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GIANTS        89-50                       15 hits for the second straight game.

LA                  88-51      1    GB      Inadvertently helping San Diego, too.

San Diego     73-65   15.5  GB      Back in a tie with Reds for WC.

Yesterday

Giants bombarded Colorado again, 12-3.

LA defeated St Louis, 7-2.

Today

Giants finish up at Colorado; 1:15 PM local time, 3:15 EDT. Anthony DeSclafani against Jon Gray, who is 1-1 against the Giants this year. His win came at Coors Field back on May 5.

LA continues at St Louis. It's a four-game series with a game on Thursday.

Last Night's Game

Logan Webb, like Kevin Gausman the day before, was sailing along with a terrific start when the altitude of Coors Field evidently got to him. Through six Webb had a two-hitter and a 11-1 lead. He ran out of gas and gave up four hits and two runs in the seventh, which raised his ERA a tiny bit and lowered his Game Score. But it hardly mattered. Swinging the bats with abandon for the third consecutive game, the Giants had made short work of Rockies starter Chi Chi Gonzalez by the second inning with a 5-0 cushion, and it just got more lopsided as it went on. Steven Duggar was a one-man highlight reel, and right now it's impossible to imagine him being sent down again. He makes things happen. His triple on Sunday was the loudest hit in the Giants' victory over LA, and yesterday he had three extra-base hits including two more triples. His second triple, a bases-loaded rocket to the gap in right-center, was the loudest hit of this game, too-- unless it was Mike Yastrzemski's majestic 433-foot homer in the seventh, his team-leading 22nd. Also like Gausman the day before, Webb had some fun at the plate: he drove in Duggar after the latter's first triple in the second, and came in to score on Tommy LaStella's RBI single. On a 15-hit day, Evan Longoria had the most interesting batting line: three runs scored and one RBI without benefit of a hit. Every Giants starter on the day scored at least one run. 

22-year-old rookie fireballer Kervin Castro made his major-league debut in relief of Webb, pitching two scoreless innings. He allowed two hits and got his first career strikeout.