Jake Peavy was awful, again, in a 10-6 Giants loss Wednesday night at Colorado.
Attendees might have been forgiven had they thought they'd walked in on a late batting practice session. Peavy had surrendered two triples, a double, a sac fly and an RBI groundout within his first 10 pitches, leaving the Giants playing catch-up for most of the night.
Before Peavy was mercifully lifted for a pinch hitter after four innings, he had surrendered six runs and 11 hits; with a stunning 10 of those hits going for extra bases -- a Giants record. It was Lions versus Christians, the Roadrunner versus Wyle E. Coyote, Joey Chitwood versus a hot dog. Not a fun night for the faithful.
This wasn't your typical Coors Field slugfest, where fly balls carry into the Christmas trees and jam shots parachute into the immense outfield. Peavy, and later Josh Osich, were hit hard and often; beaten like a snare drum during a Blue Man Group show.
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Let's catalogue the carnage: one homer, three triples and six doubles in four innings (23 hitters). That's bad on a Roadhouse or Attack of the Killer Tomatoes level. Correction; those, uh, gems were watchable. This was one of those outings where you cover your eyes and try to think of your happy place -- which for the hardcore fan was probably at the bottom of a mug at Lefty O'Doul's.
Amazingly, it could have been worse. The only frame in which the Rockies didn't tally against Peavy was the second, and that was due to a base running misadventure.
Only the Giants potent offense made the game interesting. They got Peavy off the hook once and valiantly tried to do it again when Peavy re-dug a rather formidable hole.
To their credit, the Giants did give it a fight despite the absence of Buster Posey, sitting for the second straight game with a foot injury. After Peavy staked Colorado to the 2-0 lead, the Giants evened the score in the third when Denard Span doubled home Angel Pagan (walk) and Trevor Brown (single). It didn't last long.
Nolan Arenado's long ball and three more doubles allowed Colorado to regain the lead at 5-2 in the bottom of the frame. That lead grew by a run one inning later on a triple and a double. San Francisco battled back with three in the fifth as Pagan, Brown and Hnnter Pence all hit safely.
Down 6-5, the Giants turned to Chris Heston, He pitched a quiet fifth but surrendered a triple and two singles in the sixth as Colorado upped it;s lead to 7-5. Brandon Belt's solo homer in the eighth got the Giants back within a run at 7-6, and being down a run is cause for hope at Coors Field. But it all came apart in the bottom of that stanza as Osich got lit.
An error and single set the stage, and Arenado went deep for the second time to make the score 10-6. Osich would go on to load the bases on two walks and Colorado's 18th hit of the night (a rare single) before George Kontos came on to end the threat.
It was a ridiculous night for Arenado, who went 4-for-5 with two homers, two doubles and seven RBIs. He also sold popcorn, took tickets and helped usher an old lady to her seat while cementing his reputation as a Giant killer.
Jake McGee allowed a one-out walk to Pagan but otherwise set San Francisco down quietly in the ninth to finish the tilt.
The Giants got the most out of their seven hits. Belt and Brown each had two hits, and Span drove in a pair. But that paled next to Colorado's night, in which the Rockies set franchise records for triples (4) and extra-base hits (11).
Peavy has provided diminishing returns since his late 2014 acquisition. He gave the team a quick jolt but performed poorly in the postseason, yet was granted $25 million over two seasons to return. Season one of that deal saw Peavy fail to answer the bell for the first half and he returned as a twice-through the order guy. He hasn't even been that good in two 2016 starts (0-1 with an ERA of 10.0).
Wanna bet Clayton Blackburn is waiting by the phone?
It's no secret that we're not Peavy fans. Hey, he's supposed to be a heck of a nice guy when he's not throwing BP. We don't doubt that. But we know lots of nice guys, they shouldn't star for the Giants either.
The setback leaves San Frncisco's record at 6-3, one game ahead of the 5-4 Dodgers. LA was a 3-1 winner over Arizona on Thursday. Colorado is break even at 4-4, 1 1/2 games back.
It's a quick turnaround as the Giants (try to shake off the loss. The series concludes Thursday afternoon with Matt Cain battling Jorge De La Rosa.
Note; Sergio Romo was unavailable due to soreness in his elbow and will return to San Francisco for evaluation. Manager Bruce Bochy suggested the condition was not serious, telling Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News, "Occasionally it flares up on him. He usually needs acoupleof daays and he's fine."
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Nolan Arenado's long ball and three more doubles allowed Colorado to regain the lead at 5-2 in the bottom of the frame. That lead grew by a run one inning later on a triple and a double. San Francisco battled back with three in the fifth as Pagan, Brown and Hnnter Pence all hit safely.
Down 6-5, the Giants turned to Chris Heston, He pitched a quiet fifth but surrendered a triple and two singles in the sixth as Colorado upped it;s lead to 7-5. Brandon Belt's solo homer in the eighth got the Giants back within a run at 7-6, and being down a run is cause for hope at Coors Field. But it all came apart in the bottom of that stanza as Osich got lit.
An error and single set the stage, and Arenado went deep for the second time to make the score 10-6. Osich would go on to load the bases on two walks and Colorado's 18th hit of the night (a rare single) before George Kontos came on to end the threat.
It was a ridiculous night for Arenado, who went 4-for-5 with two homers, two doubles and seven RBIs. He also sold popcorn, took tickets and helped usher an old lady to her seat while cementing his reputation as a Giant killer.
Jake McGee allowed a one-out walk to Pagan but otherwise set San Francisco down quietly in the ninth to finish the tilt.
The Giants got the most out of their seven hits. Belt and Brown each had two hits, and Span drove in a pair. But that paled next to Colorado's night, in which the Rockies set franchise records for triples (4) and extra-base hits (11).
Peavy has provided diminishing returns since his late 2014 acquisition. He gave the team a quick jolt but performed poorly in the postseason, yet was granted $25 million over two seasons to return. Season one of that deal saw Peavy fail to answer the bell for the first half and he returned as a twice-through the order guy. He hasn't even been that good in two 2016 starts (0-1 with an ERA of 10.0).
Wanna bet Clayton Blackburn is waiting by the phone?
It's no secret that we're not Peavy fans. Hey, he's supposed to be a heck of a nice guy when he's not throwing BP. We don't doubt that. But we know lots of nice guys, they shouldn't star for the Giants either.
The setback leaves San Frncisco's record at 6-3, one game ahead of the 5-4 Dodgers. LA was a 3-1 winner over Arizona on Thursday. Colorado is break even at 4-4, 1 1/2 games back.
It's a quick turnaround as the Giants (try to shake off the loss. The series concludes Thursday afternoon with Matt Cain battling Jorge De La Rosa.
Note; Sergio Romo was unavailable due to soreness in his elbow and will return to San Francisco for evaluation. Manager Bruce Bochy suggested the condition was not serious, telling Andrew Baggarly of the San Jose Mercury News, "Occasionally it flares up on him. He usually needs acoupleof daays and he's fine."
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