DENVER -- The Giants ascended when Gorkys Hernandez took a dive Wednesday night.
Hernandez's lunging catch of Carlos Gonzalez's fifth-inning line drive stranded two runners and helped the Giants seal their 7-4 triumph over the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. It preserved a 6-4 edge and everything else that preceded the play, which was a comeback from an immediate 3-0 deficit created by Nolan Arenado's first-inning home run. And it gave purpose to the crucial later innings, when relievers Reyes Moronta, Tony Watson, Sam Dyson and Hunter Strickland blanked Colorado for an inning apiece.