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The Colorado Rockies will be making their second trip to AT&T Park this season, where they swept the San Francisco Giants in April.
San Francisco is 40-34 this season, a game behind the Dodgers in the NL West race, but is just 3-6 against the last-place Rockies in 2015. When two teams last met, they split a four-game series in late May at Coors Field. The Giants are 15-14 in the 29 games since that seties concluded, while the Rockies are 15-15.
Hitters to watch
The Giants have been led offensively both this season and recently by catcher Buster Posey, who is hitting .293/.369/.469 with 11 home runs in 70 games this season. He is the only Giant with double-digit home runs this season.
In addition to Posey, third baseman Matt Duffy has been strong of late, hitting .279/.340/.488 in the last month with a trio of home runs. Duffy has hit .288/.338/.439 this season with six home runs in 205 at bats.
2015 hitting stats
Name | G | PA | HR | R | RBI | SB | BB% | K% | ISO | BABIP | AVG | OBP | SLG | wOBA | wRC+ | BsR | Off | Def | WAR |
Joe Panik | 71 | 305 | 6 | 38 | 29 | 3 | 9.5% | 11.5% | .153 | .335 | .310 | .380 | .463 | .368 | 141 | 0.3 | 14.7 | 2.2 | 2.8 |
Angel Pagan | 70 | 292 | 0 | 24 | 19 | 4 | 5.1% | 14.7% | .059 | .316 | .271 | .305 | .330 | .280 | 81 | 2.8 | -3.6 | -2.1 | 0.4 |
Nori Aoki | 67 | 291 | 2 | 33 | 19 | 12 | 7.9% | 5.8% | .069 | .333 | .317 | .383 | .385 | .344 | 125 | -1.5 | 6.7 | 2.3 | 1.9 |
Buster Posey | 70 | 290 | 11 | 37 | 48 | 1 | 10.7% | 8.6% | .176 | .288 | .293 | .369 | .469 | .364 | 138 | -2.1 | 10.8 | 3.7 | 2.5 |
Brandon Crawford | 72 | 282 | 9 | 35 | 44 | 4 | 8.2% | 20.2% | .194 | .323 | .274 | .351 | .468 | .355 | 132 | 1.4 | 11.8 | 3.0 | 2.5 |
Brandon Belt | 68 | 267 | 9 | 34 | 31 | 2 | 9.7% | 27.7% | .214 | .353 | .269 | .345 | .483 | .357 | 133 | 0.2 | 10.4 | -0.3 | 2.0 |
Matt Duffy | 61 | 224 | 6 | 23 | 34 | 2 | 5.4% | 18.3% | .151 | .333 | .288 | .338 | .439 | .340 | 122 | 0.9 | 6.5 | 3.1 | 1.8 |
Justin Maxwell | 59 | 176 | 6 | 18 | 21 | 1 | 5.1% | 25.6% | .153 | .257 | .215 | .263 | .368 | .277 | 79 | -0.7 | -4.9 | 2.4 | 0.3 |
Gregor Blanco | 54 | 152 | 1 | 25 | 13 | 4 | 11.2% | 19.1% | .128 | .371 | .301 | .375 | .429 | .343 | 124 | 0.5 | 4.7 | -3.0 | 0.7 |
Casey McGehee | 47 | 136 | 2 | 7 | 11 | 0 | 8.1% | 20.6% | .088 | .263 | .216 | .279 | .304 | .263 | 70 | -4.5 | -9.3 | -0.6 | -0.6 |
Andrew Susac | 27 | 82 | 1 | 10 | 4 | 0 | 12.2% | 23.2% | .139 | .365 | .278 | .366 | .417 | .346 | 126 | -0.9 | 1.5 | -1.5 | 0.3 |
Hunter Pence | 18 | 76 | 2 | 13 | 13 | 1 | 6.6% | 18.4% | .169 | .327 | .282 | .329 | .451 | .339 | 122 | 0.5 | 2.4 | -3.8 | 0.1 |
Joaquin Arias | 32 | 49 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0.0% | 16.3% | .083 | .205 | .188 | .188 | .271 | .199 | 26 | 0.0 | -4.2 | -2.1 | -0.5 |
Travis Ishikawa | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 100.0% | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | .000 | -100 | 0.0 | -0.7 | 0.0 | -0.1 |
Pitchers to watch
For the first time this season, the Rockies will face Giants ace and reigning World Series MVP Madison Bumgarner. Thus far in 2015, Bumgarner has a 3.04 ERA and 1.05 WHIP in 100⅔ innings in his 15 starts. He has walked 18 and struck out 102.
