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Giants blank Rockies, 4-0.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
Byline: Ron Bergman
SAN FRANCISCO _ Nothing like a visit from those hot-house Colorado flowers to make a baseball club feel good again.
The San Francisco Giants took care of the delicate Rockies of Denver, winning 4-0 Sunday at Pacific Bell Park and what looked so bleak one week ago seems just fine now.
"They don't like playing here," said Giants first baseman J.T. Snow. "It's evident by their road record. Pac Bell has a way of bringing you back to earth. This place is probably at the bottom of the list as far as where hitters want to play.
"You can tell it by their body language. They hit a ball real good and it's just a flyball to an outfielder."
The Rockies own the worst road record in baseball _ 6-22. They've lost six road games in a row and 18 of their past 20 away from the from the friendly confines of Coors Field, where the playing surface is vast and the mile-high air is thin. And where the Rockies enjoy the best home record in the majors, a tidy 21-8.
The efficiently achieved sixth victory in a row, five at home, pushed the Giants 4{ games ahead of the second-place Los Angeles Dodgers in the N.L. West. Leap back a Monday and Giants fans were gnashing teeth and rending clothes because a seven-game lead had shrunk to zero after Kirk Reuter and the bullpen blew a five-run lead on the way to losing 12-7 to the Rockies at Coors Field.
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