The same old, same old is getting old. But so it goes for the 2022 Rockies.
German Marquez gave the Rockies his usual workmanlike road start, but after a hot start, the Rockies’ offense faded to black.
The final: Giants 5, Rockies 2 on Tuesday night at San Francisco’s Oracle Park.
“German has been, over the course of the year, fairly consistent,” manager Bud Black told AT&T SportsNet. “There have been some ups and downs, for sure. But we just can’t seem to get him any runs.”
The Rockies, 5-12 vs. San Francisco this season, slid to 24-49 on the road, where they have been outscored 359-218.
Marquez gave up three runs on six hits over six innings. He struck out six and walked only one. For his 13th consecutive road game, Marquez pitched a least six innings. In 10 games this season, the Rockies have provided Marquez with two or fewer runs of support.
“He keeps fighting, he keeps battling,” Black said. “German did his job. Six innings, three runs. … He pitched well enough to give us a chance.”
But the right-hander also served up two home runs and has now surrendered a career-high 30 long balls. Joc Pederson cranked Marquez’s first pitch of the game over the wall, and J.D. Davis led off the fourth with a 434-foot blast to center.
Colorado’s offense, so feeble away from Coors Field, put together an impressive first inning against Giants right-hander Logan Webb, who pitched five hitless innings in Colorado last Wednesday before allowing a one-out single in the sixth to rookie left fielder Sean Bouchard.
Tuesday night, Ryan McMahon led off the game with a single, advanced to second on C.J. Cron’s single and scored on Charlie Blackmon’s opposite-field single to left.
Colorado seemed poised to add on in the second when Bouchard and Ezequiel Tovar had back-to-back singles, but the inning fizzled when McMahon grounded into a double play.
Bouchard singled in the seventh to finish the game 2-for-3. Since being recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque on Aug. 30, Bouchard is hitting .350 (14-for-40).
Webb, on an innings limit, was his usual excellent self. In five innings, he gave up one run on five hits, walked just one, and whiffed seven. Webb ended his night by striking out the last five batters he faced. He lowered his ERA to 2.90.
The Rockies loaded the bases in the ninth against hard-throwing Camilo Doval and scored a run on Alan Trejo’s bases-loaded, pinch-hit single to score Blackmon.
