Colorado @ San Francisco preview

Last Meeting ( Aug 4, 2019 ) San Francisco 2, Colorado 6

The Bruce Bochy farewell tour nears the finish line as the San Francisco Giants begin their season-ending six-game homestand Tuesday with the first of three against the Colorado Rockies. Bochy, who will retire after Sunday's game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, has split 2,100 regular-season games as San Francisco manager but World Series titles in 2010, 2012 and 2014 cemented his status as one of the most successful skippers in history.

Bochy, who was 951-975 in 12 seasons with San Diego before spending the last 13 with the Giants, is one of 11 managers in history to win 2,000 games - the first 10 are in the Hall of Fame - and he'll move past Sparky Anderson and into seventh all-time in games with 4,032. San Francisco (75-81) returns home after a 3-3 trip made them 42-39 on the road - an 11-game improvement from last season. Nolan Arenado is one home run shy of the career-high 42 he hit in 2015 and his .316 batting average would mark the best of his career for Colorado (67-89), which was 46-46 on July 14. Madison Bumgarner takes the ball for the Giants on Tuesday armed with a four-start winless streak (0-1) and opposes Jeff Hoffman, who has pitched at least five innings in each of his four starts since returning from Triple-A Albuquerque.

TV: 9:45 p.m. ET, AT&T SportsNet Rocky Mountain (Colorado), NBCS Bay Area (San Francisco)

PITCHING MATCHUP: Rockies RH Jeff Hoffman (2-6, 6.71 ERA) vs. Giants LH Madison Bumgarner (9-9, 3.86)

Hoffman received a no-decision after allowing two runs and five hits (two homers) in 5 1/3 innings of Colorado's 7-4 loss to the New York Mets on Wednesday. The 26-year-old New Yorker won his previous start despite yielding four runs, four hits and six walks in 5 1/3 frames of a 10-8 victory over San Diego on Sept. 13. Hoffman has a 4.02 ERA in four games (two starts) versus San Francisco, but hasn't faced it since 2017.

Bumgarner permitted five runs and nine hits with seven strikeouts in five innings of a 5-4 loss at Boston on Thursday. The 30-year-old North Carolina native allowed two runs across seven innings in each of his previous two outings in San Francisco's home losses to a pair of last-place clubs in Miami and Pittsburgh. Trevor Story is 7-for-32 with four home runs and 10 strikeouts versus Bumgarner, who is 16-8 with a 3.21 ERA in 34 starts against Colorado - 3-0, 4.50 in four turns this season.

WALK-OFFS

1. Giants 3B Evan Longoria needs one home run to join OF Kevin Pillar (21) and OF Mike Yastrzemski (20) and give the club three players with 20 or more for the first time since Barry Bonds (26), Ray Durham (26), Moises Alou (22) and Pedro Feliz (22) in 2006.

2. Arenado is hitting .356 in 59 September at-bats with seven home runs, 14 RBIs, nine runs and a .465 on-base percentage.

3. San Francisco leads the season series 10-6 and has won four of seven meetings at Oracle Park.

PREDICTION: Giants 6, Rockies 5