The Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 15-3 on July 3, 2026, and Jake McCarthy was the reason the game got out of hand so quickly. He drove in six runs, Colorado piled up 18 hits, and the win pulled the Rockies to within one game of San Francisco in the NL West.
McCarthy opened the night by sending the first pitch of the bottom of the first inning over the fence for a 440-foot leadoff home run off Logan Webb. By the time Gabriel Hughes came out of the bullpen for his Major League debut in the seventh inning, Colorado was already ahead 14-3 and the division race had a sharper edge than the scoreline suggested.
That fast start mattered because McCarthy did not just add on later; he kept forcing the Giants to chase. Cole Carrigg added two triples, and Colorado kept moving runners until the lineup had turned one early swing into a full rout. The Rockies scored enough that Ryan Feltner could work with a cushion for most of his night, and he delivered six innings with nine strikeouts and no walks.
Feltner was not spotless, though, and that was the one part of the game that kept it from being a clean shutdown. He allowed three runs, including a 104.1 mph solo homer by Rafael Devers in the sixth inning, and San Francisco also got on the board on a run-scoring single by Casey Schmitt and a play that let Jung Hoo Lee score after Bryce Eldridge's single and Feltner's throwing error. Even so, Feltner struck out the side in the second and finished by striking out Willy Adames to end his night.
The result leaves Colorado at 36-53 and San Francisco at 36-51, a gap that has narrowed enough to matter in a division where every game still has weight. McCarthy's six-RBI night was the kind of performance that can change a series, and Hughes' debut came in a game already decided, which tells you how thoroughly the Rockies controlled it once the first inning got away from Webb and the Giants.
