Rockies give up 19 runs, 25 hits in pummeling by Giants

DENVER — Rockies Report, Game 60:

ROCKIES BOTTOM LINE: Only four times at Coors Field have teams had more base hits than the San Francisco Giants did on Sunday afternoon.

In the kind of thumping that resembled the grim days of the 2025 season, the Giants racked up 19 hits and 25 runs at the expense of the Rockies, who cycled through six pitchers, just one of whom was able to escape without allowing a run in what would be a 19-6 throttling in front of 37,965 onlookers on Sunday afternoon.

Reliever Zach Agnos was colobbered in particularly harsh fashion, giving up seven runs — four on Willy Adames’ grand slam — as the Giants turned what had been a competitive 4-3 game to that point into a howler.

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San Francisco racked up 13 extra-base hits at the Rockies’ expense — including nine doubles, which matched a record for the most ever amassed in a single game at Coors Field.

It got so out of hand that for the fourth time in the last 13 days, Rockie manager Warren Schaeffer sent Brett Sullivan onto the mound to mop up proceedings, inserting him with two outs in the eighth inning. Unlike Sullivan’s previous three appearances, he got tagged, as the Giants added five hits — including a Jesús Rodriguez home run — at his expense.

To top it off, the Rockies committed three errors — which the struggling Giants matched with three of their own in a game that was inelegant all the way around.

The defeat prevented the Rockies from recording their first sweep since April 24-26. It also prevented the Rockies from moving out of last place in the National League West. San Francisco remains a game and a half ahead of the Rox in the race to stay out of the division and league basement.

Colorado fell to 22-38, ending May on a 59-win pace.

ROCKIES STARTER’S REPORT

In an inversion of Saturday’s game, this time it was San Francisco’s lineup that ground down the opposing starter, driving up Tanner Gordon’s pitch count immediately from the outset. Gordon got by allowing only a single first-inning run on Jung Hoo Lee’s RBI single, but he required 31 pitches to get through six batters.

He lasted just two batters into the fourth inning before being pulled after plunking Giants catcher Daniel Susac. Gordon took the loss, but his performance was far from the only culpable effort for a pitching staff that was battered; only Brennan Bernardino emerged from Sunday’s work without allowing multiple earned runs.

BITS AND PIECES

IT WAS DECIDED FOR THE ROCKIES WHEN: Adames turned the Giants’ already-productive fifth inning into a seven-inning explosion that turned the onslaught into an avalanche.

NUMBER TO NOTE: Minus-40 — The Rockies’ run differential over their last 12 games, which has included defeats of 10-0, 9-1 and 15-6.

WHAT’S NEXT: Kyle Freeland will attempt to snap out of his recent funk as the Rockies begin a quick three-day road trip to Orange County to take on the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. José Soriano starts for the Angels. First pitch is slated for 7:38 p.m. MDT.

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