SF Giants set franchise record, crush Rockies 19-6 to snap losing skid

Joseph Dycus, The Mercury News on May 31, 2026

Published in Baseball

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Willy Adames fouled off the first, fourth and sixth pitches of his seven-pitch at-bat against Zach Agnos in the fifth inning. He patiently watched three more balls land outside the zone, waiting for the pitch he wanted.

When he got the offering he was looking for, a 96-mile-per-hour fastball down the middle of the plate at Colorado’s Coors Field on Sunday afternoon, Adames sent it flying 380 feet through the thin mile high air.

His fifth inning grand slam put an early exclamation mark on a long-awaited Giants victory, an 19-6 win that snapped a five-game losing streak and avoided a sweep at the hands of the lowly Rockies.

The Giants (23-36) put up 25 hits, the most of any game this season. Their nine doubles, three by Rafael Devers, was a franchise record for most in a single game.

“It was a good day for everyone,” Bryce Eldridge said on the NBC Bay Area broadcast.

After Casey Schmitt’s third hit of the day in the eighth inning, rookie outfielder Jonah Cox made his MLB debut as a pinch runner with around 60 friends and family in the stands.

Cox scored a few minutes later, going from first to home after an error by the Rockies on a Rafael Devers single. Cox later moved to center field to finish the game, and laced a double in his first at-bat in the ninth inning.

Giants starter Robbie Ray finished his day after only four innings, throwing 96 pitches, striking out six, allowing five hits, one earned run and walking two.

Jung Hoo Lee helped the Giants offense get going early, driving Rafael Devers in with a single to center off Rockies starter Tanner Gordon. Lee had his first five-hit game as a pro.

In the second inning, Daniels Susac added another run to the advantage by lacing a 96 mph double to right, getting Bryce Eldridge across the plate.

Ray was up to 50 pitches by the end of the second inning, which saw him give up a run on a sacrifice fly to Rafael Devers in foul territory on the fist base side.

Kyle Karros was able to narrowly avoid the tag a split second before Daniel Susac applied a tag.

Rockies starter Gordon lasted only 75 pitches, being pulled facing a 2-1 deficit after he hit Susac in the head with a 78 mph curveball in the fourth inning. Brennen Bernardino, his replacement, gave up a single to Schmitt to make it 3-1.

A few batters later, Luis Arraez drove in Susac on a sacrifice fly to center to make it 4-1.

The Rockies cut the lead to just 4-3 in the bottom of the inning when Willi Castro broke his bat. Ray struggled to field the ball, and then made an errant throw to first, allowing two Rockies to score.

The Giants answered in the top of the fifth, plating three on a Matt Chapman double, a Drew Gilbert triple and a Schmitt single.

Adames’ grand slam made it 11-3 and the rout was on.

The Rockies scored twice in the bottom of the fifth, but Eldridge, who started at DH was 4 of 6, hit his second home run of the season with a towering 453-foot home run over the center field wall.

Eldridge is 12 for 34 over the last 10 games.

“Good place to hit, and feel like I have some momentum going,” Eldridge said.

Lee and Arraez added RBI in the seventh to make it a 14-5 game.

The Rockies put catcher Brett Sullivan in as a pitcher in the eighth. Joel Peguero had to leave the game in the eighth inning after pulling up lame after fielding a ground ball.

The Giants will travel to Milwaukee and beginning the series on Monday. Landen Roupp (5-3, 3.30 ERA) is expected to start against Shane Drohan (2-1, 2.63 ERA).

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