San Francisco Giant Casey Schmitt (left) congratulates Willy Adames (front right) after hitting a grand slam in the top of the fifth inning at Coors Field in Denver (AP News photo)

By Barbara Mason

The San Francisco Giants (23-36) bats came to life in a huge offensive effort beating the Colorado Rockies (22-38) in game three of their series 19-6 Sunday at Coors Field.

They did lose the series but hopefully they will take this momentum into their next series that gets underway Monday against the Milwaukee Brewers. The Giants were hitting lights out finishing with 25 hits which included a Willy Adames grand slam. All but one player in today’s lineup had at least a hit.

Game recap: San Francisco was looking to get on top of the Rockies in the first inning and that is exactly how this game got underway. The Giants got an excellent start in game three.

Rafael Devers doubled and Jung Hoo Lee who has had an amazing series singled Devers home for an early 1-0 lead. Starter Robbie Ray gave up two singles in the bottom of the inning but got out of it leaving two Colorado runners stranded.

The bottom of the San Francisco batting order continued to produce with Bryce Eldridge and Daniel Susac hitting back to back doubles in the top of the second inning. The Susac double drove Eldridge home extending their lead to 2-0.

The Rockies cut the Giants lead in half in the bottom of the second inning. Kyle Karros doubled reaching third on a wild pitch from Ray. Karros would score on a Fulford foul and the Rockies trailed 2-1

With the score so very close, San Francisco would be looking for some insurance runs as this game went into the third inning. Neither team was able to score in the third inning so both teams went into the fourth inning with the Giants looking for more runs and the Rockies looking to at the very least tie up this game.

The fourth inning was a busy one for San Francisco. Eldridge doubled followed by Susac getting hit by a pitch. There was a pitching change for the Rockies with Gordon being relieved by Brennan Bernardino.

Gordon had allowed six hits and four runs. Casey Schmitt singled driving Eldridge home and San Francisco was slowly pushing out their lead now with a 3-1 tally. They would add one more run before the top of the inning ended taking a 4-1 lead.

The Rockies got uncomfortably close in the bottom of the fourth inning. Karros led off the bottom of the fourth with a single and a Chad Stevens walk. Both Karros and Stevens scored, Stevens scoring on a Ray throwing error. Ray was very obviously fatigued already with 94 pitches but got out of the inning.

Going into the top of the fifth inning the best was yet to come for the Giants. When the dust had settled, the Giants had seven hits in the fifth inning. Jung Hoo Lee and Matt Chapman had back-to-back doubles. Drew Gilbert tripled driving Chapman home, the Chapman double had driven Lee home and the Giants now had a 6-3 lead.

The Giants pushed the score out with a seventh run when Schmitt singled Gilbert home. Colorado was doing everything they could to get out of the inning with two outs. The Giants continued to put runners on base and with the two outs had the bases loaded with Adames at the plate.

Adames came through with a grand slam pushing the San Francisco lead out to 11-3 and the Giants were rolling. The Rockies were able to score two runs in the bottom of the inning but continued to trail 11-5.

Eldridge led off the top of the 6th inning with a solo homer the team already with 16 hits in the game and a 12-5 lead; some absolutely amazing work at the plate for San Francisco. The score remained 12-5 going into the top of the seventh inning.

There were more hits for the Giants in the top of the seventh. Rafael Devers doubled followed by a Luis Arraez single that brought in another run for the Giants 13-5. Lee continued to tear it up with his fourth hit of this game, another RBI and a 14-5 San Francisco lead.

There was no stopping the offensive attack the Giants were waging. The Rockies were able to score one run in the bottom of the inning but not much else with two innings left in the game.

San Francisco continued their hitting ways into the eighth inning with more hits, more runs leading 17-6. The memorable moment in the inning was Jonah Cox making not only his first hit in the majors but also celebrating his first run. What a breath of fresh air for the Giants. Lee had his fifth hit of the game and this would be a game the Giants would not soon forget.

The Giants Jesus Rodriguez hit the teams’ third home run in the top of the ninth inning capping off one crazy game that saw the team finish with 25 hits.The final was 19-6. Lee had 5 hits, and Devers and Eldridge each had four hits. Schmitt finished with three hits and Adames had the Grand Slam bomb.

Game notes: After struggling through the first two games of their series with the Rockies losing both games on Friday and Saturday the Giants salvaged the series with at least one win to avoid a sweep. The Giants needed to wake up those bats in Sunday’s game.

In Saturday’s game they were trailing 8-0 before they even got on the scoreboard in the eighth inning. In the opening game of the series Friday San Francisco let the Rockies back into the game after taking a 6-3 lead into the bottom of the ninth inning.

San Francisco scored two runs in the top of the ninth but had total breakdown on the mound in the bottom of the ninth inning allowed five hits and five runs for a Colorado walk-off win taking a 2-0 series lead.

The Giants will now head out to Milwaukee for a tough assignment, a series with the National League Central leaders the Brewers. This series gets underway Monday night with first pitch scheduled for 4:40 PM. The Giants will feature Landon Roupp on the mound. Roupp has a 5-5 win/loss and a 3.30 ERA. The Brewers will start Shane Drohan (2-1). Right now he has a 2.63 ERA.