Sunday's start will be the 21st of Bumgarner's career against the Rockies. He has a 3.13 ERA and 1.26 WHIP in his 126⅓ innings against the Rockies, numbers which drop to 2.11 and 1.11 against them at AT&T Park.
2015 pitching stats
Name | W | L | SV | G | GS | IP | K/9 | BB/9 | HR/9 | BABIP | LOB% | GB% | HR/FB | ERA | FIP | xFIP | WAR |
Madison Bumgarner | 7 | 4 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 100.2 | 9.12 | 1.61 | 0.89 | .289 | 79.2% | 40.4% | 10.0% | 3.04 | 3.03 | 3.13 | 2.2 |
Chris Heston | 8 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 15 | 91.2 | 7.76 | 2.26 | 0.59 | .310 | 69.6% | 54.2% | 10.0% | 3.73 | 3.22 | 3.28 | 1.6 |
Tim Hudson | 5 | 6 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 85.2 | 4.52 | 2.21 | 1.16 | .299 | 73.9% | 57.5% | 18.3% | 4.52 | 4.69 | 3.99 | -0.1 |
Ryan Vogelsong | 6 | 5 | 0 | 15 | 13 | 80 | 6.64 | 3.71 | 1.13 | .267 | 74.0% | 42.3% | 10.6% | 4.05 | 4.57 | 4.59 | 0.0 |
Tim Lincecum | 7 | 4 | 0 | 14 | 14 | 74.2 | 7.11 | 4.34 | 0.84 | .292 | 75.4% | 44.3% | 8.9% | 3.86 | 4.24 | 4.49 | 0.3 |
Yusmeiro Petit | 1 | 1 | 1 | 20 | 1 | 41.2 | 6.05 | 1.73 | 1.94 | .236 | 81.9% | 29.9% | 13.6% | 4.10 | 5.22 | 4.62 | -0.5 |
George Kontos | 1 | 0 | 0 | 34 | 0 | 36.2 | 6.14 | 1.23 | 0.74 | .208 | 85.3% | 40.6% | 8.3% | 1.72 | 3.22 | 3.53 | 0.2 |
Santiago Casilla | 4 | 1 | 19 | 32 | 0 | 28 | 9.64 | 3.54 | 0.96 | .288 | 88.4% | 45.3% | 11.1% | 2.25 | 3.75 | 3.71 | 0.1 |
Jean Machi | 1 | 0 | 0 | 25 | 0 | 27.1 | 5.93 | 3.95 | 0.66 | .283 | 62.8% | 51.1% | 7.7% | 5.27 | 4.17 | 4.55 | -0.1 |
Sergio Romo | 0 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 23.2 | 13.31 | 2.28 | 0.38 | .386 | 62.9% | 44.8% | 5.6% | 4.18 | 1.59 | 2.10 | 0.9 |
Jeremy Affeldt | 0 | 2 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 22.2 | 5.16 | 4.37 | 1.99 | .329 | 74.3% | 56.8% | 29.4% | 5.96 | 6.42 | 4.60 | -0.9 |
Javier Lopez | 0 | 0 | 0 | 36 | 0 | 21.1 | 5.91 | 2.53 | 0.00 | .145 | 78.6% | 74.5% | 0.0% | 1.27 | 2.64 | 3.10 | 0.3 |
Hunter Strickland | 0 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 0 | 16.1 | 10.47 | 1.65 | 0.00 | .350 | 72.2% | 42.5% | 0.0% | 2.76 | 1.52 | 2.54 | 0.6 |
Probable pitchers
Game 1 (June 26): Chad Bettis vs. Tim Hudson
Game 2 (June 27): Chris Rusin vs. Tim Lincecum
Game 3 (June 28): Kyle Kendrick vs. Madison Bumgarner