The win streak finally came to an end last night at the hands of the visiting Rockies. Colorado defeated the Giants 4-2, limiting their offensive production for much of the game.
Matt Cain had been hot lately, and continued to pitch well last night, but he just did not get the run support he needed to keep the Giants winning streak alive. After being given a 2-0 lead to work with, Cain let the Rockies tie it up in the second inning on a two-run shot by former Giant Yorvit Torrealba. The Rockies were able to add another run off Cain in the fourth inning to take a lead, and then would never look back. Cain ended up allowing three runs on six hits and four walks through six innings of work while getting four strikeouts. Sergio Romo pitched a scoreless seventh inning in which he struck out two batters and allowed just a harmless single. Alex Hinshaw faced four hitters in the eighth inning, but was only able to retire one of them. A hit, two walks, and a groundout later a fourth Rockies run had scored and Billy Sadler took over the game. Sadler pitched an inning and two-thirds, allowing just one single and recording a strikeout, he kept the deficit to two runs, but the offense was unable to make anything happen of Rockies closer Brian Fuentes.
The Giants did a good job getting on the board first again, but then only had the first inning to show for. Randy Winn led off the game with a single (one of three on the day), and then came around to score on Fred Lewis’ triple. Lewis would score later in the inning on Bengie Molina’s sacrifice fly. Emmanuel Burriss picked up two singles, but San Francisco was only able to scatter eight hits throughout the game, and failed to string together any more rallies. The Giants hurt themselves by grounding into three doubleplays that killed any scoring threats.
Rookie Matt Palmer will look to start a new win streak tonight at 7:15 p.m. Filling in for injured Jonathan Sanchez, Palmer won his last outing, but is still unproven at the big league level. Lefty Jorge De La Rosa is scheduled to get the start for Colorado.
