Giants top Rockies to complete 3-game series sweep

Thairo Estrada, Mitch Haniger and Joc Pederson hit dwelling runs, Keaton Winn recorded his first big-league win and the San Francisco Giants completed off a much-needed sweep of the visiting Colorado Rockies with a 6-3 victory on Sunday night time.

Recording their seventh and eighth multiple-run innings of the three-game sequence, the Giants (73-70) moved inside 1 1/2 video games of the ultimate Nationwide League wild-card spot.

A two-run triple by Hunter Goodman and a sacrifice fly by Sean Bouchard gave the Rockies (51-91) a 3-0 lead within the second inning earlier than Winn (1-2) and three relievers mixed for seven innings of three-hit, shutout ball the remainder of the best way.

In the meantime, the Giants wanted simply two innings to maneuver forward for good, starting with a two-run second that featured a run-scoring groundout by Brandon Crawford and an RBI single by Luis Matos.

San Francisco then introduced out the heavy lumber towards Rockies starter Peter Lambert (3-7) within the third, with Estrada main off together with his twelfth homer of the season and, 4 batters later, Haniger launching his sixth, a two-run shot that put the hosts up for good at 5-3.

Pederson’s homer, a solo shot that was his thirteenth, got here within the fifth.

Winn bounced again from his early points to retire 12 of the 14 males he confronted within the third by way of sixth innings. He wound up charged with three runs on 5 hits in six innings, hanging out a season-best 9 with out permitting a stroll.

The rookie’s earlier excessive for strikeouts had been 4 in a five-inning reduction effort towards the San Diego Padres in June.

Camilo Doval, who labored a one-hit ninth, was credited together with his thirty seventh save.

Haniger and LaMonte Wade Jr. every had two hits and scored twice for the Giants, whereas Estrada and Pederson additionally had two-hit video games. San Francisco outhit the friends 11-6.

Elehuris Montero collected a double and two singles for the Rockies, who accomplished a 1-5 journey to Arizona and San Francisco.

Lambert allowed all six Giants runs in 5 innings. He served up eight hits and two walks, hanging out two.

—Discipline Degree Media