The Giants got back on track Sunday, courtesy of Alex Wood and an offense that came up with enough hits that mattered for a 5-2 win over the Colorado Rockies at Oracle Park.
Wood improved to 10-3, giving up six hits and two runs in 6 2/3 innings, and got relief help from Dominic Leone, Tyler Rogers and Jake McGee, with McGee picking up his 25th save.
A day after having their six-game winning streak snapped, the Giants improved to 76-42 in taking three of four games from the Rockies, who fell to 52-66 before a crowd of 33,337.
Next up for the Giants is a three-game series against the New York Mets, who are fighting to stay in contention in the N.L. East.
The Giants added two runs worth of breathing room in the seventh for a 5-2 lead, although missing a chance to blow the game wide open as reliever Robert Stephenson retired Brandon Belt (shallow fly to left), Brandon Crawford (strikeout) and Mike Yastrzemski (foul pop to third) with the bases loaded and no one out.
Kris Bryant opened the seventh as a pinch hitter against Ben Bowden and reached base when Connor Joe and Garrett Hampson had a miscommunication on a fly ball to left center. The ball fell to the ground and Joe was charged with the two-base error.
Austin Slater promptly doubled to right to bring home Bryant and after Darin Ruf was hit by a pitch and Tommy LaStella hit a single too solid to bring home a run, Wilmer Flores lined a single to left for the 5-2 lead.
The Rockies chased Wood in the seventh inning, but he still was the pitcher of record for a win thanks to a strike to the plate from LaMonte Wade Jr.
Joe singled with two outs against Dominic Leone for what could have been the tying run, but Wade threw out Elias Dias for the third out and the Giants led 3-2.
Diaz, pinch-hitting earlier in the inning, drove in one run with a seeing-eye ground ball to right field to bring home Garrett Hampson, and pinch hitter Charlie Blackmon chased Wood with an RBI single to bring home Yonathan Daza.
Losing pitcher Jon Gray (7-9) threw four shutout innings before the Giants broke loose for three runs in the fifth inning on a run-scoring single by Curt Casali and a two-run double by LaStella.
Yastrzemski opened the inning with a well-placed ground ball to the left-center side of second base, and then stealing second on a ball in the dirt. Casali was next, and he hit a blooper to the left side that fell in, with Yastrzemski reading the ball perfectly and scoring the first run of the game.
Wood walked to load the bases, and after Wade struck out, LaStella hit a ball off the top of the wall in left that was very nearly a grand slam, bring home the second and third runs of the inning.
Tyler Kinley relieved Gray and stopped the damage with strikeouts of Wilmer Flores and Brandon Belt to end the inning.
