SAN FRANCISCO (Interstat) — Tyler Mahle pitched seven innings of five-hit ball as the San Francisco Giants defeated the Colorado Rockies 4-2 on Saturday evening at Oracle Park. Mahle allowed one earned run with four strikeouts to earn his second win against eight losses. JT Brubaker recorded his first save, pitching two innings and yielding one run. Kyle Freeland took the loss for Colorado, giving up four earned runs on six hits in six innings while striking out nine.

The Giants broke a 1-1 tie in the sixth when Casey Schmitt hit a three-run homer, scoring Heliot Ramos and Luis Arraez. Jesus Rodriguez had an RBI double in the fifth to tie the game. Colorado scored in the third on a solo homer by Kyle Karros and added a run in the eighth. The Rockies had six hits, the Giants seven. Attendance was 35,194, with a game time of 2:16. San Francisco improved to 40-55, Colorado dropped to 39-58.