Surging Giants finish off 4-game sweep of RockiesSurging Giants finish off 4-game sweep of Rockies

Surging Giants finish off 4-game sweep of Rockies 32 minutes ago Maria Guardado @mi_guardado Share share-square-203322 SAN FRANCISCO — Tuesday’s 3 p.m. PT Trade Deadline just got a whole lot more interesting for the Giants. With a 5-4 win over the last-place Rockies in Sunday afternoon’s series finale at Oracle Park, the Giants finished off
Surging Giants finish off 4-game sweep of RockiesSurging Giants finish off 4-game sweep of Rockies

Surging Giants finish off 4-game sweep of Rockies

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SAN FRANCISCO — Tuesday’s 3 p.m. PT Trade Deadline just got a whole lot more interesting for the Giants.

With a 5-4 win over the last-place Rockies in Sunday afternoon’s series finale at Oracle Park, the Giants finished off their first four-game sweep since September 2022 (also against Colorado) and pulled within 3 1/2 games of the final National League Wild Card spot.

The Giants (53-55) remain two games below .500, but with a surging starting rotation and a soft schedule ahead — 18 of the their next 23 games will come against teams with losing records — there’s a case to be made that they should hold on to their biggest trade chips and try to make a run down the stretch.

It will make for a fascinating quandary for president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi, who will now have to decide whether the Giants’ statement weekend against the lowly Rockies is sustainable or a mere mirage. If it’s the latter, San Francisco could be compelled to move veterans like Blake Snell, Michael Conforto, Mike Yastrzemski, LaMonte Wade Jr. or Taylor Rogers to acquire a prospect haul and clear more paths for youngsters like Hayden Birdsong, Marco Luciano and Luis Matos to earn regular playing time in the second half.

Alex Cobb, a pending free agent who has also drawn some trade buzz, said his preference would be to stay put and expressed confidence that the Giants still have a chance to get on a roll now that their rotation is finally starting to come together.

Snell has been nearly unhittable in four starts since returning from the injured list (0.75 ERA), Robbie Ray lived up to the hype in his Giants debut last week and Cobb could join the mix within the next week if he gets over a right index finger blister that curtailed his last rehab start with Single-A San Jose on Friday.

“I know it’s easy from the outside to write us off, but I just don’t feel like anybody in this clubhouse feels that,” Cobb said. “We just won [four] straight and are [3] 1/2 out of the Wild Card right now. You can see what the potential is of the rotation. It takes so long to form a chemistry in the clubhouse to get to where we’re hopefully, potentially hitting our stride. … We haven’t had that yet. When we do, I see us being right in the mix of it at the end of the year. I think everybody does.”

The Giants have been maddeningly inconsistent on the offensive end, but a few of their hitters have started to pick it up as of late, including Jorge Soler and Matt Chapman, who delivered three hits apiece on Sunday. San Francisco also got a boost from Casey Schmitt, who opened the scoring with a first-inning solo shot, and newcomer Derek Hill, who extended the club’s lead to 2-0 with an RBI triple in the second.

With their pitching reinforcements in tow, the Giants were able to move Jordan Hicks back to the bullpen earlier than expected. Hicks had been scheduled to make possibly his last start on Sunday, but the Giants decided to scratch him and run a bullpen game instead, with Erik Miller getting his 10th opening assignment of the season.

Miller, Randy Rodríguez and Rogers combined to allow only one run over five innings before Hicks came on for his first relief appearance of the year in the sixth. The 27-year-old right-hander gave up two runs over two frames, causing his ERA to rise to 4.11 over a career-high 100 2/3 innings.

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