DENVER -- Chad Bettis came close to his first complete game. He settled for the best outing of his young career.
Bettis pitched shutout ball into the ninth inning and Nolan Arenado had four hits and four RBIs, leading the Colorado Rockies to an 11-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.
Troy Tulowitzki and Nick Hundley each drove in two runs as Rockies earned a split of the rain-soaked, four-game series.
Bettis (1-0) was nearly unhittable until the ninth inning. Nori Aoki singled on the first pitch of the game, and San Francisco's next hit was Matt Duffy's leadoff single in the eighth.
"This is the best I've felt all year for sure," Bettis said. "We tweaked a couple of more mechanics between the last start and this one, and it's really good to see it come to fruition."
Bettis was charged with two runs and six hits in a career-long 8 1/3 innings. He struck out a career-high seven and walked two.
Aoki led off the ninth with a double and scored on Joe Panik's single to left. Buster Posey's one-out single extended his hitting streak to 16 games. Manager Walt Weiss came to the mound for quick talk but left Bettis in to face Brandon Belt.
"I told him I'd like to let him finish it," Weiss said. "I wanted to make sure he was still feeling strong to get the last couple of outs."
Belt hit an RBI double, and Brooks Brown then got the last two outs.
"It's a shame I couldn't get it," Bettis said. "I didn't feel like I had my legs under me anymore but I knew I had to keep going."
The start of the game was delayed 2 hours, 10 minutes while a thunderstorm moved through the area. All four games in the series were delayed by rain, including both ends of Saturday's doubleheader.
The Rockies have dealt with weather delays at Coors Field throughout the spring. Saturday's nightcap was a makeup of an April 26th rainout, and four other games were either postponed or shortened due to rain.
Colorado's offense had a nice day once the skies cleared.
Arenado tripled and scored in the second. He started Colorado's eight-run fourth with a single and capped it with a three-run drive on the first pitch he saw from reliever Jean Machi.
Hundley and Daniel Descalso had RBI singles and Tulowitzki had a two-run single ahead of Arenado's team-best eighth homer.
Arenado singled up the middle in the sixth to make it 10-0. It was his fifth career four-hit game. He flied out in his last at-bat.
"These days I'm just trying to get hits and hit the ball hard," Arenado said. "It's been a rough couple of weeks. Obviously the cycle would have been nice."
Giants starter Tim Hudson (2-4) remained winless in Colorado after allowing eight runs and six hits in 3 2/3 innings. Hudson is 0-3 in 10 starts at Coors Field. It is the only NL park he has not recorded a win.
San Francisco pitchers came to Denver having not allowed a run in 28 innings and extended it to 34 innings in Friday's opener. The staff allowed 32 runs in the last 28 innings of the weekend series.
"I put us in a pretty bad spot. A long day yesterday, a lot of innings for my bullpen," Hudson said. "I would have liked to have gone further into the game and gone further into the game and handed it over to the bullpen a lot later in the game. I didn't."
TOUGH CALL
Giants 3B Casey McGehee was designated for assignment before the game. McGehee won the NL Comeback Player of the Year award with Miami last season but has struggled this year. McGehee has 10 days to be traded, released or accept an assignment to Triple-A.
TRAINING ROOM
Giants: San Francisco will carry 13 pitchers into the second leg of the road trip because of the heavy workload due to the number of games the team has played. The Giants recalled RHP Hunter Strickland to help a fatigued bullpen. "I'm a little concerned how much we've been using these guys," manager Bruce Bochy said. "We've got to get that pen back in order. I knew it would be a test for us and the bullpen getting through this stretch of games."
Rockies: RHP Jordan Lyles has been diagnosed with a sprained toe on his left foot. He suffered the injury in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader. Weiss said he isn't sure if Lyles can make his next start, which would be Friday in Philadelphia.
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Tim Lincecum (4-2, 2.08 ERA) gets the ball in the opener of a three-game series in Milwaukee on Monday. Lincecum is 4-3 with a 4.16 ERA in 11 career starts against the Brewers.
Rockies: RHP Eddie Butler (2-5, 4.38) opens a three-game series in Cincinnati. Butler has pitched a combined 5 2/3 innings in his last two starts and has seen his ERA jump from 3.73 to 4.38.
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Bettis pitched shutout ball into the ninth inning and Nolan Arenado had four hits and four RBIs, leading the Colorado Rockies to an 11-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Sunday.
