The clouds were creeping in towards Coors Field all afternoon. A foreboding front that threatened but never manifested into a storm as the Colorado Rockies put together a series of returns that didn’t diminish until the 11th: a 2-0 San Francisco lead erased in the 5th, a 6-3 lead razed by an RBI single and 2-run homer in the 8th, a 8-6 lead leveled in the 10th.
It wasn’t until Zach Littell, a base running gaffe and a great tag by Evan Longoria in the 11th that set the San Francisco Giants 9-8 lead in stone.