Chase Dollander‘s Labor Day start was, well, laborious.
The rookie right-hander, viewed by the Rockies as their No. 1 starter of the future, continues to struggle mightily at Coors Field. The Giants scored six runs on Dollander in five innings, cruising to an 8-2 win on Monday afternoon.
San Francisco had only five hits off Dollander, but two of them were home runs, and Dollander hurt himself by walking three batters and hitting two. Dollander, 2-12, has an overall ERA of 6.77. In 11 starts at Coors, he has a 9.98 ERA and has served up 12 home runs in 51 innings. On the road, Dollander has a 3.45 ERA over nine starts.
A snapshot of Dollander’s struggles came in the third inning. He had catcher Patrick Bailey in an 0-2 count, but then plunked him. Then, San Francisco right fielder Drew Gilbert, the No. 9 hitter with a .190 average, hit Dollander’s 2-1, 98.7 mph fastball into the right-field seats for a two-run homer.
The Giants’ other homer off Dollander came early. With one out in the first, Rafael Devers lined a 1-2 cutter over the right-field wall. The ball came off Devers’ bat at 115.4 mph, the hardest hit ball by a Giants player in the Statcast era (since 2015).
Dollander’s fifth inning was a mess. He hit Casey Schmitt in the elbow to lead off the inning, gave up a single to Gilbert, and issued back-to-back, two-out walks to Devers and Willy Adames to load the bases. Dollander paid for his generosity when Dominic Smith lucked into a two-run, check-swing single down the third-base line.
Adames lofted a soft, 353-foot homer off Anthony Molina in the seventh, extending San Francisco’s lead to 8-2.
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Although the Rockies outhit the Giants, 13-11, they finished the game with 10 strikeouts and were 2 for 12 with RISP. Seven of the Rockies’ first eight Ks came with runners in scoring position.
Colorado dodged its 15th shutout of the season by scoring twice in the sixth. Brenton Doyle led off with a single, and Ezequiel Tovar doubled into the right-field corner. Doyle scored on Kyle Karro’s groundout to third, and Tovar scored on Yanquiel Fernandez’s double to left-center.
Tovar’s milestone double was the 100th of his career. Tovar, 24, joined former Rockies’ star third baseman Nolan Arenado as the only two players in franchise history to hit 100 doubles before age 25.
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