Rockies walk, then bop

COL 7  SF 5 (10)

Aaron Sanchez walked two batters with two out in the 1st and both scored on a double. The Giants got a run back in the bottom half, tied the game in the 4th, and took a 3-2 lead in the 5th. Jose Alvarez, in relief of Sanchez, allowed the tying run in the 6th. Camilo Doval and Tyler Rogers each delivered a scoreless frame but Jake McGee gave up the go-ahead homer in the 9th to Garrett Hampson. Brandon Crawford then rescued the Giants in the bottom of the 9th with a splash hit off closer Daniel Bard. In the 10th Gregory Santos unfortunately gave up two homers and the 7-4 deficit was too much to overcome. An RBI hit by Buster Posey made it 7-5 but the Giants couldn’t get any more and the Rockies had their first road win of 2021.

Sanchez was not sharp, walking five in his 4-2/3, and Alvarez walked C.J. Cron to start the 5th and he wound up scoring. In the 4th Mauricio Dubon ran through a stop sign at third base, trying to score with two outs, and bumped into Ron Wotus on his way to the plate. He was out by a mile, and it seemed he never saw Wotus or the stop sign. It was a weird play, and fit perfectly with the weird night. The Giants kept fighting back but could not get the job done. Bullpen woes continue. Santos has major-league stuff, but he has to learn that leaving any pitch in the heart of the zone against good hitters is not going to work!

The Giants worked a trade with the Yankees, sending lefty reliever Wandy Peralta (and a PTBNL) for lefty-hitting outfielder Mike Tauchman. I suspect they are worried about losing Mike Yastrzemski for an extended period. I thought they liked Peralta, but his performance has, like many of the Giants relievers, been inconsistent.

Alex Wood goes tonight, 6:45 Pacific.

Go Giants!

–M.C.