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Slide continues for Rockies

A little too little, a little too late: Troy Tulowitzki follows the flight of his RBI-single in the ninth inning, but the Rockies couldn’t quite catch the Giants in the first game of a scheduled doubleheader Saturday in Denver.

DENVER – Brandon Crawford drove in three runs and the San Francisco Giants stretched their winning streak to eight games with a 10-8 win over the skidding Colorado Rockies in the opener of a day-night doubleheader Saturday at rain-soaked Coors Field.

The game, a makeup of an April 26 rainout, was delayed at the start by 2 hours, 15 minutes by heavy showers. More rain was in the forecast for the second game when the Giants sought their first nine-game winning streak since winning 10 in a row in May 2004.

Chris Heston (4-3) picked up the win despite allowing eight hits, including three homers, and six earned runs over 5 2/3 innings. He was bailed out by clutch hitting – all 10 of the Giants’ runs came with two outs.

Santiago Casilla got the final out for his 12th save in 14 chances. He came in after Sergio Romo gave up a run-scoring single to Nolan Arenado in the ninth. Casilla allowed a single to Carlos Gonzalez and a run-scoring single to Troy Tulowitzki. That brought up Wilin Rosario, who grounded out to third to end it.

The Rockies lost for the 17th time in 21 games.

Fans with tickets to the nightcap were allowed into the ballpark at 6 p.m., but they were asked to stay on the concourse and not go to their seats until the first game ended. Fans at the opener were invited to stick around but to move to open seats in their section if arriving fans took their seats for the second game.

However, the announced crowd of 32,956 in the opener had thinned by game’s end on another cold, wet evening.

Colorado right-hander Jordan Lyles (2-5), who was charged with six earned runs on seven hits in four-plus innings, left in the fifth with a sprained toe on his left foot. The Rockies said he was day-to-day.

Lyles was cruising until the fourth, when he allowed five straight two-out singles and surrendered three runs, including one on his errant pickoff attempt at first. He was injured during the rally that followed a double-play groundball by Angel Pagan, who was originally ruled safe at first. After the safe call was reversed, Crawford and Matt Duffy drove in runs and Crawford scored from third on Lyles’ errant pickoff attempt to first, making it 3-1.

The Giants loaded the bases with nobody out in the fifth and lefty Yohan Flande replaced Lyles. He allowed a two-run single by Hunter Pence and a two-run triple by Crawford that made it 7-1.

Heston, who surrendered a solo homer to Ben Paulsen in the second, gave up a solo home run to Nick Hundley and a two-run shot to Charlie Blackmon in the fifth that pulled Colorado to 7-4.

After the Giants scored three times in the sixth, two on Brandon Belt’s double, Heston once again couldn’t shut down the Rockies. He was replaced by left-hander Javier Lopez after giving up an RBI double to pinch-hitter Rafael Ynoa that made it 10-6.



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