Buster Posey is rounding into form, looking more and more like the 2012 version of the player who won the NL MVP.
Couldn't have picked a better time, too, with the postseason on the horizon.
Posey homered, doubled twice and drove in four runs, rallying the San Francisco Giants past the Colorado Rockies 12-7 on Tuesday night for their seventh win in eight games.
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Outfielder Hunter Pence and catcher Buster Posey can continue a recent thrashing of Colorado pitching on today afternoon when the Giants visit Coors Field for the finale of their series with the host Rockies.
Pence had two hits and a run batted in on Tuesday to run his hit streak to 15 games. He's batting .393 and has driven in 15 runs during the streak, and has also hit in 15 straight games against the Rockies, including a .446 average and five home runs.
Posey, meanwhile, has 26 hits in 12 games -- 13 for extra bases -- and has driven in 18 runs.
"He's on fire right now and looking really good," San Francisco's George Kontos said. "Buster is a guy if something is not going right for him for a week or two or however long it is, he's a guy who's going to come out of it. He's going to get in his groove and do what we're all accustomed to seeing him do."
Posey has a .406 career average at Coors Field.
San Francisco (76-63), the NL wild-card leader, may need another brilliant offensive display with Ryan Vogelsong (8-9, 3.73) taking the mound. He's 2-2 with a 7.50 ERA in four lifetime starts at Coors Field and was hammered for five runs and three homers before being pulled with one out in the second of an 8-2 loss April 21.
Vogelsong, though, enters this meeting 3-1 with a 2.58 ERA in six starts after earning a 13-2 win over Milwaukee on Friday. The right-hander allowed two runs with seven strikeouts in seven innings.
He's been backed with 19 runs over his last two outings after getting an average of 1.81 in the previous eight.
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The Rockies are struggling in nearly every facet during a 2-6 stretch, batting .198 while compiling a 5.59 ERA -- 7.48 from the bullpen.
Drew Stubbs is doing his part, at least at home. The center fielder is hitting .364 at home compared to a .209 on the road, and that trend has continued of late. Stubbs' three hits in this series is one more than his total in 18 at-bats over his previous five games -- all on the road.
Colorado is turning to rookie Christian Bergman (1-2, 5.74), who carried a no-hitter into the fifth inning Friday before allowing a double to Arizona starter Josh Collmenter. The right-hander left with one out in the sixth after allowing one run and two hits with a season-high five walks and did not figure in the decision of a 5-2 loss.
Bergman didn't get a decision in his only meeting with the Giants on June 14, allowing three runs -- all on homers by Posey and Pence -- in six innings of a 5-4 win
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