Cron helps Rockies end 12-game skid vs Giants with 5-3 win

DENVER — C.J. Cron hit a tiebreaking two-run homer in a threerun eighth inning, and the Colorado Rockies stopped their 12-game losing streak against San Francisco by rallying past the Giants 5-3 on Wednesday.

Logan Webb retired 16 straight batters in pursuit of becoming the major leagues’ first six-game winner and led 3-2 when pinch-hitter Connor Joe singled leading off the eighth.

José Álvarez (1-1) relieved, Charlie Blackmon sacrificed and Yonathan Daza extended his hitting streak to 11 games with an RBI single.

Cron followed with a 454-foot drive to left on a 3-1 changeup for his 10th home run. It was the first homer allowed by Alvarez since May 29.

“It was huge,” said Cron, who hadn’t homered since May 3. “We haven’t been playing the best baseball recently, especially at home. So to be able to get that one today, especially against those guys — we haven’t had much success against them either — it was a big game for us.”

Blackmon hit his 37th leadoff home run and Brendan Rodgers added an RBI single in the first for Colorado, which stopped a three-game skid overall.

Tyler Kinley (1-0) pitched a scoreless eighth, and Daniel Bard pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save after blowing his last opportunity as the Rockies ended two seasons worth of frustration against San Francisco. The consecutive losses against one opponent had neared the Colorado record of 16 to Atlanta from 1993-94.

After walking two in the second, Webb got out of trouble and used a dominant slider to shut down the Rockies through seven innings with six strikeouts.

“He was cruising up to that point,” manager Gabe Kapler said. “It was a consideration to not have him go back out (for the eighth), but he felt good and we felt good about it.”

Mike Yastrzemski, who entered 20 for 59 over the previous 17 games, was dropped to ninth in the Giants order against a lefty starter.

He delivered an RBI single in a tworun second and had a leadoff double and scored the go-ahead run on Darin Ruf’s sacrifice fly in the fourth.

Kyle Freeland needed 65 pitches through three innings but settled down to allow seven hits and strike out eight in six innings.

Blackmon pulled an 0-2 changeup to right in what was only the second homer allowed by Webb in 41 1/3 innings.

“I pride myself on even if I don’t have great stuff to try to win the game,” Webb said. “And we didn’t win the game. But there are some good takeaways from it.”