DENVER – Alex Dickerson hit three home runs and matched a career record with six RBIs, highlighting one of the biggest offensive shows ever on Course Field when the San Francisco Giants beat the Colorado Rockies 23-5 on Tuesday.
Brandon Crawford and Donovan Solano also finished the night with six RBIs, marking the first time in MLB history that three players had six RBIs per game.
“This is by far the best game I’ve ever played in my life,” said Dickerson, who just missed a fourth home run in his last beat in the ninth inning but settled on a 414-foot double that reached a warning. track in the center.
“I don’t think I’ve seen so many drums from the same guy in one game before,” said Crawford, who was also one of his three shots. “I thought he got that last one too. That would be pretty cool. “
Dickerson finished with 16 full bases (three homers, two takes), setting the Giants franchise record set by Willie Mays on April 30, 1961 at the Milwaukee Braves. According to the Elias Sports Bureau, he is the 15th player in MLB history and only 12th since 1901 to have five extra hits in the game.
“This is an incredible company,” Dickerson said. “Things [Mays] did in his career and everything that he means for San Francisco, even to be mentioned in the same breath with him is an incredible honor. “
Solano also had four hits, and Brandon’s Belt and Joey Bart had three hits each, as the Giants averaged 27 hits and scored in every inning except for a ninth win for the 10th time in 13 games.
The Giants scored 0.519 overnight (27/52), their best in the game since July 25, 1961.
The Giants’ 27 hits are the most shots in an NL game in over 20 seasons. The most recent NL team with over 26 hits was the Cincinnati Reds, which had 28 matches at Coors Field on May 19, 1999.
“There have been a lot of good performances both up and down the squad,” said Giants manager Gabe Kapler.
23 runs became the third most permitted Rocky Mountain in team history. The Chicago Cubs scored 26 goals against Colorado on August 18, 1995, and the Reds scored 24 in the 1999 game. The Giants ’27 hits were the second most shots for the Rockies, matching the Cubs’ total hits in the 1995 game.
Since the first season of the Rockies in 1993, there have been three games in which the NL team had at least 27 hits. All three played at Coors Field.
“We have to go around the vans a bit here,” said Rockies manager Bud Black. “With the pitch, we had a couple of tough nights on the embankment, coinciding with a couple of tough nights on the plate. This is a bad combination. We have to put them together, that’s for sure. “
Starter giants Kevin Gausman (2-2) went five innings and gave up two hits and two runs, both in singles home runs Garrett Hampson…
Catcher Drew Butera smashed the last two opportunities for the Rocky Mountains. It was the seventh performance in a positional player’s career and his first appearance since 2018 when he was a member of the Kansas City royal family.
Dickerson showed his power – the first multi-player game of his career – with his powerful solo first inning kick that landed in a third deck overlooking right field. 480-foot ride John Gray (2-4) was the longest home run for a Giants player since 2015.
It followed with a two-way drive in the second inning and a three-way homer from Jairo diaz in the Giants’ seven-speed sixth inning, their biggest all night. Crawford also had a three-way Homer in the sixth.
Dickerson doubled and scored between his last two Homers, took a step in the eighth and doubled on the warning lane in Booth’s midfield in the ninth.
