SF Giants set franchise record, crush Rockies 19-6 to snap losing skid

Willy Adames fouled off the first, fourth, and sixth pitches of his at-bat against Colorado Rockies reliever Zach Agnos in the fifth inning, waiting for the pitch he wanted.

When he got the offering he was looking for, a 96 mph fastball down the middle of the plate at Coors Field on Sunday afternoon, Adames sent it flying 380 feet through the thin mile-high air.

His fifth-inning grand slam put an early exclamation mark on a long-awaited Giants victory, a 19-6 win that snapped a five-game losing streak and avoided a sweep at the hands of the last-place Rockies.

The Giants (23-36) had 25 hits, the most of any game this season. Their nine doubles, three by Rafael Devers, were a franchise record for most in a single game.

Manager Tony Vitello said postgame that the Giants’ veterans, who have been the target of fan scorn amid struggles at the plate, “contributed in a major way.”

He said the Giants believe, based on underlying metrics, that players have been batting well despite the lack of results as they’d lost nine of their last 11 games coming into Sunday.

“Today was just kind of an explosion, and it all came together," Vitello, San Francisco’s first-year manager, told reporters.

After Casey Schmitt's third hit of the day in the eighth inning, rookie outfielder Jonah Cox made his MLB debut as a pinch runner with around 60 friends and family in the stands.

Cox scored a few minutes later, going from first to home after an error by the Rockies on a Devers single. Cox later moved to center field to finish the game and laced a double in his first major-league at-bat in the ninth inning.

Giants starter Robbie Ray finished his day after only four innings, throwing 96 pitches, striking out six, allowing five hits, one earned run, and walking two.

Jung Hoo Lee helped the Giants’ offense get going early, driving Devers in with a single to center off Rockies starter Tanner Gordon. Lee had his first five-hit game in Major League Baseball.

In the second inning, Daniel Susac added another run to the advantage by lacing a 96 mph double to right, getting Bryce Eldridge across the plate.

Ray was up to 50 pitches by the end of the second inning, which saw him give up a run on a sacrifice fly that Devers caught in foul territory on the first base side.

Kyle Karros touched home a split-second before Susac applied a tag.

Gordon lasted only 75 pitches, being pulled facing a 2-1 deficit after he hit Susac in the head with a 78 mph curveball in the fourth inning. Brennen Bernardino, his replacement, gave up a single to Schmitt to make it 3-1.

A few batters later, Luis Arráez drove in Susac on a sacrifice fly to center to make it 4-1.

The Rockies cut the lead to just 4-3 in the bottom of the inning when Ray struggled to field a broken-bat grounder by Willi Castro, and then made an errant throw to first, allowing two Rockies to score.

The Giants answered in the top of the fifth, plating three on a Matt Chapman double, a Drew Gilbert triple and a Schmitt single.

Adames' grand slam made it 11-3, and the rout was on.

The Rockies scored twice in the bottom of the fifth, but Eldridge, who started at DH and was 4 of 6, hit his second home run of the season with a towering 453-foot shot over the center field wall.

"Seeing Jonah and Bryce doing what they did was super exciting,” Vitello said.

Eldridge is 12 for 34 over the last 10 games.

“Good place to hit,” Eldridge said of Coors Field. “I feel like I have some momentum going.”

Lee and Arraez added RBI in the seventh to make it a 14-5 game.

The Rockies put catcher Brett Sullivan in as a pitcher in the eighth inning. Giants reliever Joel Peguero had to leave the game in the bottom half of the eighth after pulling up lame when fielding a ground ball. Vitello said postgame that Peguero “knew right away” that he’d pulled his left hamstring, aggravating an injury that kept him out to start the season.

The Giants will travel to Milwaukee and begin a series against the Brewers on Monday. Landen Roupp (5-3, 3.30 ERA) is expected to start against Shane Drohan (2-1, 2.63 ERA).

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This story was originally published May 31, 2026 at 4:28 PM.