Giants drop second straight series in loss to Rockies
DENVER – Giants manager Bruce Bochy’s farewell tour around the country has taken him to stadiums and cities he’ll miss dearly when he retires after the season.
It also brought him to Coors Field, a ballpark he’d rather avoid altogether.
Bochy spent Sunday morning reminiscing about all of the dark chapters his teams have authored in Denver over his 25-year career. In the Giants’ final game in Colorado this season, they wrote their manager another.
Rookie starter Tyler Beede gave up three first inning runs and couldn’t complete four frames while a slumping Giants offense didn’t pose much of a threat in a 6-2 loss.
“As a competitor, I need to do better than that,” Beede said. “With the position the bullpen was in the last couple of days, I felt a responsibility to go a little deeper than that and that’s really the biggest thing I was bummed about.”
The defeat dropped the Giants back to .500 on the season as the Rockies handed them their second consecutive series loss. After the club won 16 of 19 games to open the month of July, the Giants have already
lost three of their first four in August.
Bochy wrapped up his career at Coors Field with a 96-118 record in 214 games at the stadium. He called it the hardest place to manage because of the demands the stadium creates for pitching staffs and on Sunday, it was not hard to see why.
Beede gave up eight hits and five runs in 3 2/3 innings in a start that required Bochy to deplete his long relief depth ahead of a pivotal ninegame homestand featuring series against three teams with winning records.
Beede’s continued struggles are an increasing source of concern for a Giants organization that’s short on starting pitching depth at the upper levels. Since shutting
out the Padres with eight innings of three-hit ball on July 19, Beede has posted a 7.98 ERA over his past three appearances.
“It’s been three in a row where the results haven’t lined up,” Beede said.
His struggles have coincided with those of Shaun Anderson and Dereck Rodriguez, who was optioned following a rough outing on Thursday in Philadelphia.