00:01On the hill today for the Giants will be the 22 year old right hander six foot four inch 215
00:07pound Aiden Birdsong he's a rookie this season 2-0 with a 3-5-5 ERA and the pitch and
00:14there's a shot up the middle Fitzgerald got him and that's how this game gets started Tovar shaking his head
00:21going back into the Rockies dugout and why not this is a brilliant play.
00:25You see him slide into a 360s and very quickly gets up and rifles a seed over to VR and
00:31that folks is robbery just one more look as to how quickly he gets to his balance point and unloads
00:36here's Charlie Blackton and that's a base hit to the left side good strong at bat for Blackman and Charlie
00:44was on it the opposite way and the Rockies have a one out base runner Brenton in game one had
00:49a double in the first inning a couple of strikeouts the fly ball to right the rest of the way.
00:54Here he hits a little floater towards second to second for one on to first not in time to get
01:00Doyle.
01:01Doyle takes off because Sally's throw not going to get him 21st stolen base for Doyle.
01:073-2 McMahon strikes out swinging through another curveball and he got him beautifully executed pitch that time from Birdsong.
01:15For Tanner Gordon he's making his third major league start his last start came with the Albuquerque isotopes and he
01:23pitched very well.
01:24It's Sacramento swing line drive in the right field base hit he got a fastball away and he just kind
01:29of peeled it out over the right side of the infield for the Giants first hit.
01:33Here comes the stream scheme.
01:35Yes had a triple in four at bats in game one.
01:38Rapp to right.
01:41And it turns off the bricks.
01:44Solaire is going to be sent home.
01:46And it is not in time.
01:50Yaz ends up at third and it's 1-0.
01:54Yaz put a laser beam out to right field.
01:56It was sailing over the head of Cave.
01:59And Cave decided, unfamiliar with right field, that he would play the carom and then the ball short hopped the
02:05wall.
02:06It will be the rocky second baseman Brendan Rodgers leading off against Hayden Birdsong.
02:10And there's a called strike three with a curveball.
02:13He got the low strike on that one and that's his second strikeout.
02:17Got him.
02:17He knew it.
02:18He said a lot of off speed and he paid off with the fastball.
02:22A two out walk to Tolia.
02:24Elias Diaz up the plate.
02:26Elias Diaz was the DH for the Rockies in game one.
02:29He struck him out with a changeup.
02:32Good low changeup and he strikes out three in the inning.
02:34He's got four.
02:35And a big game one against the Rockies.
02:38A home run, a single, and a double.
02:40He scored twice.
02:41And Chapman rips one over the head of the third baseman McMahon down the left of your line
02:46and it hits up right at the 3-39 marker beneath the foul pole.
02:50Heading for second, Chapman is in there with a double.
02:53Wisely got the start at second base in game one.
02:56He went 0-3 with a walk.
02:58Second baseman hitting 2-59.
03:00Three home runs, 18 RBIs.
03:03Left center field, a base hit.
03:06Here comes Chapman.
03:08He will score wisely.
03:11He's got a double.
03:122-0.
03:12Boy, inside out, opposite gap.
03:14And you knock in a run with the money hit.
03:16It's a little hanger right over the middle of play.
03:18Didn't try and get greedy with it.
03:20Opposite side.
03:21Think of beauty.
03:22VR did not play in game one.
03:24He's hit first base like we saw him last night.
03:27VR goes the other way.
03:29He's got a base hit.
03:30Stopping at third is Wisely.
03:32Nice opposite field approach from VR.
03:35That's got to feel good.
03:36And a bunt.
03:37The play's going to be made at home.
03:39Not in time or they missed him.
03:42One or the other.
03:43But Black's got the handoff.
03:44They're going to take a peek.
03:45I don't know, Mikey, about this one.
03:47After your view, the call's been overturned.
03:49The runner's out.
03:50Colorado retains this challenge.
03:51And here is Solaire.
03:53And this should be two.
03:54Could be to Rodgers and the lob to first.
03:58All things considered, pretty good job by Tanner Gordon to only give up one.
04:02You don't want to see deja vu again after that first ball game in which the Rockies struck out 17
04:08times in total.
