Giants slaughter Rockies

SF 19  COL 2
The Giants went crazy today in Denver, having a Coors Field dream day after two-plus seasons of nightmares. They went 1-8 last year and 1-9 in 2017. This season they are 2-1 after three games! With 21 hits and 19 runs there are a lot of hitters to talk about but I want to mention that Jeff Samardzija pitched another good game. Here's his line in July: 21-2/3 IP, 13 H, 4 R, 3 BB, 17 K. The Giants are 3-0 in those games and 8-2 in July.

The outfield, composed of players not on the Opening Day roster (Alex Dickerson, debut 6/21; Mike Yastrzemski, debut 5/25; Kevin Pillar, debut 4/2), combined to go 9-for-16 with eight runs scored and six driven in.

Brandon Crawford had a career day with five hits (two homers) and eight runs batted in. Willie Mays and Orlando Cepeda are the only other SF Giants with eight RBI in a game. Buster Posey looked good with two hits and three runs scored and Brandon Belt had two hits, a walk, and two runs scored.

Over the last eleven games the Giants have scored 94 runs, the most ever by a San Francisco club in any eleven-game stretch. They were historically bad at hitting and scoring earlier in the season, it feels good to see them be historically awesome!

D-Rod is supposed to get the start in a couple of hours to play the scheduled game (this was a makeup game) but the weather looks dicey. We'll see.

GO GIANTS!

--M.C.

p.s. Both Ray Black and Sam Coonrod pitched in relief. Evan Longoria goes on the IL with plantar fasciitis.