Colorado was three outs from another quiet finish Friday at Coors Field, then turned a game that seemed lost into its first walk-off win of the season. Trailing 6-3 entering the ninth, the Rockies scored five times and beat the Giants 8-6 when Ezequiel Tovar launched a two-run homer to end it.
The win lifted Colorado to 21-37 and dropped San Francisco to 22-35, but the result mattered more than the record. Tovar drove in four runs with homers in the eighth and ninth innings, and Hunter Goodman forced the game back to even with a three-run shot in the ninth before Tovar finished it. Goodman put it plainly afterward, saying his homer tied it and Tovar's second homer of the night delivered the club's first walk-off win of the year.
That burst was the only clean answer Colorado had after spending much of the night wasting chances. The Rockies opened with a 1-0 lead in the second inning on a delayed steal play that scored Tovar, then let San Francisco claw ahead 3-1 in the fourth and stretch the margin to 4-1 in the eighth. Even with the early edge, Colorado had already left runs on the field before the ninth, a familiar problem for a team trying to end a losing streak against a division opponent.
The comeback also put a hard edge on a night that had largely belonged to the Giants' pitching plan until it fell apart. Logan Webb was back from the injured list and held Colorado to one run on three hits and three walks over 4.1 innings, needing 86 pitches to get through his outing. Michael Lorenzen, meanwhile, gave up three runs on five hits, two walks and two strikeouts over 3.2 innings, and Edouard Julien finally broke through in the second inning with his first hit in 35 at-bats, snapping an 0-for-34 skid.
By the time the ninth arrived, San Francisco had built what should have been enough. Caleb Kilian allowed five runs in that inning and Juan Mejia earned the win despite giving up two runs in the top of the frame, a sequence that left the Giants stunned and Colorado breathing again. The question now is whether this becomes a turning point or just a wild Friday night that briefly interrupted a losing season.
