San Francisco Giants @ Colorado Rockies (3)

The in-stadium radio announcers are broadcast inside the stadium on the concourses and in the club level so that people can keep track of what is going on when they're not actually in their seats.  In the pre-game discussions, they were talking about how the Giants seem to have given up on the season given that they chose to rest many of the run-producing stars for this evening's game.

New run-producers stepped up.

The third game of the four game series featured Eric Surkamp pitching for the Giants against Drew Pomeranz for the Rockies.  This game stayed tight until late with neither side building more than a 1 run lead at any time.  Yet again, a Giants pitcher helped himself with an RBI single in the second.  Yet again, it was the fielding that let the Rockies down at the crucial moments, with mistakes and errors costing them outs in the 8th inning in which the Giants scored 4 runs to take a 6-3 lead which they would never surrender (despite Casilla's cardiac-closer moment letting the tying run into scoring position!)

Apart from that, the highlights were the two triples by Brett Pill.  Of course, this is a terrific name for puns that the Giants will no doubt be hoping to exploit next year.  He drove in one run in the 6th and two more in the 8th to blow the game open.

Huston Street, the former closer of the Athletics, is now just a setup man for the Rockies - and he was the one that gave up all the runs in the 8th inning, which did not please the home crowd at all.  Lots of booing as he was removed from the game.  And then in the inter-inning Hi-Lo game (basically, Play Your Cards Right, but with baseball cards going on the players' jersey numbers) he was one of the cards that came up in that and that started the booing off again!   Being in Denver, I did wonder about trying to start a cheer for Tim Tebow to pitch ... but thought better of it.

Tonight we saw Fear The Beard junior, as Sergio Romo came in to pitch in the 8th.  The main beard still hasn't made an appearance in the series, but there are rumours that he'll be available for tomorrow's game should he be required.

The San Diego Padres helped out by beating the Arizona Diamondbacks earlier, so with 10 games to go, the division lead for Arizona is now just 5 and their magic number remains at 6.  Will the Giants catch them by the end of the season?  I don't know.  Can they catch them?  Definitely - but the Giants will need to sweep them in Arizona next week and probably cannot afford to drop more than 1 more game and hope that the Dodgers and Pirates can do them a favour too.

I also noticed Jon Miller in the broadcast booths just along from me, doing the Giants radio commentary I presume.

P.S. Royals hammered the White Sox again tonight.