Where: AT&T Park, San Francisco, California
Temperature: 63°
Umpires: Home - Tim Timmons, 1B - Tim Tschida, 2B - Bob Davidson, 3B - Alfonso Marquez
Attendance: 39211
Matt Cain pitched one-hit ball over eight innings and three San Francisco players homered as the Giants beat the visiting Colorado Rockies 6-1 on Saturday afternoon.
Cain (1-1) struck out eight and didn’t give up a run. The only hit he allowed was Troy Tulowitzki’s leadoff double in the fourth.
Cain retired the final 15 hitters he faced after Tulowitzki’s hit.
Guillermo Mota allowed two ninth-inning hits, including Todd Helton’s run-scoring single, while finishing off the Giants’ second straight win over the Rockies.
Juan Uribe hit a three-run homer in San Francisco’s four-run second inning and Bengie Molina and Aubrey Huff added solo homers for the Giants. Huff went 3-for-4.
San Francisco’s fourth and final second-inning run scored on John Bowker’s sacrifice fly. Molina homered in the third and Huff homered in the eighth.
Colorado’s Esmil Rogers (0-1) lasted just four innings in his second career start. Rogers allowed five runs – four earned – and five hits.
| Colorado | San Francisco | |
| Esmil Rogers | Player | Matt Cain |
| Loss | W/L | Win |
| 4.0 | IP | 8.0 |
| 2 | Strikeouts | 8 |
| 5 | Hits | 1 |
| 9.00 | ERA | 0.00 |
| Colorado | San Francisco | |
| Todd Helton | Player | Aubrey Huff |
| 1 | Hits | 3 |
| 1 | RBI | 1 |
| 0 | HR | 1 |
| 1 | TB | 6 |
| .333 | Avg | .750 |
| Team | Hits | HR | TB | Avg | LOB | K | RBI | BB | SB | Errors |
| Colorado | 3 | 0 | 4 | .100 | 12 | 9 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 1 |
| San Francisco | 10 | 3 | 19 | .333 | 11 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 0 |