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SAN FRANCISCO GIANTS 2015 GAME NOTES 24 Willie Mays Plaza • San Francisco, CA 94107 • Phone: 415-972-2000 sfgiants.com • sfgigantes.com • sfgiantspressbox.com • @SFGiants • @los_gigantes • @SFG_Stats San Francisco Giants (25-19) at Colorado Rockies (16-25) RHP Tim Hudson (2-3, 4.01) vs. RHP Chad Bettis (0-0, 5.73) Game #45/Road Game #22 • May 24, 2015 • Coors Field • 1:10 p.m. (PT) • CSN Bay Area • KNBR 680 UPCOMING PROBABLE STARTING PITCHERS & BROADCAST SCHEDULE: Date Opp Time (PT) Giants Starter Opposing Starter TV Mon., May 25 at MIL 11:10 a.m. RHP Tim Lincecum (4-2, 2.08) RHP Kyle Lohse (3-4, 5.53) CSN Bay Area Tues., May 26 at MIL 5:10 p.m. LHP Madison Bumgarner (5-2, 2.84) RHP Matt Garza (2-6, 5.71) CSN Bay Area Wed., May 27 at MIL 10:40 a.m. RHP Ryan Vogelsong (3-2, 4.60) RHP Wily Peralta (1-5, 4.00) CSN Bay Area All games broadcast on KNBR 680 AM (English radio). All home games and road games in LA and SD broadcast on KTRB 860 AM ESPN Deportes (Spanish radio). TODAY'S GAME: The Giants claimed an eighth consecutive GIANTS ON THIS ROAD TRIP TO GIANTS BY THE NUMBERS win for the first time since Sept. 2011 by holding on for a 10-8 COLORADO AND MILWAUKEE win in game one of yesterday's doubleheader, but fell 5-3 NOTE 2015 in the nightcap...the Giants look to take three of four games Games . 3 Current Standing in NL West:. .2nd from the Rockies with a win today. Record . 2-1 Series Record:. 7-4-2 Average. .325 (37x114) Series Record, home:. 4-2-1 Avg. w/RISP. .412 (14x34) TODAY'S TRANSACTION: Following last night's game Runs Per Game. 8.0 (24) Series Record, road:. 3-2-1 the Giants optioned RHP Hunter Strickland to triple-A Home Runs. 2 Series Openers:. 8-6 Sacramento...prior to today's game SF has designated IF Stolen Bases. .1 Series Finales:. 6-6 Casey McGehee for assignment and have recalled RHP Sweeps by Giants:. 3 Hunter Strickland from triple-A. ERA . .7.27 (21er, 26.0ip) Sweeps by Opponent:. 1 Starters W-L. .2-1 Most Games Over .500. .7 HUDSON SEEKING WIN AT COORS: RHP Tim Hudson is 0-2 Starters ERA. .5.09 (10er, 17.2ip) Most Games Under .500. 6 Relievers W-L. 0-0 Current Streak:. L1 lifetime with a 6.80 ERA (37er, 49.0ip) in nine starts here at Relievers ERA. 11.88 (11er, 8.1ip) Coors Field, one of only two current ballparks that he's winless Saves/Chances. 2/2 Longest Win Streak. 8, May 15-22 at in his career (the other is Target Field in Minnesota, although Longest Losing Streak. 8, April 10-17 he's had just one start in that facility)...the only other park that Home Record:. 14-9 Hudson never won a game at was the original Yankee Stadium Road Record: . 11-10 (0-2 in six starts)...Hudson is winelss in seven starts versus the BEST WINNING PCT. IN Day Record:. 8-4 Rockies since a 1-0 victory for Atlanta on Sept. 6, 2012. MAJORS BEGINNING APRIL 21 Night Record:. 17-15 vs. NL West:. 16-15 Team Win Pct vs. NL Central:. 3-1 RIDING HIGH: Despite a loss last night, the Giants have still San Francisco .700 (21-9) won 10 of their last 13 games...since April 21, SF has posted vs. NL East:. .2-2 Houston .677 (21-10) vs. American League:. .4-1 a 21-9 (.700) record, which stands as the best figure in the Minnesota .655 (19-10) Majors. vs. RH starters:. .17-16 vs. LH starters: . 8-3 2-OUT RUNS: Nearly 50% of the Giants' runs this season have Giants Score First:. .21-8 come with two outs, as 90 of their 179 runs have come with MOST TWO OUT RUNS IN ML Opp. Score First:. .4-11 two outs...only the D-Backs have scored more two out runs Leading After 6:. .22-0 Team 2-out runs Trailing After 6:. 1-17 than the Giants (92)...the Giants' last 17 runs scored have Arizona 92 all come with two outs, which according to the Elias Sports San Francisco 90 Tied After 6:. 2-2 Bureau, is the longest such streak by the Giants since they New York-AL 87 Leading After 7:. .21-0 moved to San Francisco in 1958...the previous high since then Toronto 86 Trailing After 7:. 1-17 was 16 straight runs with two outs in July 2009. Tied After 7:. 3-2 Leading After 8:. .20-0 MAY MAGIC: The Giants have posted a 16-6 (.727) record this month, the second-best figure Trailing After 8:. 2-19 in the big leagues behind the Nationals' 15-5 (.750) record...over the last two seasons, the Tied After 8:. 