As expected, Thursday night's game between the Rockies and the Giants contained a dominant pitching performance. Also as expected, it contained a good piece of hitting from a left-handed pitcher.
The unexpected part is that both of those things came from Chris Rusin, who saved the bullpen, shut down the Giants in relief of the re-injured Jon Gray, and even added a single in the top of the seventh for good measure. And Rusin wasn’t the only one to swing the bat well; after a rough showing in the Padres series, Rockies hitters finally showed some life, scoring three runs on seven hits en route to a 3-1 victory to open their six-game west coast road trip.