SF Giants Gameday: Lessons from should have been a signature win

The San Francisco Giants should have had a marquee win on Thursday at Coors Field. One of their promising young talents, Mauricio Dubón, made a leaping catch at the wall in center field and hit a go-ahead three-run home run to push the Giants ahead 3-1 in the seventh inning. A pitcher that Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi acquired for nothing, Tyler Anderson, threw five shutout innings against a Rockies team that gave up on him last winter. The Giants had a chance to show their inexperienced bullpen had the poise and talent to finish off the Rockies and earn a series split, but another seventh-inning implosion doomed a San Francisco club that's now 6-8 on the season. [related_articles location="left" show_article_date="false" article_type="automatic-primary-section"] Dubón's home run celebration in which he dropped his bat and shouted toward the Giants' dugout should have become a the game's defining highlight and an example of the joy, energy and intensity young players looking to prove themselves bring to the table. Instead it was a secondary highlight to Rockies first baseman Daniel Murphy's celebration of a home run off Giants reliever Rico Garcia as Murphy glared at Dubón out in center field as he circled the basepaths. A potential 3-1 win ended up as a 6-4 loss as the Giants and manager Gabe Kapler continue to face questions as to whether their bullpen is competent enough to navigate through a daunting schedule. A four-game set at Coors Field was theoretically the easiest part of a 10-game road trip that includes series against the Dodgers and Astros, but the Giants are now three games under .500 on the trip and trying to keep their season from unraveling.