DENVER - Even at AT&T Park, this would have been a good night for Trevor Story. In the thin air of Coors Field it was historic.
The Rockies shortstop hit 1,380 feet worth of homers, slugging his team to a 5-3 win over the Giants and a series sweep. The Giants looked to be in for a big offensive night early on, but they ended up scattering nine hits and going down quietly most of the night.
They have lost 18 of their last 20 games at Coors Field and went 1-8 here this season. Here's what you need to know from the final game in Denver in 2018 ...
-- Story hit a first-inning slider so hard that he fell into the dirt as he finished his swing. The ball went an estimated 459 feet, which looked like a popup compared to Story's second blast. In the fourth, Story once again cleared all the seats, hitting a 505-foot homer that landed at the feet of fans who were getting popcorn out at a left field grill. The homer was the longest in the four years Statcast has been tracking them, edging a Giancarlo Stanton bomb by one foot.
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-- For some inexplicable reason, the Giants allowed Andrew Suarez to face Story a third time. He homered on the first pitch he saw - a changeup right down the middle - in the sixth, giving the Rockies a 4-3 lead. It only went 416 feet, though, so there's that.
-- The fastball ticks up at Coors Field, and Ray Black brought the good stuff to strike Story out as he went for a fourth homer. Black hit Story with 100 mph, 100, 99, 100 and 100 in the at-bat.
-- Making his second straight start with Suarez, Aramis Garcia provided some of the offense with a solo shot in the fourth. The blast was Garcia's second. He didn't homer in 38 Triple-A at-bats prior to a promotion.
