Field Level Media
02 Sep 2025, 04:49 GMT+10
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Rookie Drew Gilbert homered among his career-high four hits, Rafael Devers and Willy Adames also went deep and finished with two hits apiece and the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 8-2 in Denver on Monday.
Kai-Wei Teng (2-3) struck out a career-high eight while scattering nine hits over 5 1/3 innings for San Francisco (69-69), which has won eight of its last nine.
Giants second baseman Casey Schmitt left the game in the fifth inning with a right elbow contusion after being hit with a pitch. He took first base but soon was replaced by Christian Koss.
Tyler Freeman and Brenton Doyle each had three hits and Jordan Beck, Ezequiel Tovar and Yanquiel Fernandez all had two hits for Colorado (39-99), which is on the verge of its third straight 100-loss season.
Rockies starter Chase Dollander (2-12), winless over his last 15 starts, allowed six runs on five hits over five innings, walked three and hit two batters.
Devers gave San Francisco a 1-0 lead in the first with his 29th home run of the season. Colorado tried to answer in the second when Beck led off with a double and went to third on a one-out single by Tovar, but Teng fanned Kyle Karros and Fernandez to end the inning.
The Giants made it 3-0 in the third when Patrick Bailey was hit by a pitch leading off the inning and Gilbert homered to right, his second of the season.
The Giants capitalized on Dollander's control issues in the fifth. Gilbert singled with one out to advance pinch runner Koss to third, and with two outs Dollander walked Devers and Adames to bring home a run.
Dominic Smith hit a check-swing single inside third base to bring home two more runs, but he was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double.
The Rockies got to Teng in the sixth when Tovar's double put runners on second and third with one out. Karros drove in Beck with a groundout off Joel Peguero, and Fernandez doubled to drive in Tovar.
Adames got the runs back with a two-run homer in the seventh, his 26th of the season.
--Field Level Media
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