In a typical Coors Field baseball game, the Colorado Rockies held on to beat the San Francisco Giants. This one all came down to a bottom of the fifth that had everything go the Rockies way.
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Matt Cain pitched a great game up to that point, having given up only a fluke single to the pitcher Jorge De La Rosa in the third. Giant-killer Gerardo Parra homered to lead off the fifth, and then the wheels came off. Cain was still throwing the ball well, and it wasn’t like he was clearly hittable like Jake Peavy was yesterday.