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GIANTS   101-54                SF team record is 103 wins.

LA               99-56    2 GB   Every loss is huge now.

Yesterday

Giants defeated Colorado, 7-2, for the second straight night.

LA lost at Arizona by the same 7-2 score.

Friday

Giants defeated Colorado, 7-2.

LA defeated Arizona, 4-2.

Today

Giants finish up at Colorado, their last road game for a while, maybe a long while. Kevin Gausman goes for number 15, and this would be a good time for him to regain his early-season form. Righthander Antonio Senzatela opposes.  It's a daytime start: 12:15 PDT, 1:15 local.  

LA is at Arizona, with Julio Urias out to secure their 100th win.

The Weekend So Far

Giants used four innings from their starters, Alex Wood and Anthony DeSclafani, lots and lots of home run power, and some stout relief pitching to beat the Rockies by identical 7-2 scores.  Friday night Tommy LaStella again opened the game with a homer, and Brandon Crawford, 3-for-3 with a walk on the night, belted his career-high 22nd an inning later. Wood, back from the COVID list, had a rough first inning but pitched better afterward and was lifted after 61 pitches. Holding a tenuous 3-2 lead in the seventh, the Giants saw Mike Yastrzemski step up big-time with a mighty three-run blast, his 25th, and that made all the difference. "This might be the best game I've ever been to!" exulted a beloved family member who was in the stands with his friends on a timely visit to Denver. Meanwhile, Kervin Castro, Tony Watson, and Camilo Doval held the Rockies to two hits over three innings, escape artist Tyler Rogers got out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth, and the final tally showed the Giants' five pitchers allowed not a single walk.

It was the Brandon Belt Show yesterday. The Giants' self-proclaimed captain is finally, finally having that big breakthrough season everyone's been waiting for. With two mighty home runs he drove in the first four runs; added to his solo shot from Friday those two give him 29 for the year, and he may yet become the first Giant to clear 30 homers in a season since Barry Bonds in 2004. Shoot, the way things are going it could very well happen today. Fine pitching from Jose Alvarez, Zack Littell, and Jarlin Garcia, plus Watson and Rogers, obscured another substandard start from Anthony DeSclafani, who gave up five hits, two runs, and the Giants' only walk in four innings. Lately it's been all about the San Francisco bullpen; while Kapler is understandably wary of Coors Field, he also seems wary of all his starters except perhaps Brandon Webb. No Giant starter has gone deep into a game this past week. Coors Field or not, today would be a good day to reverse that trend.