Giants blast German Marquez, again, and Rockies are shut out, again

The San Francisco Giants are German Marquez’s kryptonite. How other bash you explicate the Giants’ ongoing domination of the Rockies’ champion right-hander?

Thursday night, San Francisco scored six runs disconnected Marquez successful the 4th inning en way to a 7-0 triumph astatine Oracle Park. Marquez’s last line: 7 runs allowed connected 7 hits with 2 walks and six strikeouts.

In 4 starts against the Giants this season, Marquez is 0-4 with a 13.82 ERA.

Then again, considering the impotence of Colorado’s roadworthy discourtesy this season, adjacent if Marquez had pitched a coagulated game, the Rockies apt would person lost. In the archetypal 3 games of their six-game roadworthy trip, the Rockies person scored a full of 1 tally and collected 14 hits.

It should beryllium noted that the Rockies person been without leadoff hitter Raimel Tapia and 2nd baseman Brendan Rodgers, who’s been their hottest hitter. Still, determination tin beryllium nary overlooking the information that the Rockies person present been unopen retired 15 times this play — each connected the roadworthy — extending an unwanted franchise record.

The past clip a squad was unopen retired 15 oregon much times connected the roadworthy was successful 1978 erstwhile the Atlanta Braves were blanked connected the roadworthy 18 times and the Chicago White Sox 15 times.

Colorado’s roadworthy grounds slipped to 13-43, putting them connected gait to decorativeness 19-62 distant from Coors Field.

Giants right-hander Logan Webb dominated Colorado, pitching six scoreless innings, allowing 3 hits, striking retired 8 and walking two. C.J. Cron had a lonely azygous successful the second. In the sixth, Connor Joe and Ryan McMahon deed back-to-back, two-out singles, but Webb struck retired Trevor Story to extremity the mini-threat.

Marquez, a first-time all-star, entered the crippled pitching similar an ace. Over his past 14 starts, helium had a 2.36 ERA, with 93 strikeouts and conscionable 22 walks, portion holding opponents to a .183 batting average.

He started disconnected Thursday’s crippled comparatively strong, striking retired six implicit his archetypal 3 1/3 innings. But past the Giants went to work: Brandon Crawford and Mike Yastremski singled and Curt Casali ripped an RBI double. Marquez intentionally walked Alex Dickerson to get to Webb, but Webb whistled a two-run azygous to center.

Then came the back-breaker: LaMonte Wade Jr.’s three-run homer to halfway connected Marquez’s 1-0 fastball.

Oddly enough, 1 of the finest games of Marquez’s vocation came connected April 14, 2019, astatine San Francisco, erstwhile helium took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and finished with the archetypal one-hit, complete-game shutout successful franchise history.

Then again, aboriginal that aforesaid season, connected July 15 astatine Coors Field, the Giants torched Marquez for 11 runs connected 11 hits successful 2 2/3 innings en way to a 19-2 win.