AP News
(2010-07-03 02:53:35)
DENVER, Colorado (Reuters) - Not even Tim Lincecum, the two-times reigning Cy Young Award winner, could get a win for San Francisco as the Giants gave up a sixth-inning rally to the Colorado Rockies and suffered their seventh straight loss.
Lincecum was a pale imitation of his dominant self in his latest outing as he gave up four runs on nine hits and left the game after six innings with only four strikeouts as the Giants fell 6-3 to the Rockies.
With the score tied in the bottom of the sixth inning, the Rockies finally got the better of the 26-year-old Lincecum, who allowed a lead-off double that came in to score four batters later on a sacrifice fly.
The Rockies added another two runs in the eighth inning.
Aubrey Huff drove in all of San Francisco's runs with a pair of home runs, including a two-run shot in the first inning that gave the Giants a 2-0 lead just three batters into the game.
Three Rockies relief pitchers combined for three no-hit innings to preserve the win for starter Jhoulys Chacin, who survived a difficult first inning and allowed five hits and three runs while striking out five in six innings.
The loss, San Francisco's ninth in the past 10 games, drops the team to fourth place in the National League West division, six games back of the San Diego Padres.
(Writing by Mike Mouat in Windsor, Ontario; Editing by Frank Pingue)
