The Giants were held without a hit for eight innings but were still three outs from winning.
DENVER — Gabe Kapler broke one of his golden rules to dish out a dose of optimism before Friday’s game against the Rockies. The Giants’ analytically inclined manager doesn’t like small sample sizes. But his club’s past home stand provided an opportunity to highlight one.
With a double to lead off the ninth inning, J.D. Davis saved the Giants from making ignominious history as only the second team to ever be no-hit at the mile-high hitter’s haven the Rockies call home. There still hasn’t been a no-hitter thrown here since Hideo Nomo did it in 1996, the second year of the ballpark’s existence.
Anderson was far from dominant. He issued five walks and was forced out of the game by his pitch count, no-no still intact, after seven innings. It wasn’t a bid for perfection, and the blips along the way put the Giants six outs away from making a different kind of history. The third hit surrendered by Webb, however, turned into the Rockies’ first run. Ryan McMahon doubled to lead off the eighth and scored the tying run two batters later, when Ezequiel Tovar singled into center field. Austin Slater came up firing but his throw home was late.
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