Division-leading Giants blast Rockies in 12-3 rout

It was clear, astir immediately, that Rockies starter Chi Chi Gonzalez wasn’t agelong for Tuesday’s crippled against the Giants.

Whether it was the 3 consecutive doubles helium allowed to commencement the game, oregon the information that the Giants tagged him for much runs (5) than Gonzalez recorded outs (4), Tuesday’s crippled was a catastrophe successful the making. And it lone got worse erstwhile Gonzalez was unceremoniously ousted.

The Rockies got blasted, 12-3, down a torrent of San Francisco powerfulness and a flood of ineffective pitching. The loss, Colorado’s 3rd successful a row, dropped the Rockies to 63-76 connected the season.

“When Chi Chi’s good, the shot is down,” said Rockies manager Bud Black. “Today, conscionable couldn’t get the shot wherever helium needed to.”

They’ll effort to salvage the bid finale Wednesday day with Jon Gray returning to the mound.

The pounding had fewer redeemable moments, arsenic San Francisco starter Logan Webb was successful bid passim his 7 innings of work. Outside of C.J. Cron’s 3 hits, astir of the Rockies’ bats were quiescent oregon inconsequential. They finished with 11 hits but were conscionable 3-of-13 with runners successful scoring position. The Giants converted connected 7-of-16 specified chances.

After Gonzalez’s implosion, the Rockies did get 3 1/3 prime innings retired of Ashton Goudeau.

“There’s thing to truly say,” Goudeau said erstwhile asked astir picking up Gonzalez. “I’ve been successful his shoes, too, and sometimes you don’t truly privation anyone to accidental thing to you.”

In the seventh, with the crippled all-but decided, Giants close fielder Mike Yastrzemski turned connected a Julian Fernandez fastball and deposited a two-run homer into the close tract stands.

The Rockies tacked connected 2 much runs a half-inning aboriginal – 1 connected an RBI azygous from Joshua Fuentes and different connected a Rio Ruiz azygous – but the borderline was good beyond reach.

The crippled was already teetering connected the verge of a rout earlier the apical of the fifth. With the bases loaded and Giants centerfielder Steven Duggar up, Rockies reliever Robert Stephenson served up a 2-2 curve shot that landed successful heavy right-center. Duggar’s triple – his 2nd of the crippled – cracked the crippled wide unfastened for the division-leading Giants.

After the inning ended, traveling Giants fans erupted successful a lasting ovation.

It wasn’t until the bottommost of the 4th that the Rockies yet got to Webb. Charlie Blackmon led disconnected with a azygous earlier Cron laced a treble into heavy halfway tract to get Colorado connected the board.

After conscionable 1 1/3 innings, Gonzalez trudged disconnected the mound having yielded 8 hits, including 5 extra-base hits, and handed disconnected a 5-0 shortage to Colorado’s bullpen. Fans, possibly utilized to the abysmal play, didn’t adjacent boo.