Bryce Eldridge<\/a> doubled in a run and launched a 458-foot home run to the second deck in right field. Victor Bericoto smacked a pair of doubles down the left-field line. Heliot Ramos, Casey Schmitt, Willy Adames and Jung Hoo Lee got in on the brigade of two-baggers, too.<\/p>\nBryce Eldridge flips his bat after belting a 458-foot, solo homer in the third inning of the Giants\u2019 6-4 win over the Rockies on July 4, 2026 in Denver. AP<\/p>\n
Eldridge, who had been stuck in a 7-for-45 rut since his last homer 12 games ago, broke his own record for the longest home run by a Giants hitter this season.<\/p>\n
That one traveled 453 feet. The ballpark? Coors Field.<\/p>\n
\u201cLast time I came here I was kind of scuffling a little bit at the plate and I kind of snapped out of it here,\u201d Eldridge said. \u201cI feel like that\u2019s starting to happen now, too, this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Giants\u2019 seven doubles were tied for their second-most in a game this season, only two off their output from the 25-hit win last time they visited the cavernous mile-high setting.<\/p>\n
They became the first visiting team in Coors Field\u2019s 31-year history to record more than one game of seven or more doubles, something the Rockies have only done in five seasons.<\/p>\n
San Francisco pounded out 14 hits in total, including three from Luis Arraez on the same day he was named one of the Giants\u2019 two All-Star representatives (along with Logan Webb).<\/p>\n
Still, Colorado brought the tying run to the plate against closer Caleb Kilian in the ninth inning. Pinch-hitter T.J. Rumfield singled home Cole Carrigg to cut the Giants\u2019 lead to 6-4 and brought up Troy Johnston.<\/p>\n
But in a setting where no lead is safe, that was as much drama as there was in three innings against San Francisco\u2019s maligned bullpen, as Kilian got Johnston to chase at strike three for his eighth save.<\/p>\n
What it means<\/p>\n
The Giants caught somewhat of a break when Tomoyuki Sugano was scratched from his scheduled start with back spasms and replaced with Sullivan.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old soft-tossing southpaw had made four previous career starts with an 8.64 ERA. With the slowest average fastball velocity in the majors (87.8 mph), the Giants didn\u2019t see a single pitch above 90 until Sullivan left the game with two outs in the sixth.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s tough because it\u2019s a deceptive look,\u201d manager Tony Vitello said. \u201cI think guys look up at the radar gun and don\u2019t realize the fastball\u2019s got a little jump to it, and then on top of it you maybe get a little greedy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Victor Bericoto belts one of his two doubles in the Giants\u2019 victory over Rockies. Getty Images<\/p>\n
No such issues for the Giants, who racked up all seven of their doubles off Sullivan and gave Ray a 4-0 lead to work with before the Rockies came to bat.<\/p>\n
\u201cAt least looking at prior videos, it looked like teams that got him took good, compact swings. Other guys maybe got a little too aggressive,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cOur guys have been guilty of that this year, but not tonight. They were really, really good in a bunch of situations. I think the compact swings paid off.\u201d<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s hot<\/p>\n
Ray briefly looked out of sorts after tripping and falling while covering first base in the bottom of the first. Somehow, he managed to catch the toss from Rafael Devers and step on the bag to record the second out of the inning before stumbling onto his hands and knees in foul ground.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou know, it didn\u2019t feel great,\u201d Ray said. \u201cI\u2019m not in my 20s anymore. But I\u2019m all right.\u201d<\/p>\n
What followed were the first earned runs allowed by Ray since June 10. He had been the first Giants starter since Matt Cain in 2006 to go at least 22 innings over three starts without an earned run.<\/p>\n
Ray surrendered a single to the next batter and put another man on base on four pitches. Then, he hung a changeup to Cole Carrigg, who roped it around the left-field foul pole.<\/p>\n
Robbie Ray, who allowed three runs in six innings, rebound from a rocky start to pick up his eighth win of the season in the Giants\u2019 win over the Rockies. Ron Chenoy-Imagn Images<\/p>\n
That, however, was all the Rockies mustered against Ray.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not so sure there wasn\u2019t something aggravated a little bit, judging on a couple winces,\u201d Vitello said. \u201cI was trying to be serious out there, but those guys couldn\u2019t stop laughing so I started laughing.<\/p>\n
Again relying on the four pitches besides his signature four-seamer, Ray didn\u2019t yield another basehit until his final frame and finished six strong innings for his fourth straight quality start.<\/p>\n
Who\u2019s not<\/p>\n
It didn\u2019t come back to bite them, but the Giants didn\u2019t win any prizes for strategy in the way they deployed their ABS challenges. Ramos tapped his helmet on the very first pitch of the game, a heater that scraped the inside corner, immediately leaving them with only one left.<\/p>\n
That didn\u2019t deter Bericoto from going for it on the last pitch of his at-bat to end the inning. That one, at least, would have turned a strikeout into a full count with a runner in scoring position.<\/p>\n
But, once again, the Giants\u2019 batter\u2019s instincts were wrong, leaving them at the whim of the home plate umpire for the remainder of the game.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Tyler Mahle (1-8, 5.67) gets the ball in the rubber match against Tanner Gordon (0-2, 6.69). Beware, as part of MLB\u2019s Fourth of July weekend celebration, every game will be carried nationally on NBC\/Peacock with first pitch set for 1 p.m. Pacific on the dot.<\/p>\n
Giants fans will still get to listen to Dave Flemming and Hunter Pence on the call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DENVER \u2014 There were some inauspicious signs that Saturday, like so many this season, might not be the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":937282,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2067],"tags":[7,519,6060,1917,56,2321,2469,6,16517,9],"class_list":["post-937281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-giants","tag-football","tag-giants","tag-mlb","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-giants","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkgiants","tag-nfl","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116867133836551539","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=937281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/937281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/937282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=937281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=937281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=937281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}