DENVER (AP) Michael Conforto homered and singled in a six-run second inning that sent the San Francisco Giants past the struggling Colorado Rockies 8-6 on Wednesday night.
Blake Sabol and Conforto each finished with three of San Francisco's 13 hits. Jordan Hicks pitched five effective innings and the Giants won their second in a row after a four-game losing streak to secure the series win against Colorado.
After a 5-0 victory Tuesday over the Rockies, it was just the third time this season the Giants scored five or more runs in consecutive games.
āItās very encouraging,ā LaMonte Wade Jr. said. āWeāve been working hard at it, so to see it come to fruition the last two nights has been really good. Weāve got to keep building on that and come out strong tomorrow.ā
Mike Yastrzemski had two hits, including a triple, and Sabol delivered an RBI double. San Francisco withstood a two-run homer by Elias DĆaz off Camilo Doval with two outs in the bottom of the ninth.
Sean Bouchard had three hits for the Rockies, who have lost four straight and nine of 10. They own the worst record in the majors at 8-28 and remain the only club without a series victory or successive wins this season.
āWe hung in there,ā manager Bud Black said. āWe kept getting some guys on base, but the double play tonight sort of killed us three different times. That happens. Thatās baseball.ā
Charlie Blackmon added two hits and two RBIs, pushing his career RBI total to 760 and tying Nolan Arenado for fourth in Rockies history. DĆaz had three RBIs.
Hicks (3-1) allowed three runs on seven hits and struck out five.
Peter Lambert (2-2) went three innings and permitted seven runs on nine hits.
The Giants matched their biggest inning of the season in the second, which began with Confortoās leadoff homer on the first pitch he saw from Lambert.
Jung Hoo Lee helped keep the outburst going with an RBI double. Wade had a two-run single and Heliot Ramos, recalled from the minors earlier in the day, added an RBI single. Yastrzemski scored from third on Nick Ahmedās sacrifice, beating the throw home from Lambert with a headfirst slide.
Brenton Doyle tripled and scored on a wild pitch in the bottom of the second, but the Giants got another run in the third on Sabolās RBI double.
āThey hit some pretty good pitches. But overall, kept the ball in the ballpark here,ā Hicks said. āDoyle put some good wood on it but besides that, we got an early lead and just tried to keep them at bay.ā
TRAINERāS ROOM
Giants: DH Jorge Soler was placed on the 10-day injured list with a right shoulder strain, retroactive to Sunday. Ramos was recalled from Triple-A to fill Soler's roster spot.
Rockies: 1B/OF Kris Bryant, sidelined the last three weeks by a lower back strain, has resumed baseball activities in the past couple of days. He has been taking swings in the batting cage and was on the field before the game taking grounders. ... OF Nolan Jones, who went on the 10-day IL effective April 29 with a lower back injury, is expected to resume baseball activities Thursday or Friday. Both are likely to have a minor league rehab assignment before returning to the Rockies.
UP NEXT
Giants RHP Keaton Winn (3-4, 4.41 ERA) is slated to pitch Thursdayās series finale against RHP Cal Quantrill (1-3, 4.31).
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