{"id":1311860,"date":"2019-06-26T22:28:01","date_gmt":"2019-06-27T04:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/dahl-hits-grand-slam-drives-in-5-as-rockies-beat-giants\/"},"modified":"2019-06-26T22:28:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-27T04:28:01","slug":"dahl-hits-grand-slam-drives-in-5-as-rockies-beat-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/dahl-hits-grand-slam-drives-in-5-as-rockies-beat-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Dahl hits grand slam, drives in 5 as Rockies beat Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Colorado Rockies’ David Dahl, right, is congratulated by third base coach Stu Cole (39) after hitting a grand slam off San Francisco Giants’ Jeff Samardzija in the fourth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in San Francisco. (AP Photo\/Ben Margot)<\/strong>
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SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 David Dahl has squared up so many baseballs hard this season that went off the wall just short of clearing the fences.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s not taking anything for granted now, especially when it comes to the Colorado center fielder\u2019s chances of making his first All-Star team.<\/p>\n

Dahl hit a go-ahead grand slam in the third and drove in a career-high five runs, leading the Rockies past the San Francisco Giants 6-3 on Wednesday for a winning series.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy biggest thing is if you start thinking about it and then we\u2019ve still got what 10-something games left (before the All-Star break) and then you struggle and you\u2019re thinking about it, it kind of does no good and it\u2019s like the first half goes to waste,\u201d Dahl said.<\/p>\n

He connected off Jeff Samardzija for his second career grand slam, with the other coming last Sept. 10 against Arizona. It marked the first grand slam ever hit by a Rockies player in San Francisco.<\/p>\n

Dahl added an RBI single in the seventh. He had a two-run shot in the series opener. The only other Rockies player to drive in five runs at San Francisco was DJ LeMahieu on June 28 last year.<\/p>\n

\u201cDavid\u2019s talented,\u201d manager Bud Black said. \u201cI think this year he\u2019s really solidifying himself as a good big league player and days like today validate what you\u2019re seeing from David. I think it\u2019s great. I know that his motivation and his desire is to be the best player he can be, and he\u2019s working hard and what I like is he\u2019s doing it on both sides. He\u2019s doing it on defense, he\u2019s doing it on the bases, he\u2019s doing it at the plate.\u201d<\/p>\n

The big swing in the series finale backed German Marquez (8-3), who immediately surrendered Pablo Sandoval\u2019s homer the next inning but won his second straight decision.<\/p>\n

Marquez, who tossed a one-hitter at San Francisco on April 14, allowed three runs and seven hits, struck out two and walked two over five innings. Wade Davis finished for his 11th save in 13 opportunities.<\/p>\n

Colorado loaded the bases in the third after Tony Wolters drew a leadoff walk, Marquez advanced him with a sacrifice, Garrett Hampson singled then Charlie Blackmon walked to bring up Dahl.<\/p>\n

Wolters added a sacrifice fly in the fourth for a key insurance run.<\/p>\n

Samardzija (4-7), who pitched seven scoreless innings at home against the Rockies in April, was tagged for five runs and three hits in five innings.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou give up a two-run homer and we\u2019re fine there and the game\u2019s still going our way, but when it\u2019s four it\u2019s unfortunate,\u201d Samardzija said.<\/p>\n

He struck out six after lefties Drew Pomeranz and Madison Bumgarner each struck out 11 batters the previous two games.<\/p>\n

The Giants went ahead in the bottom of the first \u2014 just San Francisco\u2019s 20th and 21st runs in the initial inning all year \u2014 on Sandoval\u2019s double. It came after Mike Yastrzemski reached on an error by Marquez when the pitcher missed the catch covering first base.<\/p>\n

San Francisco hadn\u2019t scored more than one run in the first inning since June 1 against the Orioles.<\/p>\n

SPECIAL VISITOR<\/p>\n

Broncos coach and former 49ers defensive coordinator Vic Fangio spent some time in the Rockies clubhouse before the series finale to visit with Black, his staff and the players.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve heard his name over the years as a great coach, a great defensive mind,\u201d Black said. \u201cSo it was fun for us this morning to get to know him and have him around and meet the guys, sort of blend football and baseball. The Broncos were in a couple weeks ago, a lot of their players.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Colorado Rockies’ David Dahl, right, is congratulated by third base coach Stu Cole (39) after hitting a grand slam off San Francisco Giants’ Jeff Samardzija in the fourth inning of a baseball game Wednesday, June 26, 2019, in San Francisco. (AP Photo\/Ben Margot)AP | AP SAN FRANCISCO \u2014 David Dahl has squared up so many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1311860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 16:56:26","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311860","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1311860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1311860\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1311860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1311860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1311860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}