04:09And a fastball for strike three called 97 miles an hour.
04:14And he sends a good hitter back to the dugout shaking his head.
04:18Ryan McMahon swinging third strike to end the first inning.
04:23Reach back 98 elevates strikeout number six.
04:27The Rockies get the tying runs on base with two outs.
04:31And Michael Tolia is the hitter.
04:33Tolia strikes out swinging.
04:35Curveball got him.
04:36And Birdsong reset and he got the strikeout.
04:39So that's seven strikeouts in four innings for Birdsong.
04:42Birdsong with seven strikeouts.
04:44He's allowed three hits.
04:46He walks his third man.
04:48Charlie Blackman with a runner at third.
04:51What Birdsong has done, he's earned this right.
04:53But this is a manager saying, I believe in you.
04:56Changeout struck him out swinging.
04:58And what will surely be his final pitch, he has given the Giants five shutout innings
05:04and allowed only three hits with eight strikeouts.
05:07Casale leads off the fifth with a hit.
05:11Solaire singled and scored in the first inning.
05:14Swing, line drive down the left field line.
05:16Fair ball.
05:17Heading down the line and hits off the angled side wall.
05:20Ricochets to the left fielder.
05:22And Hilliard will throw it back.
05:24But it's a double for Solaire stopping at third.
05:27Casale.
05:28So half the hits for extra bases.
05:30Mike Yastrzemski has one of those swings.
05:33And it's a high drive into deep right field.
05:36Playable, though.
05:37Back is Cave at the edge of the track.
05:39Makes the catch.
05:39Both runners tag up.
05:41Here comes Casale and he scores.
05:43And going to third base, Solaire.
05:45Well done by Yaz.
05:47Something that has been nigh on impossible for the Giants here these last few days.
05:52The infield comes all the way in for the right-handers.
05:55And he hits a high fly ball.
05:58Shallow right field.
06:00Racing in.
06:00Still coming.
06:01Still coming.
06:02And fall.
06:03Base hit.
06:04With the infield in, neither one of the right-side infielders,
06:08neither Rodgers at second or Tolia at first, could get out on that ball.
06:12So a bloop single for Ramos.
06:14And the Giants now lead 4-0.
06:16Solaire swinging a hot bat.
06:17Two more hits tonight.
06:19Uh-oh.
06:20Hanner to left.
06:22Solaire off the bottom of the wall.
06:25He's going to have to hustle.
06:26And he's going to make it.
06:28That's his third hit and his second double.
06:31His second double.
06:32And the only thing that kept that one from going out is he didn't hit it with enough loft.
06:36Dastrzemski has had a triple in.
06:38And this has bounced to second.
06:39Rodgers has it.
06:41And a solid inning for Bird.
06:43Solaire did double.
06:44He's left at second.
06:45We'll move to the eighth.
06:46The Rockies down by four.
06:47Sam is 0 for 1 with a walk.
06:51He grounded out in the third inning.
06:54Strike three called on the outside corner.
06:56Man, Hilliard, it just looked like he was hoping, maybe he'll walk me.
07:00Tovar, he has one of the Rockies' three hits, singled back in the third inning.
07:05Swing and a miss.
07:06He struck it out.
07:0730 strikeouts by Giants pitching so far in 16 and two-thirds innings.
07:12Luckman with a high pop-up, shallow right field.
07:16Dastrzemski comes racing in, slows down.
07:19And that will end the inning.
07:21So two down, and here is Tyler Fitzgerald.
07:24That game, and he blasts one.
07:25Deep left field, and it's on its way.
07:28Goodbye.
07:29Home run, Tyler Fitzgerald.
07:32Five to nothing, Giants.
07:34It's been kind of a long day for Fitzgerald, and you thought, well, he was due to cool off
07:38at some point, and after going one for seven with one single, he blasts a home run to left
07:44field, right over the .354 marker.
07:46Jake Cave has a hit in three tries.
07:49Lifts the fly ball to left, over to his right a bit.
07:52Conforto's got it.
07:53The Giants sweep a doubleheader from the Colorado Rockies.
07:57They take game one, four to one, and they win the nightcap, five to nothing.
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