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DENVER -- Cristhian Adames reacted too quickly on Joe Nathans first fastball and lined it foul. When he got the same pitch again he was right on it.Adames hit a two-run double in the ninth inning off the veteran reliever to rally the Colorado Rockies past the San Francisco Giants 6-5 on Wednesday night.Nolan Arenado homered to start the three-run rally, and Tom Murphy and David Dahl also went deep for the Rockies, who took two of three from the struggling Giants.It would have been disappointing losing the series but its always nice to win, Arenado said. When you walk off everybodys feeling good.With Colorado trailing 5-3, Arenado led off the ninth with his NL-leading 37th home run off Santiago Casilla. After Murphys one-out single, Josh Osich (1-1) entered and hit pinch-hitter Charlie Blackmon. Nick Hundleys bloop single off Nathan loaded the bases, and Adames lined a double off the wall in right to end it.Adames was mobbed at second base by his teammates and doused with a bucket.I kind of pulled on a two-seamer just trying to get a groundball, trying to do anything I can to keep the ball on the ground, Nathan said. I left it in a bad spot. He put a swing on it and the rest is history.Jordan Lyles (4-4) pitched the ninth to get the win. It was a turnaround from last week when Colorado blew a six-run lead in the last two innings against the Dodgers and lost.Weve had to swallow some tough losses, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. You play close games, tough games, tight games -- sometimes you get your heart broken. Sometimes you celebrate like we did tonight.The Giants hold the first NL wild-card spot by a half game over the St. Louis Cardinals and New York Mets. They are 17-32 since the All-Star break.You got to win games youre supposed to win, Giants manager Bruce Bochy said. Thats two that has gotten away from us here.The Giants built an early lead on homers by Brandon Belt and Gorkys Hernandez, who had two hits each.Hernandez, who turned 29 on Wednesday, doubled ahead of Belts two-run homer in the second and led off the fourth with his first home run since Oct. 2, 2012, with Miami, to make it 4-1.The Rockies crept back into the game with consecutive home runs by Dahl and Murphy in the fourth. Hunter Pence made it a two-run game in the fifth with a double, one of his three hits.The Giants couldnt add on to their lead, or hold it in the ninth.Coming down the stretch we need every opportunity, every win we can get, Nathan said. When we get a chance to in the ninth we need to close those deals off and come away with a W.TRAINERS ROOMRockies: 1B Gerardo Parra left the game following the first inning after suffering a right hamstring strain stretching for a throw from 3B Nolan Arenado. ... Blackmons pinch-hit appearance in the ninth was his first action in five games because of lower back tightness. ... RHP Jason Motte (right shoulder strain) threw 25-30 pitches in a simulated game. ... 1B Mark Reynolds was away from the team for the birth of his son, Declan James, who arrived Tuesday. Reynolds will join the team in San Diego.ARMS RACEBochy took advantage of the expanded rosters by stuffing his bullpen. San Francisco had 14 relievers available Wednesday, and the manager used eight, six in the final two innings.Thats why theyre good, Arenado said. They matchup and they know what theyre doing over there. Got to give him credit but tonight it worked out in our favor.UP NEXTRockies: RHP Jeff Hoffman (0-2, 6.60) goes for his first major league win in his fourth career start when the team opens a four-game series at San Diego on Thursday. Fake Braves Jerseys . 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John Lucas, signed as a mentor for rookie Trey Burke, showed he can score if required, scoring 12 points of his 16 points in the second quarter as Utah built an 18-point lead. DURHAM, N.C. -- Wake Forest has scored a few touchdowns and earned a couple of Atlantic Coast Conference victories under coach Dave Clawson.They just never happened in the same game -- until now.Wake Forest upset Duke 24-14 on Saturday behind three touchdowns from freshman Cade Carney and a big game from hometown favorite Kendall Hinton.Carney rushed for 108 yards while becoming the programs first freshman with a three-TD game since Chris Barclay against Purdue in 2002. He scored on runs of 7, 1 and 55 yards -- the last of which broke a 14-all tie with about 4 minutes left in the third quarter.It added up to a big step forward for the Demon Deacons, even if Clawson wasnt ready yet to pronounce it so.Were 2-0, and now weve got to work hard. The reward for winning a game like this is, the next game becomes more important, Clawson said. Whether this is a turning point in our program, you cant say that now.Wake Forest entered with just seven wins under Clawson. Two of those came against FCS schools and three others were in less-than-inspiring fashion: A 6-3, double-overtime win against Virginia Tech in 2014, a 3-0 win at Boston College last year and last weeks 7-3 victory over Tulane.In this complete effort, the Demon Deacons erased one particularly pesky footnote: They had failed to score a touchdown in either of their prior ACC wins under Clawson.They can thank Carney and Hinton, who threw for 133 yards and rushed for 63 more. Mike Weaver made it a 10-point game by kicking a 34-yard field goal with 3:50 to play.The Demon Deacons (2-0, 1-0) entered just 4-20 in league games during the last three years. They outrushed Duke 239-37, and -- after managing just 175 total yards against Tulane -- more than doubled that in this one by rolling up 389 total yards.When a team invests as much as our guys have invested, theyre not going to fall apart after one drive or one game, Clawson said.Redshirt freshman quarterback Daniel Jones had a pair of 1-yard scoring runs on zone-read keepers for the Blue Devils (1-1, 0-1), who were 6 1/2-point favorites. But he was intercepted by Brad Watson deep in Wake Forest territory with 1:54 left, and that all but sealed it.You never know what play in the game is going to make a huge difference, Duke cooach David Cutcliffe said.dddddddddddd This time, we werent consistent enough.THE TAKEAWAYWake Forest: The Demon Deacons not only earned their first win over Duke since 2011, they might have found their quarterback in Hinton -- though Clawson wasnt ready to anoint him as his starter.Hinton had split time with John Wolford since the start of last season and came off the bench in this one, but wound up taking every significant snap in the final 2 1/2 quarters and led all four scoring drives. Hinton was 6 of 11 passing and averaged 5.7 yards on his 11 carries.For me to get up here after a game and make a pronouncement isnt fair to any parties involved, Clawson said.Duke: An offense that was so efficient in the first half against an FCS opponent last week still isnt anything close to a finished product. This could have been a Duke blowout, but in the first half Duke lost a fumble on a deflected backwards pass near midfield, netted no yards after forcing a fumble at the Wake Forest 35 and missed field goals of 30 and 43 yards. The Blue Devils also fumbled away their opening series of the third quarter, turned it over three times -- giving them eight on the season -- and never led in the second half.Our inability to run it early was obvious, Cutcliffe said. Some of our best players are in the backfield. Weve got to put them to work.BAROMETER GAME?Maybe Wake Forest can start checking out hotel rates and flights for the holidays because in eight of the last 10 years, the winner of the Wake Forest-Duke game has gone to a bowl while the loser stayed home. The exceptions: the 2009 and 10 Demon Deacons, who beat the Blue Devils but finished with losing records.UP NEXTWake Forest: The Demon Deacons will look for their first 3-0 start since 2008 when they play host to Delaware of the FCS.Duke heads to Northwestern for the first of two straight out-of-conference trips to the Midwest, with a visit to Notre Dame the following week.---Follow Joedy McCreary at http://twitter.com/joedyap. His work can be found at http://bigstory.ap.org/content/joedy-mccreary---AP college football site: http://collegefootball.ap.org ' ' '