3-0 Giants have gone 36-15 (.706) in the month of May (20-9 in May last season), tops in the Extra-Inning Games: . .3-1 Majors. One-run Games:. 10-5 Two (or fewer)-run Games: . .11-10 CROSSING HOME: San Francisco has scored a National League-best 113 runs this month Giants Score 5 or more:. 14-2 (5.14 per game) in 22 games...only the Texas Rangers have scored more in the Majors (116). Giants Score 4 or more:. 17-4 Giants Score 3 or less:. .7-15 Giants Score 2 or less:. .5-10 HUNTER'S HIT STREAK VERSUS GIANTS, LONGEST HITTING STREAKS VS. ROCKIES, ALL-TIME ROX: OF Hunter Pence enters today's Player Hit Streak Start End Giants Make No Errors:. .14-11 game with a 19-game hitting streak Hunter Pence 19 April 21, 2014 --- Giants Make Error(s):. 11-8 against the Rockies, the longest Barry Bonds 18 Sept. 4, 2002 June 6, 2004 Giants Outhit Opp.: . .20-5 hitting streak by a Giants player Marco Scutaro 15 Aug. 11, 2012 May 18, 2013 Opp. Outhits Giants:. .3-10 versus Colorado all-time...Pence is Jeff Kent 14 May 26, 2002 Aug. 29, 2002 Come-From-Behind Wins:. 5 hitting .429 (30x70) with five home Buster Posey 14 Sept. 19, 2012 Aug. 26, 2013 C-F-B Wins (trailing by 3+): . .0 runs and 16 RBI during this stretch. chart courtesty of STATS, LLC C-F-B Wins (trailing by 4+): . .0 C-F-B Wins (trailing by 5+): . .0 CRAWFORD'S RBI: IF Brandon Crawford has driven in 14 runs in his last nine games and Blown Leads. .9 leads the team with 31 RBI, which are tied for the eighth-most in the Majors...he's also hit Largest Blown Lead .2 (3x), last: May 14 at CIN safely in each of his last nine contests, batting .444 (16-for-36). Giants hit 0 HR: . 10-11 Giants hit at least 1 HR:. 15-8 POSEY AT THE PLATE: C Buster Posey has hit safely in a season-best 15-consecutive games, Giants hit 2+ HRs:. 7-1 batting .367 (22-for-60)...he's also reached base safely via hit, walk or hit by pitch in his last MANAGER BRUCE BOCHY 24 games, the second-longest active streak in the Majors behind St. Louis' Matt Holliday (42). Manager Bruce Bochy is in his ninth season as the Giants' skipper...60-year- GIANTS WITH RISP: The Giants are hitting .387 (46x119) with RISP in their past 12 games. old signed a contract extension with SF through 2019 on April 3...during his TOMORROW: MLB will again participate in the National Moment of Remembrance during tenure with the Giants, the team has Memorial Day Weekend, a program it has participated in since 1997, to honor soldiers who posted a 692-648 (.516) record...his lost their lives during active military duty...MLB will conduct a moment of silence before all 1,643 victories overall are the highest games throughout the weekend and all games on Monday will pause at 3 p.m. (local time) total by an active manager. for a moment of silence. THIS DATE IN GIANTS HISTORY MEMORIAL DAY: For games on Memorial Day, MLB clubs will wear special caps and jerseys... May 24, 1980: The Giants edged all of MLB’s net proceeds from the sale of those caps and jerseys will be donated to the the Pirates, 10-9, in 15 innings...Jack Welcome Back Veterans program, which provides grants to university hospitals throughout Clark went 4-for-8 with a pair of home the country to treat veterans suffering from PTSD and traumatic brain injury...MLB has runs and three RBI and Jim Wohlford committed $30 million to Welcome Back Veterans. entered the game in the 6th inning and collected four hits in six at-bats. World Champions (8): 1905, 1921, 1922, 1933, 1954, 2010, 2012, 2014 NL Pennants (21): 1904, 1905, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1917, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1933, 1936, 1937, 1951, 1954, 1962, 1989, 2002, 2010, 2012, 2014 NL West Titles (8): 1971, 1987, 1989, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2010, 2012 GIANTS STARTING PITCHER PAGE 2 HUDSON'S 2015 DAY-BY-DAY #17 RHP Tim Hudson DATE OPP DEC SC IP H R ER BB SO HR #P EXIT 4/9 @SD -- W, 1-0(12) 6.1 5 0 0 5 1 0 93 0-0 6-1, 174, July 14, 1975 (39) 4/14 COL L L, 1-4 7.0 8 3 3 0 4 0 100 0-3 2-3 Record, 4.01 ERA 4/19 ARI L L, 1-5 5.0 6 5 5 2 6 1 82 1-5 4/25 @COL -- W, 5-4(11) 7.0 8 3 3 0 2 2 95 4-3 5/2 LAA W W, 5-4 8.0 2 3 3 2 3 2 96 5-2 • Four-time All-Star (2000, 2004, 2010 and 2014) is slated to 5/7 MIA L L, 2-7 6.2 15 6 6 0 3 1 98 0-6 make his eighth start of the 2015 season.