West bracket: 1973 Giants defeat 2009 Rockies in five games

Game One: Giants 9, Rockies 2
WP: Bryant (2-4)
LP: Jimenez (1-3)
HR: McCovey (4), Spilboughs (2), Kingman (5)

Game Two: Giants 11, Rockies 7
WP: Bradley (4-1)
LP: Cook (2-1)
HR: Spilboughs (3), Iannetta (5), Hawpe (4)

Game Three: Giants 10, Rockies 3
WP: Barr (4-1)
LP: de la Rosa (3-1)
HR: Barmes (5), Kingman (6), Fuentes (2)

Game Four: Rockies 5, Giants 0
WP: Marquis (4-2)
LP: Marichal (3-1)
HR: Stewart (3), C Gonzalez (2)

Game Five: Giants 6, Rockies 5
WP: Bryant (3-4)
LP: Jimenez (1-4)
Save: Moffitt (4)
HR: McCovey 2 (6), Tulowitzki (3), Stewart (4), Atkins (3)

The Giants averaged more than seven runs a game in this series -- and that includes a shutout. In their wins, they scored nine runs a game.

Game One's final margin was deceptive. Ubaldo Jimenez and Ron Bryant dueled through six innings in Coors Field, with the Giants holding a 2-0 lead when Jimenez departed for a pinch-hitter. The visitors promptly jumped on reliever Jason Hammel for two runs in the seventh, and knocked Rafael Betancourt and Joe Beimel around for five runs in the ninth, including a three-run pinch-hit homer by Dave Kingman. Willie McCovey. Chris Speier and Tito Fuentes each had two RBIs for the Giants.

Starters Tom Bradley and Aaron Cook did not fare so well in the second game. Cook was driven from the game in the third inning, having allowed six runs on seven hits and two walks. Bradley also gave up six runs, but he go through 5.1 innings in the process. The Rockies had seven straight hitters reach base in their four-run sixth inning: three walks, three singles and a hit batsman. 

The Rockies kept on scoring after the series moved to Candlestick Park for Game Three. Fuentes clubbed a three-run homer off Jorge de la Rosa in the first to cap a five-run inning, and Kingman belted another three-run homer in the second. Bobby Bonds had four hits and three runs. Jim Barr gave up two runs on six hits in eight innings for the win.

Jason Marquis stopped the Giants cold in Game Four with a two-hit shutout. Marquis at one point retired 16 straight hitters, and he allowed only a ninth-inning walk after Bonds singled in the third inning. The complete game was appreciated by the bedraggled Colorado bullpen. Carlos Gonzalez and Ian Stewart each homered off Juan Marichal.

The Giants resumed hitting in Game Five. McCovey and Gary Matthews hit back-to-back homers in the first inning off Jimenez, and McCovey hit a second two-run shot in the fifth. The Rockies hit three homers of their own off Bryant. The Giants bullen pulled two escape acts to seal the game and series. Don McMahon entered for the eighth inning with 6-5 lead and immediately allowed a single and double. He then struck out Dexter Fowler, got Clint Barmes to tap back to the mount and got Ian Stewart on a dribbler to the catcher. McMahon opened the ninth by allowing a double and hit batter. Randy Moffitt relieved to strike out Ryan Spilboughs and get Yorbit Torrealba and Seth Smith to fly out, with a walk after the first two outs.

Player availability: Plenty of rest for the pitchers, no injuries.\

Projected rotation: Bryant-Barr-Bradley-Marichal-(Bryant)-(Barr)-(Bradley)