Giants give up a lead late in Coors Field, lose 5-2

I don’t know if this qualifies as a broadcaster’s jinx or if it’s a rare broadcaster’s blessing. Before Gorkys Hernández stepped into the batter’s box to begin the game, Kruk and Kuip were talking about the lead-off homer he hit in the Giants’ 6-1 loss against Kyle Freeland and the Rockies back in June. They talked about how lead-off homers are unlucky, and Kuiper told Hernández if he could, to hit a triple off the top of the wall. Gorkys instead gorked the first pitch over the right field wall for another lead-off homer off Freeland.