SAN FRANCISCO -- It's hard to keep Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado down long.
After going 0-for-7 in the first two games at AT&T Park, both one-run Rockies losses, Arenado highlighted the top of the first on Thursday by clubbing his 19th homer of the season off Giants starter Chris Stratton, helping the Rockies to a 9-8 win over San Francisco. The home run put him in a tie with the Nationals' Bryce Harper for the National League lead and was his Major League-leading 10th homer in the first inning this season.
Arenado had homered five times in six games in the Rockies' last homestand before this series began. The hitless first two games were an aberration for Arenado at AT&T Park. The home run, his 10th in 48 career games at the park, increased his lifetime average there to .299 (55-for-184).
With Thursday's homer, he surpassed Troy Tulowitzki (now with the Blue Jays) for the club mark for homers at AT&T Park, which opened in 2000. Tulowitzki hit nine between 2006-15.
Arenado has been the NL leader at third base throughout the 2018 Camping World MLB All-Star Ballot voting -- accessible on computers, tablets and smartphones, through MLB.com and the 30 club sites. Voting runs through Thursday, July 5, at 9:59 p.m. MT (11:59 p.m. ET).