Colorado Rockies @ San Francisco Giants (game 1)

I'd visited the Dugout Store at AT&T Park to buy my tickets for the three game series against the Rockies, as it's much cheaper to buy them in person at the park - no "convenience fees" or "order fees" adding tens of dollars to the prices - I saved around $100 in total!

Today, the Giants had Chris Stratton starting, who I saw pitch against Milwaukee without much luck last week.  The Rockies had swept the Giants in their series at Coors Field a week or so ago, so it appeared the chance of us breaking our historic losing streak appeared bleak.

After the off day on Thursday, it was time to go down for a 7.05pm start, and the game proceeded at great speed.

The game got off to a good start, with several hits in the 2nd inning, Austin Slater driving in 2 runs with a single - 2 runs that were to prove to be the only runs of the entire game.

Bruce Bochy had had his closer warming up during the 8th inning, but Stratton received a huge cheer when he came out to pitch the 9th inning.

He received even more cheers when he recorded the final out, without having suffered any mishap or base runners.

The game had lasted just over 2 and a quarter hours in total, admittedly helped by there not being a bottom of the 9th.

So this finishes the losing streak at 11 in an extraordinary way: a 2-hit complete game shutout.