Rockies’ Ryan McMahon breaks out of slump with “oppo” homer

Third baseman Ryan McMahon was 1 of the fewer Rockies players capable to lick San Francisco right-hander Kevin Gausman Monday day astatine Coors Field.

McMahon deed a solo homer to left-center successful the 2nd and drew a locomotion successful the 4th against Gausman, who pitched 7 beardown innings successful the Giants’ 10-5 victory. McMahon homered for the 3rd clip successful 11 games, and the information that helium took the shot the other mode was a bully sign.

“When I tin deed balls to left-center alternatively of cutting them oregon slicing them, that’s a motion that I’m starting to bash immoderate things better,” McMahon said.

He entered Monday slashing conscionable .125/.182/.300 with 1 treble and 2 location runs implicit his past 12 games. Prior to that slump, helium had slashed .297/.375/.406 implicit an 18-game stretch.

McMahon has deed 5 location runs successful 62 games since June 16 aft hitting 16 homers in
his archetypal 67 games.

Colorado trio. Thomas Jefferson High School postgraduate Kyle Freeland started Monday’s game other the Giants’ Gausman, who graduated from Grandview. But they weren’t the lone Colorado kids connected the mound.

Legacy High merchandise Lucas Gilbreath pitched a scoreless ninth for the Rockies, giving up 1 deed and striking retired one, whittling his ERA to 4.22. Gilbreath has held the absorption scoreless successful 10 consecutive games and 14 of his past 16 games portion posting a 1.03 ERA.

Footnotes. When Freeland gave up a leadoff homer to Darin Ruf it marked the archetypal clip successful franchise past the Rockies allowed a leadoff location tally successful back-to-back games. Plus, they person allowed the leadoff hitter to homer successful 4 consecutive games for the 2nd clip successful franchise history. (Also, June 1-3, 2015). … Charlie Blackmon tripled successful the sixth inning to notch an extra-base deed successful 4 consecutive games. It was his archetypal clip doing that since Aug. 6-9, 2020. The triple was Blackmon’s 52nd of his career, 1 abbreviated of tying Dexter Fowler for the franchise record.