Rookie Elehuris Montero homered twice and drove in five runs to support the solid pitching of José Ureña, and the Colorado Rockies beat the San Francisco Giants 7-4 on Friday night to snap a five-game losing streak.
Connor Joe also homered and Wynton Bernard and José Iglesias hit successive doubles to ignite a four-run fifth inning by Colorado.
Ureña (2-4, 4.71 ERA) , went 6 2/3 innings and allowed three hits, two of them to Joc Pederson. After singling in the first, Pederson connected for a solo shot with two outs in the top of the sixth.
Alex Wood (8-10, 4.54ERA) allowed seven hits and seven runs in 4 2/3 innings, including three homers by Colorado, which snapped a five-game homerless drought.
Montero, who was among the prospects acquired in a February 2021 trade that sent Nolan Arenado to St. Louis, had a two-run homer in the bottom of the second and a three-run drive in the fifth for his first career multihomer game. Joe connected on a solo shot in the fourth.
Lucas Gilbreath relieved Ureña with two on and two outs in the seventh and allowed a two run single to Austin Slater singled to before fanning Pederson to end the inning.
Daniel Bard got three outs for his 25th save, striking out the side after issuing a leadoff walk to Brandon Crawford.
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