SAN FRANCISCO -- Brandon Crawford delivered the Giants' first walk-off victory of the season, clobbering a 10th-inning leadoff home run Sunday to give San Francisco a 5-4 decision over the Colorado Rockies at AT&T Park.With the score tied at 4, Crawford deposited Rex Brothers' 1-0 pitch into San Francisco Bay for his first career walk-off homer. It also was the 64th "splash hit" by a Giant and Crawford's first. 
Continuing to show signs of emerging from a season-long slump, Pablo Sandoval recorded his first multiple-hit game of the year, grounding a two-out single in the first inning before yanking a tremendous drive to right field leading off the sixth. Sandoval's drive would have been a splash hit, but the ball struck a flagpole and caromed into the seats.One inning earlier, the Giants erased a 1-0 deficit with three runs. Rockies starter Tyler Chatwood hit Hunter Pence with a pitch and yielded Michael Morse's single off the left-field wall to set up Crawford's sacrifice fly. After Brandon Hicks singled, he and Morse advanced on a wild pitch. Angel Pagan's two-out single sent them home.Giants starter Tim Hudson yielded home runs to Wilin Rosario in the first inning and Justin Morneau in the seventh. Protecting a 4-2 lead, Hudson couldn't finish the eighth, as Colorado scored twice to pull even. Doubles by Nolan Arenado and DJ LeMahieu trimmed the difference to 4-3, which vanished when pinch-hitter Drew Stubbs grounded an RBI single to left field off reliever Javier Lopez.Chris Haft / MLB.com
Continuing to show signs of emerging from a season-long slump, Pablo Sandoval recorded his first multiple-hit game of the year, grounding a two-out single in the first inning before yanking a tremendous drive to right field leading off the sixth. Sandoval's drive would have been a splash hit, but the ball struck a flagpole and caromed into the seats.One inning earlier, the Giants erased a 1-0 deficit with three runs. Rockies starter Tyler Chatwood hit Hunter Pence with a pitch and yielded Michael Morse's single off the left-field wall to set up Crawford's sacrifice fly. After Brandon Hicks singled, he and Morse advanced on a wild pitch. Angel Pagan's two-out single sent them home.Giants starter Tim Hudson yielded home runs to Wilin Rosario in the first inning and Justin Morneau in the seventh. Protecting a 4-2 lead, Hudson couldn't finish the eighth, as Colorado scored twice to pull even. Doubles by Nolan Arenado and DJ LeMahieu trimmed the difference to 4-3, which vanished when pinch-hitter Drew Stubbs grounded an RBI single to left field off reliever Javier Lopez.Chris Haft / MLB.com
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