Turning point: Trailing 6-1 in the fourth, the Rockies erupted for seven runs in the sixth and added four more in the seventh to build a 14-6 lead. The rally in the sixth saw the Rockies send 11 batters to the plate in a rally and bang out seven hits, including two triples and two homers. Ian Stewart tied the game at 6 with a three-run homer. Pinch hitter Seth Smith tripled home the go-ahead run, and after a run-scoring triple by Dexter Fowler, who scored on a wild pitch, Todd Helton homered for the final run of the inning.

At the plate: The seven-run sixth was the Rockies second-biggest inning of the season and their biggest at home this year. They scored nine runs in the seventh inning at St. Louis on June 5. The Rockies batted around in the sixth and seventh. Prior to this game, they had batted around in an inning once since the All-Star break _ a four-run second inning against the Cubs on Aug. 10. …Fowler tripled and walked on his first two plate appearances, giving him a streak of reaching base in seven consecutive plate appearances before hitting a foul pop up in the fifth. He tripled and walked on his final two trips to the plate and has reached base safely in nine of his past 10 plate appearances. He’s the first Rockies player to hit two triples in a game since Helton did it June 5, 2007, against Houston….Stewart broke an 0-for-15 slide with a single in the second and homered for the first time since Aug. 2 at Cincinnati. He has a team-leading four three-run homers this season. …
The Giants hit five home runs, their most in a game since they hit six on Aug. 7, 2006.

On the mound: Jorge De La Rosa toiled for six innings but got the win to improve to 12-8. He gave up eight hits, including two homers, and six runs and threw two wild pitches. He gave up two-run homer to Nate Schierholtz to cap a three-run second and a two-run homer to Ryan Garko with two out in the third. Nonetheless, De La Rosa ran his lifetime record against the Giants to 5-0, having won his past five starts against them. Before Saturday, he had never won a game when allowing more than four runs. ….After Franklin Morales retired the side in order in the seventh, Matt Daley allowed three runs and was unable to get through the eighth, giving up a leadoff double to Pablo Sandoval and with one out, back-to-back homers to Garko and Aaron Rowand. Daley, who last pitched Sunday at Florida, had allowed one homer in 34 1/3 innings in his previous 35 games. Manager Jim Tracy had to call on Rafael Betancourt to end the inning, which he did by getting a fly out on his first pitch. …Matt Herges, who replaced injured Aaron Cook on the roster Saturday, made his 2009 debut with the Rockies. After pinch hitter Travis Ishikawa led off the ninth and reached base on second baseman Clint Barmes’ error, Herges gave up a one-out homer to Sandoval and was replaced by closer Huston Street, who struck out the two batters he faced in a non-save situation.

Numbers game: 98 at-bats without a home run for Helton, a drought he ended with his 12th homer of the season in the sixth. It was Helton’s first home run since July 22 when he homered against Arizona left-hander Scott Schoeneweis on his final at-bat in the eighth.