Both the San Francisco Giants and Colorado Rockies didn’t waste anytime getting down to business after Rockies pitcher Kyle Freeman (21) screamed at the Giants Rafael Devers for celebrating his home run emptying both dugouts and bullpens in the top of the first inning on Tue Sep 2, 2025 at Coors Field in Denver (AP News photo)

By Barbara Mason

The San Francisco Giants (70-69) won the second game of their series with the Colorado Rockies (39-100) 7-4. They had four home runs in the game keeping their streak alive.

Rafael Devers, Casey Schmitt, Wilmer Flores and Patrick Bailey all had a piece of the action. The Giants had 13 hits in the game denying the Rockies every time they threatened. San Francisco will now be looking for a sweep in Wednesday’s game.

Game recap: Much as Monday last night, the Giants got a jump on Tuesday night in the first inning of this game taking a 2-0 lead. Starting pitcher Kyle Freeland got an awful start giving up a single to Heliot Ramos followed by a home run to Rafael Devers for the early lead. Freeland was relieved by Antonio Senzatela after Freeland was ejected. Senzatela gave up a single but got Colorado out of the opening inning.

It was for sure a wild start to this game in the first inning. Following the Devers home run, Colorado pitcher Freeland was not at all pleased with Devers celebration screaming at him as he rounded first base.

A number of players charged toward the infield and that is when it appeared that Matt Chapman made contact with the Colorado pitcher. Willie Adames was in the middle of the fracas as well.

It was just one of those bench-clearing events we have seen before. No punches were thrown and the umpires quickly restored order. The Giants shuffled their defensive infield and the game went on.

The Rockies cut the Giants lead in half in the third inning 2-1. Hunter Goodman singled Tyler Freeman home and Colorado was fighting back and trying to rally.

San Francisco took a nice lead in the fifth inning scoring three runs and taking a 5-1 lead. More home runs for the Giants who kept their streak alive. Casey Schmitt hit the first home run to left center, a solo shot extending their lead to 3-1. Wilmer Flores came to the plate and hit a two-run homer with Dominic Smith on base giving San Francisco a 5-1 lead.

In the bottom of the fifth inning the Rockies Hunter Goodman singled Ryan Ritter home. The inning came to an end with the one run for Colorado still trailing 5-2. The surging Giants were not making anything easy for the Rockies.

Logan Webb was finished for the evening after pitching for five innings. Webb was relieved by Jose Butto.

Butto very nearly got out of the seventh inning. With two outs he had walked Tyler Freeman giving up a home run to slugger Hunter Goodman, who was having a terrific game, cutting San Francisco’s lead to a single run 5-4. Butto got the third out but the Giants needed some insurance runs going into the top of the eighth inning.

The Giants wasted no time bulking their lead back up in the eighth with not one but two insurance runs extending their lead back out to 7-4. This time it was Patrick Bailey hitting San Francisco’s fourth home run of the game with Jung Hoo Lee on second base; a shot to right field and the Giants had a three-run lead going into the top of the ninth inning.

Giants pitcher Ryan Walker took the mound to close out this game. The Rockies were down to their final three outs. Pinch hitter Jordan Beck lined out, Ryan Ritter flied out, Tyler Freeman struck out and that was the ball game 7-4 in favor of the Giants.

The Rockies had unfortunately lost their 100th game of the season. On the opposite end of the spectrum San Francisco had won their ninth game of their last ten and have reached their 70th win of the season.

Game notes: The Giants got a great start in their series with the Rockies winning game one Monday night 8-2 and Tuesday night 7-4. The Giants knocked three home runs out of Coors Field: the first in the first inning off the bat of Rafael Devers, the second in the third inning from Drew Gilbert who had a great game with 4 hits and the third one in the seventh inning from Willie Adames on Monday night.

The Giants now have a 15-game home run win streak the longest home run streak in the majors this season. San Francisco got a great outing from pitcher Kai-Wei Teng Monday night.

Giants starter Logan Webb pitched five innings, seven hits, two runs, two walks and seven strike outs Tuesday. The Giants took the second game from the Rockies to assure another series win.

The Giants Wednesday will be in search of another sweep at the expense of the Colorado Rockies after winning the first two games of the series. Robbie Ray will take the mound for the Giants with a 10-6 win/loss record and a 3.18 ERA. The Rockies will try to salvage the third game of the series starting German Marquez. He has a 3-12 win/loss record and a 6.14 ERA. First pitch for this game is scheduled for 5:40 PM.