Giants' offense awakens in 19-6 win over Rockies as five-game skid ends
DENVER - Faced with the possibility of getting swept by yet another NL West opponent - worse still, the Rockies - and the last-place spot that would come with that, the San Francisco Giants got busy swinging the bats Sunday.
San Francisco's damage included a seven-run fifth inning in which the team hit for the cycle, including Drew Gilbert's triple and Willy Adames' grand slam, the Giants' fourth grand slam in two weeks. Jung Hoo Lee had five hits, Bryce Eldridge had four hits, including two doubles and a homer, and Rafael Devers had four hits, three of them doubles, in San Francisco's 19-6 victory.
"I think we all just got a little bit angry about how this series has gone and obviously how the season is going for us," Eldridge said, "so I think if we just continue to play angry and play hungry, good things will happen."
Jonah Cox, called up from Double-A Richmond earlier in the day, recorded his first big-league hit, a double in the ninth. He had 60 friends and family members on hand from his hometown, nearby Westminster who erupted in cheers when he entered the game as a pinch runner in the eighth.
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"I heard them on the pinch run - because I don't think anyone else said a single word," Cox said. "I could hear my entire family going nuts."
"He's an amazing guy, amazing teammate, amazing player," said Eldridge, who played with Cox at two levels in the minors. "Jonah was a lot of my RBIs my first year pro ball in San Jose and Eugene, so I definitely like playing with him. He's also the reason I had a few stolen bases that year, because I'd be on first and he was on second, he'd take third and I'd kind of sneak into second behind him. I know he's going to be a big contributor for us."
Giants 19, Rockies 6
San Francisco
AB
R
H
BI
BB
SO
Avg.
Totals
50
19
25
18
4
9
Schmitt lf
6
1
3
2
0
2
.294
1-Cox pr-cf
1
1
1
0
0
0
1.000
Devers 1b
6
4
4
1
1
1
.253
Arraez 2b
4
2
1
3
1
0
.321
Adames ss
5
1
3
4
1
1
.243
Lee rf
6
1
5
2
0
0
.304
2-Bericoto pr-rf
0
0
0
0
0
0
.200
Chapman 3b
6
1
1
1
0
1
.232
Eldridge dh
6
4
4
1
0
0
.241
Susac c
3
2
1
1
1
1
.293
b-Rodriguez ph-c
1
1
1
2
0
0
.231
Gilbert cf-lf
6
1
1
1
0
3
.237
Colorado
AB
R
H
BI
BB
SO
Avg.
Totals
37
6
10
4
5
10
Castro 1b
5
0
1
0
0
1
.263
Freeman rf-cf
4
1
3
0
1
0
.279
Johnston lf-rf
5
1
2
1
0
0
.310
Goodman dh
4
1
0
0
0
2
.239
Sullivan p
1
0
0
0
0
0
.195
Tovar ss
3
0
1
0
0
1
.221
a-Julien ph-2b
1
0
0
0
1
0
.207
Karros 3b
4
2
2
0
1
2
.215
McCarthy cf
3
0
0
1
0
2
.282
S.Thompson lf
1
0
0
0
0
0
.148
Fulford c
4
0
1
2
0
1
.190
Stevens 2b-ss
2
1
0
0
2
1
.063
San Francisco
110
271
232_19
25
3
Colorado
010
220
100_6
10
3
a-walked for Tovar in the 7th. b-homered for Susac in the 9th.
1-ran for Schmitt in the 8th. 2-ran for Lee in the 8th.
E: Ray 2 (2), Chapman (7), Bernardino (1), Freeman (1), Mejia (1). LOB: San Francisco 11, Colorado 10. 2B: Devers 3 (18), Eldridge 2 (6), Susac (4), Lee (12), Chapman (15), Cox (1), Karros (8), Johnston (15), Freeman (5). 3B: Gilbert (2). HR: Adames (8), off Agnos; Eldridge (2), off K.Thompson; Rodriguez (2), off Sullivan. RBIs: Lee 2 (19), Susac (11), Schmitt 2 (33), Arraez 3 (23), Chapman (19), Gilbert (12), Adames 4 (23), Eldridge (4), Devers (30), Rodriguez 2 (7), Fulford 2 (4), Johnston (24), McCarthy (24). SB: Freeman (5), Castro (4), Johnston (3), Schmitt (5). CS: Castro (4). SF: Arraez 2, McCarthy.