Troy Tulowitzki and Nick Hundley each drove in two runs as Rockies earned a split of the rain-soaked, four-game series.
Bettis (1-0) was nearly unhittable until the ninth inning. Nori Aoki singled on the first pitch of the game, and San Francisco's next hit was Matt Duffy's leadoff single in the eighth.
"This is the best I've felt all year for sure," Bettis said. "We tweaked a couple of more mechanics between the last start and this one, and it's really good to see it come to fruition."
Bettis was charged with two runs and six hits in a career-long 8 1/3 innings. He struck out a career-high seven and walked two.
Aoki led off the ninth with a double and scored on Joe Panik's single to left. Buster Posey's one-out single extended his hitting streak to 16 games. Manager Walt Weiss came to the mound for quick talk but left Bettis in to face Brandon Belt.
"I told him I'd like to let him finish it," Weiss said. "I wanted to make sure he was still feeling strong to get the last couple of outs."
Belt hit an RBI double, and Brooks Brown then got the last two outs.
"It's a shame I couldn't get it," Bettis said. "I didn't feel like I had my legs under me anymore but I knew I had to keep going."
The start of the game was delayed 2 hours, 10 minutes while a thunderstorm moved through the area. All four games in the series were delayed by rain, including both ends of Saturday's doubleheader.
The Rockies have dealt with weather delays at Coors Field throughout the spring. Saturday's nightcap was a makeup of an April 26th rainout, and four other games were either postponed or shortened due to rain.
Colorado's offense had a nice day once the skies cleared.
Arenado tripled and scored in the second. He started Colorado's eight-run fourth with a single and capped it with a three-run drive on the first pitch he saw from reliever Jean Machi.
Hundley and Daniel Descalso had RBI singles and Tulowitzki had a two-run single ahead of Arenado's team-best eighth homer.
Arenado singled up the middle in the sixth to make it 10-0. It was his fifth career four-hit game. He flied out in his last at-bat.
"These days I'm just trying to get hits and hit the ball hard," Arenado said. "It's been a rough couple of weeks. Obviously the cycle would have been nice."
Giants starter Tim Hudson (2-4) remained winless in Colorado after allowing eight runs and six hits in 3 2/3 innings. Hudson is 0-3 in 10 starts at Coors Field. It is the only NL park he has not recorded a win.
San Francisco pitchers came to Denver having not allowed a run in 28 innings and extended it to 34 innings in Friday's opener. The staff allowed 32 runs in the last 28 innings of the weekend series.
"I put us in a pretty bad spot. A long day yesterday, a lot of innings for my bullpen," Hudson said. "I would have liked to have gone further into the game and gone further into the game and handed it over to the bullpen a lot later in the game. I didn't."
TOUGH CALL
Giants 3B Casey McGehee was designated for assignment before the game. McGehee won the NL Comeback Player of the Year award with Miami last season but has struggled this year. McGehee has 10 days to be traded, released or accept an assignment to Triple-A.
TRAINING ROOM
Giants: San Francisco will carry 13 pitchers into the second leg of the road trip because of the heavy workload due to the number of games the team has played. The Giants recalled RHP Hunter Strickland to help a fatigued bullpen. "I'm a little concerned how much we've been using these guys," manager Bruce Bochy said. "We've got to get that pen back in order. I knew it would be a test for us and the bullpen getting through this stretch of games."
Rockies: RHP Jordan Lyles has been diagnosed with a sprained toe on his left foot. He suffered the injury in the first game of Saturday's doubleheader. Weiss said he isn't sure if Lyles can make his next start, which would be Friday in Philadelphia.
UP NEXT
Giants: RHP Tim Lincecum (4-2, 2.08 ERA) gets the ball in the opener of a three-game series in Milwaukee on Monday. Lincecum is 4-3 with a 4.16 ERA in 11 career starts against the Brewers.
Rockies: RHP Eddie Butler (2-5, 4.38) opens a three-game series in Cincinnati. Butler has pitched a combined 5 2/3 innings in his last two starts and has seen his ERA jump from 3.73 to 4.38.
