Rockies Ride McCarthy’s Bat Past Giants 8‑3

DENVER (Interstat) — Jake McCarthy drove in four runs with three hits, including a home run, and Ryan Feltner pitched six scoreless innings to lead the Colorado Rockies to an 8-3 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Saturday at Coors Field.

Colorado jumped ahead 2-0 in the first inning on a run-scoring single by Willi Castro and a hit batter that forced in another run. McCarthy homered in the fourth inning, added an RBI single in the fifth and another in the seventh. T.J. Rumfield also had an RBI single in the seventh.

Drew Gilbert hit a two-run homer for the Giants in the eighth inning, and Matt Chapman had an RBI single in the ninth. San Francisco managed nine hits.

Feltner (2-1) allowed four hits while striking out two. Adrian Houser (2-5) took the loss. The attendance was 31,085, and the game lasted 2 hours, 33 minutes.

The Rockies evened their record at 22-37. The Giants fell to 22-36.