Runners left in scoring position: San Francisco 5 (Chapman 2, Adames, Arraez, Devers); Colorado 5 (Fulford, Tovar 3, Stevens). RISP: San Francisco 10 for 22; Colorado 2 for 14.
Runners moved up: Arraez, Eldridge, Fulford.
San Francisco
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
NP
ERA
Ray
4
5
3
1
2
6
96
4.45
Beck
1
3
2
2
1
0
26
4.50
Kilian, W, 2-3
1
0
0
0
1
2
15
3.81
Peguero
1
1-3
2
1
0
1
1
26
2.38
Brubaker
1
2-3
0
0
0
0
1
17
2.70
Colorado
IP
H
R
ER
BB
SO
NP
ERA
Gordon, L, 0-1
3
6
4
4
1
2
75
6.37
Bernardino
1
1
0
0
1
1
18
3.70
Agnos
1
7
7
7
1
2
35
7.78
K.Thompson
2
4
3
3
0
2
40
6.35
Mejia
2-3
2
3
2
1
1
21
5.67
Sullivan
1
1-3
5
2
2
0
1
27
13.50
Inherited runners-scored: Brubaker 1-0, Bernardino 2-2. IBB: off Agnos (Arraez). HBP: Gordon (Susac). WP: Ray, K.Thompson.
ABS Challenge: Castro (Strike-Confirmed); Devers (Strike-Confirmed); Gordon (Ball-Overturned to Strike); Beck (Ball-Confirmed).
Pitch timer violations: Agnos (pitcher).
Umpires: Home, Emil Jimenez; First, Gabe Morales; Second, Doug Eddings; Third, Mike Muchlinski.
T: 3:38. A: 37,965 (50,144).
The Giants' run total and 25 hits were the team's most since a 23-5 win at Colorado on Sept 1, 2020, when they recorded 27 hits. Alex Dickerson, the last San Francisco Giant to record a five-hit game before Lee's day Sunday, did so in that game.
"A little big refreshing," said manager Tony Vitello, pointing to the job Casey Schmitt did in his first career start in the leadoff spot as the tone-setter. "It was just kind of an explosion."
Every Giants player in Sunday's starting lineup recorded at least one hit and scored at least one run as the team ended a five-game losing streak. The patience-challenged team even walked four times. Jesus Rodriguez provided San Francisco's first pinch-hit homer of the year, a two-run shot in the ninth off catcher Brett Sullivan, who also gave up Cox's double.
"Obviously, with the lineup we have, the start of the season wasn't great, but I think everybody's getting more comfortable, and it's been showing up a little bit more lately," Adames said. "We have so much talent here that I feel like we could score a lot of runs every day.
"I think the guys have been taking a lot of great at-bats and putting ourselves in positions to score more runs. There have been some grand slams and that's great when you do it, but it's been a collective effort of taking better at-bats and trying to pass the baton to the next guy."
Lee is 16 for his past 32 and has lifted his average to .304 in that eight-game span. He recorded 11 hits in the three games at Coors Field.
"I think this is who he is, I really do," Vitello said.
"It feels like he's going to get a hit every at-bat," Adames said of Lee. "‘It feels kind of normal, to be honest with you, which is amazing. It's like (Luis) Arraez."
Robbie Ray started for San Francisco and he didn't have the cleanest outing - his own double error on a comebacker in the fourth led to two unearned runs - but he did a nice job of escaping major difficulty, including striking out Hunter Goodman and Ezequiel Tovar with two men in scoring position in the first. Ray allowed only one earned run, but with a lot of traffic, he made it through just four innings, departing after throwing 96 pitches.
Catcher Daniel Susac was hit in the head by a pitch in the fourth inning, but it was a 77 mph curveball and he stayed in after getting a thorough checkout. Reliever Joel Peguero left in the eighth with what Vitello said was a hamstring injury; Peguero missed the first month of the season with a similar injury.
The Giants are likely to make a move to add at least one other reliever before Monday night's game at Milwaukee. No Giants starter made it out of the fifth at Colorado, leaving the bullpen stretched thin even before Peguero's injury.
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