4:10PM,EDT,May 24,2015
Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
| View: Play-By-Play | Pitch-By-Pitch | Inning: All | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 |
| San Francisco - Top of 1st | SCORE | |
|---|---|---|
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Aoki singled to center. | 0 | 0 |
| Panik popped out to shortstop. | 0 | 0 |
| Pagán lined out to left. | 0 | 0 |
| Posey grounded out to pitcher. | 0 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Colorado - Bottom of 1st | SCORE | |
| Tim Hudson pitching for San Francisco | SF | COL |
| Blackmon flied out to center. | 0 | 0 |
| Ynoa lined out to left. | 0 | 0 |
| Tulowitzki struck out swinging. | 0 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| San Francisco - Top of 2nd | SCORE | |
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Belt grounded out to second. | 0 | 0 |
| Pence grounded out to second. | 0 | 0 |
| Duffy struck out swinging. | 0 | 0 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Colorado - Bottom of 2nd | SCORE | |
| Tim Hudson pitching for San Francisco | SF | COL |
| Arenado tripled to deep left center. | 0 | 0 |
| Paulsen grounded out to second, Arenado scored. | 0 | 1 |
| Barnes grounded out to third. | 0 | 1 |
| Hundley walked. | 0 | 1 |
| Descalso grounded out to shortstop. | 0 | 1 |
| 1 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| San Francisco - Top of 3rd | SCORE | |
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Arias flied out to right. | 0 | 1 |
| Hudson struck out looking. | 0 | 1 |
| Aoki lined out to shortstop. | 0 | 1 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Colorado - Bottom of 3rd | SCORE | |
| Tim Hudson pitching for San Francisco | SF | COL |
| Bettis grounded out to first. | 0 | 1 |
| Blackmon hit by pitch. | 0 | 1 |
| Ynoa flied out to right. | 0 | 1 |
| Tulowitzki flied out to right. | 0 | 1 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| San Francisco - Top of 4th | SCORE | |
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Panik grounded out to pitcher. | 0 | 1 |
| Pagán flied out to left. | 0 | 1 |
| Posey walked. | 0 | 1 |
| Belt grounded out to second. | 0 | 1 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Colorado - Bottom of 4th | SCORE | |
| Tim Hudson pitching for San Francisco | SF | COL |
| Arenado singled to right. | 0 | 1 |
| Paulsen grounded out to first, Arenado to second. | 0 | 1 |
| Barnes hit by pitch. | 0 | 1 |
| Hundley singled to deep right, Arenado scored, Barnes to third. | 0 | 2 |
| Descalso singled to center, Barnes scored, Hundley to third. | 0 | 3 |
| Bettis grounded out to shortstop, Hundley scored, Descalso to second. | 0 | 4 |
| Blackmon walked. | 0 | 4 |
| Ynoa reached on infield single to shortstop, Descalso to third, Blackmon to second. | 0 | 4 |
| Tulowitzki singled to center, Descalso and Blackmon scored, Ynoa to third. | 0 | 6 |
| Machí relieved Hudson. | 0 | 6 |
| Arenado homered to left (383 feet), Ynoa and Tulowitzki scored. | 0 | 9 |
| Paulsen grounded out to second. | 0 | 9 |
| 8 Runs, 6 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| San Francisco - Top of 5th | SCORE | |
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Pence struck out swinging. | 0 | 9 |
| Duffy grounded out to second. | 0 | 9 |
| Arias flied out to right. | 0 | 9 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Colorado - Bottom of 5th | SCORE | |
| Jean Machi pitching for San Francisco | SF | COL |
| Barnes lined out to left. | 0 | 9 |
| Hundley lined out to center. | 0 | 9 |
| Descalso grounded out to second. | 0 | 9 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| San Francisco - Top of 6th | SCORE | |
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Machí struck out swinging. | 0 | 9 |
| Aoki walked. | 0 | 9 |
| Panik grounded into fielder's choice to second, Aoki out at second. | 0 | 9 |
| Pagán flied out to right. | 0 | 9 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Colorado - Bottom of 6th | SCORE | |
| Jean Machi pitching for San Francisco | SF | COL |
| Blanco in center field. | 0 | 9 |
| Bettis grounded out to first. | 0 | 9 |
| Blackmon struck out swinging. | 0 | 9 |
| Ynoa singled to left. | 0 | 9 |
| Tulowitzki safe at first on error by shortstop Arias, Ynoa to second. | 0 | 9 |
| Arenado singled to center, Ynoa scored, Tulowitzki to second. | 0 | 10 |
