Clint Barmes and the Colorado Rockies had no problems taking game two of a three game series against the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night. Barmes lead the Rockies with a solo home run and finished the game with four rbi out of the lead off spot as the Rockies beat the Giants 15-6. The Rockies will now be going for the three game sweep of the Giants as they face off once again on Thursday night.

Besides Barmes’s four rbi’s, the Rockies got three rbi from Matt Holliday and Garret Atkins and then two from Chris Iannetta. Troy Tuluwitzki, Ryan Spilborghs, and Jeff Baker all helped out with the scoring cause as they all three finished with one rbi each.

On the mound for the Rockies it was Livan Hernandez who pitched seven innings to get the win. Hernandez did give up 12 hits and five runs but it was ok as the offense put up so many runs on the scoreboard. Steven Register was charged with one run in relief as well.

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In a low scoring game on Wednesday afternoon, the Colorado Rockies used five pitchers to shut out the San Diego Padres 1-0. The five pitchers limited the Padres offense to only five hits while striking out six batters. Great job by the pithing staff!

Livan Hernandez tossed the first five innings of the game and picked up the win to improve to 2-3 on the year. He allowed three of the Padres five hits but did a good job by not allowing a run to score. Glendon Rusch, Ryan Speier, Manny Corpus, and Brian Fuentes all threw out of th bullpen for the rockies.

Joe Koshansky hit his third home run of the season when he went deep in the fourth inning off of Josh Geer. That was the only run for the Rockies even though they had eight hits in the game. As a team they struck out 10 times and left 13 runners on base. Not much production at all, and to be honest the rox were lucky to win on Wednesdsay.

Rockies will now be off on Thursday and then take on the Arizona Diamondbacks this weekend.

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The Colorado Rockies finished up a four game series with the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night and they came out on the losing end by the score of 4-1. The Rockies offense just couldn’t get anything going against Giants starter Tim Lincecum who struck out 10 rockies. After winning the first two games in the series, the Rockies dropped the final two and ended up with a split.

Livan Hernandez got the start for the Rox on the mound and he gave up five hits and two runs in 6 1/3 innings. Hernandez took the loss and is now 1-3 for the Rockies with an 11.09 era. Both of the runs that Livan gave up were solo home runs as he wasn’t keeping the ball down. Luis Vizcaino allowed two more runs to score in the eighth inning when he ran into trouble.

Troy Tulowitzki had the only rbi for the Rockies. Tulo had a rbi single in the second inning and that score Chris Iannetta. At the time, the rbi single put the Rockies up 1-0 and they held that lead until the seventh inning when the Giants finally got to Hernandez.

The Rockies have an off day on Thursday and then will start up a series with the San Diego Padres on Friday.

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