Rockies blow another big lead, lose 11th straight to Giants

Déjà vu.

There certainly was that feeling in the air as the innings crept by Thursday afternoon at Coors Field.

And, sure enough, the Rockies blew another game against the Giants, losing 6-4.

It was the Giants’ 11 consecutive victory over Colorado and gave them their eighth sweep over the Rockies since 2021.

Wednesday night, the Rockies got a terrific start from Connor Seabold but squandered a lead and ended up losing a 5-4 heartbreaker.

Thursday, the Rockies got a solid start from Chase Anderson but coughed up an early 4-0 lead.

Closer Pierce Johnson fell off the highwire in the ninth and blew just his second save of the season.

The right-hander ill-advisidely walked Blake Sabol and pinch-hitter Mike Yastrzemski to open the inning before serving up a run-scoring double to pinch-hitter Brandon Crawford, tying the game 4-4. The Giants took a 5-4 lead on LaMonte Wade Jr.’s sacrifice fly to center, scoring Yastrzemski. They made it 6-4 on Joc Pederson’s RBI single through the right side.

Toss out the first and sixth innings and Anderson would have had a dominating start.

In the first, Thairo Estrada lined a one-out, solo homer to left. In the sixth, J.D. Davis steer a one-out triple into the left-field corner and trotted home on Michael Conforto’s two-run homer into the right-field seats, cutting Colorado’s lead to 4-3. Conforto jumped on Anderson’s 1-0 changeup for his seventh homer of the season.

Still, Anderson gave the Rockies 5 1/3 solid innings, striking out seven and walking only one. In five starts with Colorado since being claimed off waivers from Tampa Bay, he’s posted a 2.67 ERA.

The Rockies roasted right-hander Alex Cobb in the first inning, sending 10 batters to the plate and taking a 4-0 lead. But they didn’t score again as they wrote a new chapter in their trying season.