The 2020 Rock­ies are like those Hall­mark Christ­mas romance movies.

Pre­dictable.

Except that in the case of the Rock­ies, there is rarely a sweet, hap­py ending.

They fol­lowed a famil­iar script in a 7–2 loss to San Fran­cis­co Wednes­day night at Ora­cle Park. Losers of eight of their last 11 games, the Rock­ies lacked time­ly hits — 1‑for-11 with run­ners in scor­ing posi­tion — and the bullpen once again fal­tered in the big moment.

In this case, right-han­der Yen­cy Almonte left a 1–0 slid­er over the plate and Mauri­cio Dubón ripped it to left for a two-out, three-run homer to give the Giants a 5–2 lead in the fifth.

With five games remain­ing in the 60-game sea­son, the Rock­ies are 24–31 and look­ing at 2021. The Giants, who improved to 28–27, hold the sev­enth of the Nation­al League’s eight play­off spots.

Almonte came in for starter Ryan Castel­lani, who pitched well but strug­gled in the fifth, giv­ing up a lead­off dou­ble to Alex Dick­er­son, a sac­ri­fice fly to Bran­don Craw­ford and two walks.

The Giants piled on in the eighth against right-han­der Tom­my Doyle who was mak­ing his major league debut. Doyle, draft­ed in 2017 out of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Vir­ginia, gave up two runs on four hits, includ­ing a triple by Joey Bart and a dou­ble by Dickerson.

Over his 4 2/3 innings, Castel­lani was charged with four runs on five hits with one strike­out. He walked five and hand­ing out free pass­es has been a prob­lem for the rook­ie right-han­der. He’s walked 26 this sea­son vs. 25 strikeouts.

Col­orado took a 1–0 lead in the third on Trevor Story’s RBI sin­gle up the mid­dle off of Logan Webb, to score Raimel Tapia. Tapia reached on an infield sin­gle and advanced to sec­ond on Kevin Pillar’s grounder to third.

The Giants tied the game 1–1 in the fourth on Evan Longoria’s lead­off homer to cen­ter off Castellani.

But the Rock­ies came right back to take a 2–1 lead in the fifth, and Tapia, as has become the norm, was in the mid­dle of the ral­ly. Gar­rett Hamp­son led off with a sin­gle and scored from first when Tapia’s line dri­ve sailed over the head of Dick­er­son in left field for an RBI dou­ble. Dick­er­son mis­played the ball, but Tapia hit it hard the oppo­site way.

The Rock­ies and Giants con­clude their four-game series Thurs­day afternoon.