Crawford has their number: 8

DENVER — With nearly every swing, Brandon Crawford’s day at the plate got better and better.

Crawford went 5-for-6 with two home runs and tied a San Francisco team record with eight RBIs, and the Giants scored a season high in runs in a 19-2 rout of the Rockies on Monday in the first game of a split doubleheader.

“I never expect a five-hit game to come along, but yeah, I have been feeling a lot better at the plate,” Crawford said. “I’ve been feeling good, seeing the ball well. You expect to get hits when that happens.” The rest of the Giants followed his lead. Mike Yastrzemski went 4-for-6 with a homer, and Buster Posey also went deep for San Francisco, which earned a rare victory at Coors Field in the makeup for a May 8 rainout. Crawford has eight home runs on the season.

It was just the fifth win in the Giants’ last 25 games at the Rockies’ ballpark, though San Francisco has been hot recently, winning nine of its past 11.

For the Rockies, it was the most runs they have ever allowed to the Giants. It marked only the fourth time in Rockies history that they had lost by at least 17 runs, and the first since losing by 17 to Florida on Sept. 17, 1995.

Others in the San Francisco era with eight RBIs in a game are Willie Mays on April 30, 1961, and Orlando Cepeda on July 4, 1961.

Jeff Samardzija (7-7), who had allowed 17 runs in 121⁄ innings in losing his last three starts at Colorado, didn’t give up a run until Raimel Tapia homered to center with two outs in the sixth inning.