Rockies clinch another losing season, while power-hitting Giants win 100th game

The Rockies were hoping to play David to the Giants’ Goliath. The Dodgers were hoping so, too.

Nothing doing.

Home-run blessed San Francisco cranked retired 4 much agelong balls Friday nighttime astatine Coors Field en way to a 7-2 cruiser implicit Colorado.

The Rockies, who were officially eliminated from playoff contention connected Thursday, fell to 71-82, clinching their 3rd consecutive losing play and the 20th losing play successful their 29 years of existence.

The storied Giants, present 100-54, reached the 100-win people for the eighth clip successful their agelong history, but the archetypal clip since 2013.

More vital, they kept their slim pb implicit the Dodgers successful the National League West. The Giants entered Friday 1 crippled up of their rivals with 9 games remaining successful the season. The Dodgers were playing astatine Arizona successful a precocious game.

A spot of bully quality for Colorado was the show of starter Peter Lambert. It was a milestone nighttime for the right-hander, who underwent Tommy John country connected July 21, 2020.

Pitching successful a large league crippled for the archetypal clip since Sept. 20, 2019, Lambert took a affirmative measurement forward. He gave up 2 runs connected 4 hits, walked 1 and struck retired 2 successful 3 2/3 innings. He threw 65 pitches, 38 for strikes. The crippled program was for Lambert to propulsion astir 60 pitches.

Lambert’s night, however, began with a big-league jolt of reality. On the game’s 2nd pitch, Tommy La Stella lined Lambert’s 95 mph fastball into the right-field seats. In the 2nd inning, Brandon Crawford launched a one-out solo blast into the 2nd platform supra close field. Crawford’s 442-foot homer had an exit velocity of 106.1 mph.

San Francisco’s different 2 homers came disconnected of agelong reliever Ashton Goudeau. Brandon Belt led disconnected the sixth with a 424-foot changeable to right. Mike Yastrzemski enactment the crippled distant with a three-run blast successful the seventh.

Friday marked the 17th clip this play the Giants deed astatine slightest 4 location runs and they are present conscionable 1 blast shy of matching their all-time grounds for homers successful a azygous season. That was successful 2001, and yes, that was the twelvemonth Barry Bonds deed 73 homers. This year’s Giants person nary 1 with 30 oregon much homers. Belt leads the squad with 27.

Giants starter Alex Wood stuck astir for conscionable 4 innings earlier getting lifted for a pinch-hitter. Colorado nicked the left-hander for 2 runs successful the first. Raimel Tapia bushed retired an infield squibber for a leadoff azygous and Brendan Rodgers followed with a line-drive azygous to right. Charlie Blackmon’s azygous scored Tapia, and Elias Diaz’s pitching wedge azygous to shallow close scored Rodgers.

But Wood and 3 relievers unopen retired Colorado implicit the adjacent 8 innings. The Rockies loaded the bases successful the eighth but submarine right-hander Tyler Rogers, a Chatfield High School graduate, struck retired pinch-hitter Ryan McMahon looking astatine onslaught 3 to termination the rally.

The Rockies, who yet started to fig retired however to triumph distant from location by going 7-2 connected their latest roadworthy trip, person present fallen into a funk astatine Coors Field. They are 3-9 done their past 12 games successful LoDo.