Recap: San Francisco vs. Colorado
Sports Network | September 25, 2008
San Francisco, CA (Sports Network) - Clint Barmes finished 4-for-5 with a homer, four runs scored and drove in four as Colorado ripped San Francisco, 15-6, in the middle contest of a three-game set.
Garrett Atkins hit a three-run homer and Matt Holliday also knocked in three runs for the Rockies, who have won two in a row and five of seven.
Livan Hernandez (3-3) worked seven innings for the win, allowing 12 hits and five runs.
Eugenio Velez went 3-for-5 with an RBI and two runs scored for the Giants, who have dropped three of four and surrendered the most runs in a single game this season. John Bowker homered among his three hits, while Nate Schierholtz also picked up three hits and knocked in a run.
Jonathan Sanchez (9-12) was torched in defeat for seven hits and seven runs over 3 1/3 frames.
Already ahead by six, Colorado broke open the contest with a six-run fifth. Kevin Correia walked Ryan Spilborghs and allowed a single to Jeff Baker. Two batters later, Hernandez legged out an infield single and Barmes' single plated Spilborghs.
Troy Tulowitzki followed with an RBI single and Holliday's fielder's choice brought in another run. Atkins finished the blitz by unloading a three-run homer just over the wall in left-center.
Bengie Molina's RBI single in the home fifth brought in a third San Francisco run, but Baker's solo shot in the sixth made it 15-3.
Bowker's leadoff shot in the home sixth knocked the Giants' deficit to 11. In the seventh, Schierholtz picked up a run-scoring double and Velez added an eighth-inning RBI base hit.
Matt Herges closed out the rout by holding the Giants off the scoreboard in the ninth.
The Rockies jumped out in their first at-bat, scoring three runs with two outs from Chris Iannetta's two-run double and a single by Spilborghs.
San Fran countered in the home half. Velez doubled with one out and scored on a Pablo Sandoval single. A second run was prevented, though, as Sandoval was thrown out at home trying to score on a double by Schierholtz.
Barmes launched a two-out solo homer just over the wall in left for a 4-1 Colorado edge in the second, but a Sanchez RBI groundout brought the Giants within two.
Four more runs came home in the Colorado fourth as Barmes and Holliday each stroked two-run doubles.
The Rockies have won 10 of the 17 meetings this season...Barmes' homer was his 10th of the season, tying a career high set in 2005...Atkins has knocked in a run in each of his last five games...Correia was saddled with seven hits and seven runs over two relief innings.
