DENVER — Alex Wood tossed his glove in the air as Brian Serven’s ground ball snuck through the middle of the infield for a second-inning single. When Connor Joe’s home run left the yard in the fourth, Wood lifted his head and took a deep sigh, before returning to the mound and kicking the rubber.
Yet, as Elehuris Montero rounded the bases in the fifth, after slugging his second homer of the night, all the emotion Wood could muster was to pull his cap and hang his head as he summoned for another baseball from home plate umpire Chris Conroy.
Coors Field has been Wood’s personal house of horrors for his entire career, and Friday night’s series opener was no exception. Wood allowed more runs (seven) on more home runs (three) than any start this season as the Giants stumbled to their third straight loss, 7-4, to the Rockies and fell back under .500 (59-60).
