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As important as Bochy's message might have been, nothing gets a team going like a big win, and the Giants dropped a whopper of a blowout on the Colorado Rockies, running away with a 16-4 victory at Coors Field. The run total was a season high and nearly matched the 19 total runs the Giants scored while losing seven of the last eight games on a disappointing homestand.
Nobody in orange and black is swinging quite like Posey these days, and for that matter, nobody in baseball is either. Since starting for the National League All-Star team, Posey has a .463 average, five homers and 22 RBIs in 17 second-half games.
He has been a one-man show at times in the second half, but the entire lineup hopped on board against a Rockies pitching staff that issued seven walks and threw five wild pitches. Every starter had a hit, including resort hotels pitcher Ryan Vogelsong, who picked up his first extra-base hit of the season when he led off the four-run Advertisement seventh inning with a double.
The Giants haven't found much of anything offensively in recent weeks, and Bochy felt that he had zeroed in on the problem. He encouraged his team to show greater toughness and compete for the greater good, not individual stats. The message rung especially true for Pagan, who has slumped in recent weeks and dropped into a center field time share with Gregor Blanco.
The Giants hope to keep doing exactly this for the rest of the road trip and beyond. They had managed to hold onto first place while going through a 3-7 homestand, and now are eager to build on Friday night's success.
"The guys broke out of it, and we needed to because we were in a pretty good funk," Bochy said. "We were going to come out of it. Sometimes when you're in a rut like that at home, it's good to get on the road."
Coors Field can be an unforgiving stop for pitchers, but Vogelsong held his own in a matchup with former Giant Jonathan Sanchez, giving up just one hit through the first six innings. After running the bases in the top of the seventh, Vogelsong gave up four runs in the bottom of the frame and exited with one out. By that time, however, he had already resort hotels accomplished his goal for the night.
The Giants never were. They scored two early runs off Sanchez and tacked on four in the seventh, six in the eighth and three in the ninth. Brett Pill hit his first homer since being recalled from Triple-A Fresno, and Ryan Theriot added three runs and two RBIs. Nine Giants scored a run, including Blanco, resort hotels who crossed home twice after entering as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning.
Pablo Sandoval ran in the outfield before the game and said he is happy with the progress he is making. Sandoval (strained left hamstring) is eligible to come off the disabled list Thursday in St. Louis, but Bochy said it's too early to have a definitive timetable for Sandoval's return.
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