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Bumgarner takes on Rockies

Jun 28, 2015 - 2:11 PM (SportsNetwork.com) - The San Francisco Giants have lost each of ace Madison Bumgarner's last three starts and he gets the nod Sunday in the finale of a three-game series versus the Colorado Rockies.

Bumgarner is 0-2 in his previous three appearances and did not record a decision in Tuesday's 3-2 setback to San Diego, charged with just two runs and five hits in 7 1/3 innings with 14 strikeouts and one walk.

The 2014 World Series MVP hasn't allowed more than two runs in each of his past three trips to the mound. Bumgarner is 7-4 with a 3.04 ERA in 15 starts and 2-2 in eight home appearances. He has made 20 career starts against the Rockies and owns a 9-6 record to go along with a 3.13 ERA in that span.

Kyle Kendrick will counter Bumgarner on the hill for Colorado and has struggled to a 3-9 mark and a 5.96 ERA in 15 starts.

Kendrick was able to stop a four-game winless drought (0-3) in Tuesday's 10-5 pounding of Arizona, as he lasted six innings and allowed four runs. The veteran right-hander has been tagged for four runs in each of his previous two starts and is only 2-5 in eight road assignments.

In an 11-8 loss to San Francisco on May 22 at Coors Field, Kendrick permitted four runs and five hits over 6 1/3 innings. Kendrick has faced the Giants nine times (6 starts) in his career and is 2-3 with a 4.85 ERA.

The Giants bounced back from Friday's loss with a 7-5 victory on Saturday, as Andrew Susac hit a go-ahead three-run double in the bottom of the seventh inning.

Giants right-hander Tim Lincecum left the game with what the team called a right forearm contusion after being hit in his pitching arm by a line drive off the bat of DJ LeMahieu in the second inning.

"It got me mid-forearm," Lincecum said. "It kind of tightened up and locked up on me immediately ... and right now it just feels like a bruise, but a little stiffer than usual."

The struggling two-time Cy Young Award winner, coming off the shortest outing of his career -- 1 1/3 innings last Sunday against the Dodgers -- gave up three runs in the first inning to Colorado.

Yusmeiro Petit replaced him and pitched through the sixth inning, yielding two runs on three hits and a walk. George Kontos then worked around a single in a scoreless seventh inning for the win, Sergio Romo escaped a walk in the eighth and Santiago Casilla stranded a runner in the ninth to earn his 20th save.

Buster Posey had a two-run double and Matt Duffy stroked a solo homer for the Giants, who bounced back from an 8-6 loss in the series opener on Friday to win for the third time in four games.

Rockies starter Chris Rusin was tagged for five runs -- just two earned -- in 6 1/3 innings as Colorado lost for only the second time in its last seven.

Nolan Arenado extended his hitting streak to 14 games with an RBI double in the loss.

"Good game, we just came up on the short end," said Rockies manager Walt Weiss.

The Rockies swept a three-game set in San Francisco from April 13-15 and are 7-4 against the Giants this season.






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