Colorado loses 10th straight to Giants

GIANTS 5, ROCKIES 4

Rockies relief pitcher Brent Suter, center, is pulled from the game by manager Bud Black, right, as catcher Austin Wynns stands on the mound during the seventh inning against the Giants on Wednesday in Denver. DAVID ZALUBOWSKI — THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

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By Patrick Saunders

psaunders@denverpost.com

Connor Seabold answered the Rockies’ desperate prayers. The right-hander took a no-hitter into the sixth inning and pitched into the seventh.

He was brilliant.

And it still wasn’t enough to beat the Giants, who are leaving their footprints all over Coors Field.

The Giants roared back to score five unanswered runs and steal a 5-4 victory Wednesday night in front of an announced crowd of 24,149. It was San Francisco’s 10th consecutive win in LoDo, where they won for the 15th time in the last 18 games.

The Rockies — their rotation a shambles, their bullpen taxed to the max — needed quality innings from Seabold. Especially after Colorado threw 240 pitches in an ugly 10-4 loss to San Francisco Tuesday night. Seabold delivered six-plus innings, giving up two runs on two hits with four strikeouts. He had the Giants fishing for his changeup from the beginning of the game.

But the Rockies’ victory began evaporating in the seventh. Ominously, Seabold issued a leadoff walk to Michael Conforto and then gave up a single to Mitch Haniger. That was it for Seabold, who received a standing ovation when he left the mound.

Enter lefty Brent Suter, who’s been so good for most of the season. But he was not good Wednesday night, failing to record an out. The Giants ripped into him for three consecutive singles, with pinch hitter Austin Slater driving in one run and Casey Schmitt driving in two.

Justin Lawrence temporarily put out the fire, striking out pinch-hitter J.D. Davis and also setting down LaMonte Wade Jr. and Thairo Estrada to end the seventh. But the Giants got to Lawrence in the eighth, cashing in when Joc Pederson drew a leadoff walk, Mitch Haniger was hit by a pitch and Slater smacked an RBI single to score Pederson. Haniger scored the go-ahead run on a pretty sacrifice bunt from Patrick Bailey.

Colorado’s Nolan Jones, who started in right field, provided the night’s fireworks, blasting a 483-foot solo homer into the second deck in right field to lead off the Rockies’ sixth, giving them a 4-0 lead. Jones’ homer off of San Francisco right-hander Brandon Webb was the longest by a Rockies player this season and the second-longest in the majors behind a 485-foot homer by the Yankees’ Giancarlo Stanton on April 2.

The Rockies peppered Webb for three runs on four hits in the second inning, sending eight batters to the plate.

Mike Moustakas, who got the start at first base, led off with a walk, advanced to second on Harold Castro’s single and chugged home on Ezequiel Tovar’s single to left. The big hit of the inning came off the bat of Charlie Blackmon, who ripped a two-run double to right for the 300th double of his career.