The San Francisco Giants faced the the Colorado Rockies yesterday at AT&T Park with the Giants winning 5 to 2. It was quite a game that followers with Giants tickets will be talking about for days.
Giants pitcher Jeremy Affeldt (4.50 ERA) got the win, while Matt Belisle (2.86 ERA) took the loss for the Rockies. Madison Bumgarner went 6 innings for the Giants, allowed 5 hits, no home runs and one earned run with 3 walks and 2 strikeouts. Also pitching for the Giants was Ramon Ramirez (3.49). The Rockies’s starter Esmil Rogers went 6 innings, allowed 4 hits, no home runs and 2 earned runs with 2 walks and 3 strikeouts. Matt Reynolds (0.00), Joe Beimel (2.63), and Franklin Morales (6.75) also pitched for the Rockies. With the win, Affeldt’s record goes to 4-3, while Belisle falls to 6-5. Brian Wilson earned the save for the Giants, bringing his saves up to 37.
In addition to the 5 runs, the Giants managed 7 hits and committed no errors. It wasn’t a huge day for anyone at the plate for the Giants, as nobody managed more than 2 hits. The Rockies didn’t have anyone with a big night with not one batter getting more than 2 hits. The Rockies managed 2 runs, 6 hits and 2 errors.
Umpiring duties were performed by Jim Joyce, Jerry Layne, Mike Winters and Hunter Wendelstedt. There were 31,099 Giants ticket holders in attendance at AT&T Park.