit a two-run homer in a five-run fifth. The Diamondbacks added a third run in the inning when Colorado catcher Tom Murphy dropped a throw, allowing Owings to score on a grounder by Lamb. They added two more on a run-scoring double by Drury and an RBI single by Socrates Brito.Hoffman (0-4) took the loss in his fifth major league start. He was a key figure in the 2015 trade that sent Troy Tulowitzki to Toronto.I thought he was sharp the first few innings, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. We saw glimpses and I think a lot of that due to the breaking ball.Hoffman said he felt a lot more comfortable than in his previous starts. He allowed seven runs, four earned, in 4 2/3 innings.I kind of fell apart there in the fifth, Hoffman said. Probably had the best game stuff since I have been here. At some point I have to put it together where I have both command and stuff.De La Rosa made 39 pitches in the first and, after he started the second with a walk, was removed by Hale.Braden Shipley (4-3) won in relief. Shipley gave up a two-run homer in the sixth to Daniel Descalso that cut the lead to 7-3, but Arizona got the runs back when Segura singled and Owings homered in the bottom half.Colorado scored three in the seventh by stringing together four hits to start the inning.Phil Gosselin scored on a wild pitch in the Diamondbacks seventh, and Drury added a solo homer in the eighth.HIT PARADEArizona banged out 17 hits and has at least 10 in 14 straight games against Colorado.TRAINERS ROOMRockies: OF Gerardo Parra returned to the lineup after missing a week with a strained hamstring.Diamondbacks: OF A.J. Pollock, who strained his groin Friday, has a chance to return by the end of the season.UP NEXTRockies: Tyler Chatwood (11-9, 3.82 ERA) starts at home against San Diego and Christian Friedrich.Diamondbacks: Archie Bradley (6-9, 5.10) faces Rich Hill and the visiting Dodgers. 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Ballymore Stadium has been reserved for the possible launch of an annual rugby union State of Origin clash between Queensland and NSW.Rugby unions key stakeholders are behind the idea driven by Queensland Rugby Union chief executive Richard Barker and NSW counterpart Andrew Hore.It is designed to give the sport some quality domestic content during Super Rugbys mid-season international break.The Australian Rugby Union, Rugby Union Players Associaton and all five Super League franchises have endorsed it while Wallabies skipper Stephen Moore believes it is a concept worth exploring.There is even the ideal gap at the end of next years June Test window that would make Australias stars available.The match has been tentatively pencilled for Friday, June 30 - a week after Australia meets Italy at Suncorp Stadium in Brisbane.Negotiations are ongoing, but the QRU have taken the additional step of booking Ballymore for that week to ensure the venue is ready to host the match - dubbed State of Union - if it comes off.We think given the unique history of Ballymore that hosting the inaugural game here would addd to the spectacle, Barker told AAP.ddddddddddddWe envisage a festival of rugby that day which would include curtain-raisers that speak to the breadth of our code across all forms of rugby.The response in the rugby community to the concept of State of Union games has been encouraging ... (but) these are early days.I note Stephen Moores supportive comments overnight and previous comments from Bill Pulver and other CEOs and we will continue to discuss this concept with all of rugbys stakeholders.Ballymore may require a minor upgrade to be ready, which would fill the stadium to its 18,000-seat capacity.But its understood the QRU is working feverishly behind the scenes on the future of the precinct, which has long needed a full redevelopment and is under increasing demand from local sporting bodies.A-League side Brisbane Roar trains out of Ballymore while two overseas teams will hold a pre-season warm-up matches there in the lead-up to the Brisbane Global Tens tournament. ' ' '