| Paulsen flied out to left. | 0 | 10 |
| 1 Runs, 2 Hits, 1 Errors | ||
| San Francisco - Top of 7th | SCORE | |
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Posey lined out to third. | 0 | 10 |
| Belt lined out to left. | 0 | 10 |
| Pence struck out swinging. | 0 | 10 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Colorado - Bottom of 7th | SCORE | |
| Jean Machi pitching for San Francisco | SF | COL |
| Maxwell in right field. | 0 | 10 |
| Barnes doubled to deep center. | 0 | 10 |
| Hundley doubled to deep right center, Barnes scored. | 0 | 11 |
| Descalso flied out to left. | 0 | 11 |
| Bettis walked. | 0 | 11 |
| López relieved Machí. | 0 | 11 |
| Blackmon struck out looking. | 0 | 11 |
| Ynoa grounded out to pitcher. | 0 | 11 |
| 1 Runs, 2 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| San Francisco - Top of 8th | SCORE | |
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Ynoa at shortstop. | 0 | 11 |
| Rosario at first base. | 0 | 11 |
| Paulsen in left field. | 0 | 11 |
| Duffy singled to right. | 0 | 11 |
| Arias grounded into double play, shortstop to second to first, Duffy out at second. | 0 | 11 |
| Susac hit for López. | 0 | 11 |
| Susac struck out swinging. | 0 | 11 |
| 0 Runs, 1 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| Colorado - Bottom of 8th | SCORE | |
| George Kontos pitching for San Francisco | SF | COL |
| Kontos relieved López. | 0 | 11 |
| Rosario grounded out to shortstop. | 0 | 11 |
| Arenado flied out to center. | 0 | 11 |
| Paulsen grounded out to shortstop. | 0 | 11 |
| 0 Runs, 0 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| San Francisco - Top of 9th | SCORE | |
| Chad Bettis pitching for Colorado | SF | COL |
| Aoki doubled to deep left. | 0 | 11 |
| Panik singled to left, Aoki scored. | 1 | 11 |
| Blanco struck out looking. | 1 | 11 |
| Posey singled to right, Panik to second. | 1 | 11 |
| Belt doubled to right, Panik scored, Posey to third. | 2 | 11 |
| Brown relieved Bettis. | 2 | 11 |
| Maxwell grounded into fielder's choice to third, Posey out at home. | 2 | 11 |
| Duffy struck out swinging. | 2 | 11 |
| 2 Runs, 4 Hits, 0 Errors | ||
| San Francisco Giants | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hitters | AB | R | H | RBI | BB | SO | #P | AVG | OBP | SLG |
| Aoki LF | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 | .295 | .374 | .380 |
| Panik 2B | 4 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 9 | .301 | .370 | .418 |
| Pagán CF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | .311 | .335 | .389 |
Blanco CF
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .267 | .347 | .444 |
| Posey C | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | .310 | .382 | .468 |
| Belt 1B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | .311 | .384 | .511 |
| Pence RF | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 8 | .294 | .333 | .441 |
Maxwell RF
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | .239 | .300 | .376 |
| Duffy 3B | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 14 | .297 | .327 | .396 |
| Arias SS | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 11 | .171 | .171 | .257 |
| Hudson P | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 6 | .143 | .200 | .143 |
Machí P
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
López P
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
a-Susac PH
| 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | .200 | .304 | .325 |
Kontos P
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | .000 | .000 | .000 |
| Totals | 32 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 8 | 111 | |||
| a-struck out swinging for J Lopez in the 8th | ||||||||||
| BATTING 2B: Aoki (7, Bettis); Belt (13, Bettis) RBI: Panik (14), Belt (19) GIDP: Arias Giants RISP: 2-4 (Duffy 0-1, Maxwell 0-1, Panik 1-1, Belt 1-1) Team LOB: 5 | ||||||||||
| FIELDING E: Arias (4, ground ball) | ||||||||||
Game Notes
| The game started after a 2 hour and 10 minute delay. |
Game Information
| Stadium | Coors Field, Denver, CO |
| Attendance | 34,404 (68.3% full) - % is based on regular season capacity |
| Game Time | 2:49 |
| Weather | 55 degrees, partly cloudy |
| Wind | 6 mph |
| Umpires | Home Plate - Ed Hickox, First Base - Mike Estabrook, Second Base - Dana DeMuth, Third Base - Paul Nauert |
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