SF Giants sweep Rockies to take five-game win streak on road

SAN FRANCISCO — Alex Cobb’s precision pitching, Joey Bart’s clutch hitting and Brandon Crawford’s 3rd household run of the time paced the Giants to a 7-1 acquire Wednesday that secured a sequence sweep of the Colorado Rockies.

A sunshine-splashed crowd of 23,341 watched the Giants notch their first sequence sweep this year, by means of their 10th straight acquire towards the Rockies, relationship to final August.

It also prolonged the Giants’ earn streak to five soon after shedding their past 5. Next up is a Thursday flight to St. Louis, wherever they’ll engage in Friday as a result of Sunday prior to a three-game series in Colorado.

Cobb and previously unbeaten Rockies starter Chad Kuhl kept things scoreless by way of three innings just before the Giants broke via offensively. That should not have been far too stunning. The Giants outscored the Rockies 24-8 in excess of the 3-activity set.

It was Bart’s RBI one that highlighted a three-run, go-in advance rally in the fourth inning. His clutch strike came on an -2 pitch, and it arrived an inning soon after he struck out 33rd time in 58 at-bats this season.

Crawford’s third residence run of the year (385 feet) extended the Giants’ guide to 5-, and it chased beforehand unbeaten starter Chad Kuhl.

Just one additional offensive highlight: Joc Pederson theatrically ended an -for-22 skid in the sixth, dribbling a 52-mph single that hugged the first-base line all the way to the bag, which Pederson crossed with his arms elevated in celebration and aid.

Cobb’s 2nd gain arrived the exact same working day his previous Tampa Bay teammate Evan Longoria produced his lengthy-awaited period debut. Longoria, coming off finger surgical treatment on March 28, struck out a few times in his 1st 4 at-bats in advance of achieving on an error in the eighth.

COBB’S Hot Begin

Cobb (2-1) opened with five scoreless innings ahead of receiving pulled in the sixth, just after 85 pitches (61 strikes) with just a few hits and two walks.

He retired 10 consecutive batters soon after yielding a solitary to leadoff batter Connor Joe to open up the video game. Cobb issued a two-out stroll to Blackmon and then struck out C.J. Cron with a 93-mph sinker to retain the shutout bid intact by means of 4 innings.

With runners at the corners, Jose Alvarez relieved Cobb and unsuccessful to cleanly area Charlie Blackmon’s gradual comebacker, allowing for Dom Nunez to score and slice the Giants’ direct to 5-1.

This get started was a far cry from Cobb’s outing 10 times before, when he got pulled only two outs into the first inning below, right after slipping into a 5- hole in an eventual 11-5 decline to Washington. He drew a no-decision in his ensuing begin previous Friday, enabling two runs in 5 innings in an eventual 3-2 defeat to St. Louis, which is where by the 49ers next open up a 3-activity series Friday right after an off-day Thursday.

Kuhl, who entered 3-, threw three scoreless innings right before the Giants rallied in the fourth for a 3- lead.

BART Displays UP ON TIME

The Giants’ most encouraging at-bat of that rally arrived from Bart, who delivered an RBI solitary up the center for a 2- lead. Struggling with an -2 depend and his second strikeout of the day, Bart singled up the middle to travel in Thairo Estrada.

Bart’s next strikeout of the day would come in his upcoming at-bat. He bought hit by a pitch to assist stoke the eighth-inning rally.

Bart came by way of with a defensive gem, much too. He threw out Garrett Hampson attempting a delayed steal to end the Rockies’ seventh-inning odds.

NOTES

— Mike Yastrzemski broke the scoreless stalemate by sliding in safely on Crawford’s grounder to initially with no outs. Yastrzemski led off with a single, took 2nd on an errant pickoff endeavor, then scooted to 3rd on Thairo Estrada’s solitary to middle. Crawford came dwelling on a Brandon Belt flyout for the 3- lead.

— Immediately after his infield one, Pederson drew a bases-loaded walk in the eighth, on a 10-pitch at-bat that started in an -2 hole. Pederson experienced opened -for-3 with to extend his slump to -for-22 (-for-May) considering the fact that an adductor strain stored him out three video games.

— Relievers Alvarez, John Brebbia, Tyler Rogers and Jarlin Garcia did not let a operate in aid of Cobb. Rogers pitched a 1-2-3 eighth inning, then Garcia did the exact in the ninth, placing out Ryan McMahon to finish the video game.

— Just after pummeling their way to 8-5 and 9-2 wins the preceding two video games from Colorado, the Giants struggled to generate operates in Wednesday’s original innings. They stranded two runners in the very first inning and once again in the 3rd, that latter rally spoiled by strikeouts from Longoria and Pederson.

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This story was originally printed May well 11, 2022 7:17 PM.