Giants Top Rockies 7-2 For 100th Win, Hold Onto NL West Lead

DENVER (AP) — Mike Yastrzemski deed a three-run homer, 1 of 4 agelong balls by San Francisco, and the NL West-leading Giants bushed the Colorado Rockies 7-2 Friday nighttime to go the season’s archetypal 100-win team.

San Francisco started the nighttime starring the Dodgers by a game, with Los Angeles playing aboriginal astatine Arizona. The Giants person won 16 of 20.

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Kervin Castro (1-0) tossed 2 innings for his archetypal large league victory, and the Giants reached 100 wins for the archetypal clip since going 100-62 successful 2003.

San Francisco blew it unfastened successful the seventh. Yastrzemski followed singles by Brandon Crawford and Evan Longoria with his 25th homer disconnected reliever Ashton Goudeau (1-1). The Giants tacked connected different connected Buster Posey’s RBI single.

Tommy La Stella, Crawford and Brandon Belt had solo location runs to springiness San Francisco a 3-2 pb aft six. La Stella and Crawford had 3 hits each and Belt finished with two.

San Francisco has 234 location runs, 1 less than the nine grounds acceptable successful 2001 erstwhile Barry Bonds deed 73. The Giants pb the NL successful homers and are 2nd successful the majors to Toronto’s 241.

Colorado’s Peter Lambert made his archetypal commencement since Sept. 20, 2019. He underwent Tommy John country successful July 2020 and worked his mode backmost to the rotation.

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He allowed 2 runs connected 4 hits 3 2/3 innings. La Stella deed his 2nd transportation of the crippled into the seats successful near and Crawford blasted his 22nd of the twelvemonth into the 2nd platform successful close successful the 2nd inning.

The Rockies scored their runs successful the archetypal inning disconnected of starter Alex Wood with RBI singles by Charlie Blackmon and Elías Díaz.

TRAINER’S ROOM

Giants: RHP Johnny Cueto (right elbow strain) allowed a tally and 4 hits successful 1 2/3 innings successful Thursday’s rehab commencement astatine Triple-A Sacramento. … LHP Jake McGee (right oblique strain) threw from 90 feet Thursday. He is hopeful to instrumentality for the last play of the regular season.

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Giants RHP Antony DeSclafani (12-7, 3.23) volition look Rockies RHP Jon Gray (8-11, 4.17) connected Saturday successful the 2nd of the three-game series.