By Jeremy Harness

AP photo: Colorado Rockies pitcher Jorge De La Rosa pitches to the San Francisco Giants Thursday at Coors Field in Denver

The Giants’ house of horrors, Coors Field, has once again reared its ugly head, and it has dropped a soaring team right back down to earth very quickly.

After taking the series opener in Denver on Tuesday, the Rockies’ bats have unleashed its fury and taken advantage of Giants subpar pitching – and thin Colorado air – to take the next two games, the latest installment coming in the form of an 11-6 defeat Thursday afternoon.

This time, it was Matt Cain, who has struggled with his command in the first pair of outings after recovering from elbow surgery, who was victimized by the Colorado offense.

The right-hander cruised through the first four innings and actually carried a 1-0 lead into the fifth inning, thanks to a wild pitch that scored Denard Span in the fourth. But as the fifth inning came around, that’s where the bottom completely fell out.

Gerardo Parra led off the inning with a towering homer over the right-field wall, and then after a double and a one-out single, his pitching counterpart, Jorge De La Rosa, singled to bring in both runners and give the Rockies the lead.

Cain then surrendered a double to D.J LeMahieu and walked Carlos Gonzalez before manager Bruce Bochy decided to pull the plug on him.

The damage was not done yet, as Nolan Areanado, who had torched the Giants the night before, welcomed reliever Chris Heston with a two-run double before Mark Reynolds followed that right up with a three-run double.

Reynolds was then singled in by Ben Paulsen to cap off a nine-run inning.

However, as most people know, no lead is safe in Coors Field, and two innings later, the Giants made their stand. They used RBI doubles by Ehire Adrianza and matt Duffy as well as run-scoring single by Span to claw their way back in the game.

In the eighth, Brandon Belt went to the opposite field to get one out of the ballpark to cut the Rockies’ lead to four, but they could not any closer than that.