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Five Takeaways from Rockies' Win Over Giants
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The comeback kids on the Colorado Rockies pulled off some ninth-inning magic and held on to beat the San Francisco Giants 4-3 at Oracle Park on Friday night.
Here are five takeaways from Friday night's game at Oracle Park.
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Ninth-inning magic and some sketchy umpiring
With the Rockies down 2-1 entering the ninth inning, things looked pretty bleak. Mickey Moniak singled off Giants reliever Caleb Kilian . Pinch-hitter Troy Johnston then walked. Jake McCarthy followed and put down one beautiful bunt down the third-base line.
That loaded the bases, again, with nobody out.
Kyle Karros cracked a broken-bat single past the drawn-in infield, bringing Moniak and Johnston home for a 3-2 Colorado lead.
Erik Miller replaced Kilian, but Cole Carrigg's sacrifice fly to left field brought home McCarthy. Entering the bottom of the ninth inning, the Rockies went up 4-2.
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Jordan Romano came on in relief for Colorado, and he showed some wildness in his outing.
Then, there were some umpiring issues as Carrigg did not catch a ball hit to center field. He trapped it, but the second-base umpire didn't make a call. After review, the umpires ruled that there was no catch and the bases were loaded with one out.
Even Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer and Giants manager Tony Vitello came out to talk with the umpires. Rafael Devers ' sacrifice fly made it closer at 4-3, but now with two outs. Willy Adames was the last chance for San Francisco . Romano did not make things easy on himself as he walked Adames to load the bases again.
Schaeffer came out and pulled Romano, bringing in Juan Mejia to take over. With one pitch, Mejia got a groundout and that was it.
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Too many runners left on base
One might think it's pretty easy to get one run home with the bases loaded and no one out.
The Rockies, though, showed that it might take some rocket science to get it done.
Colorado had a bases-loaded situation in the top of the sixth inning. The Rockies forced Giants starter Robbie Ray , who walked the bases loaded, out of the game. Tony Vitello turned to Dylan Smith out of the bullpen.
All Smith did is get San Francisco out of the inning.
Tanner Gordon escapes jam
With the Giants already holding a one-run lead on Devers' solo home run in the bottom of the second inning, they had a chance to blow the game wide open in the bottom of the third.
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Rockies starter Tanner Gordon, though, loaded the bases full of San Francisco players.
Adames stepped into the batter's box with a chance to put some distance between the Giants and Rockies.
Gordon, though, in a full-count, bases-loaded, two-out situation, got Adames to fly out to right-center field.
That kept Colorado in the game at that point.
Jake McCarthy comes through
McCarthy tied things up in Oracle Park with a run-scoring double in the top of the fifth inning.
The bigger deal is that it was a 2-0 count where Giants starter Robbie Ray threw one pretty much over the heart of the plate. And, McCarthy did not miss it.
After Ray got the first two outs in the fifth, Ezequiel Tovar doubled to Giants left fielder Heliot Ramos . McCarthy's 18th double to San Francisco right fielder Jung Hoo Lee this season brought home Tovar.
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Cole Carrigg shows off throwing skills
Whether at the plate for in center field, Carrigg just keeps on impressing anyone who has followed him this season. He played his 29th career MLB game on Friday night.
Carrigg had another chance to show off his cannon of a right arm on Friday night. Luis Arraez opened the home half of the fifth with a single. Casey Schmitt then followed with a deep fly ball to center field.
When Arraez saw Carrigg deep in center field, he made a business decision to try and steal second base. Yeah, well, Carrigg simply fired the ball to Rockies second baseman Willi Castro . As Arraez was sliding into second base, Castro had the ball in his glove, waiting for Arraez to slide into second base.
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San Francisco challenged the out call on the field. After video review, the call on the field stood.
A simply marvelous play by Carrigg.
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