Rockies punish Giants with record-setting 13-run inning

For the first time in their 23-year existence, the Colorado Rockies scored 13 runs in an inning Thursday night at AT&T Park, sending a remarkable 17 hitters to the plate in a record-setting fifth-inning onslaught that's sure to become part of franchise lore.

For the three San Francisco Giants pitchers - Matt Cain, Vin Mazzaro, and Derek Law - responsible for that baker's dozen, though, it'll haunt their dreams forever.

If you've got some time to kill, take a look at how that inning - which lasted 36 1/2 minutes and required 58 pitches - went down:

(Courtesy: CBS Sports)

Got all that? Well, here are some more factoids to chew on:

• The Rockies' outburst shattered their previous record of 12 runs in an inning, which was established back on July 30, 2010 in a 17-2 drubbing of the Chicago Cubs at Coors Field.
• Mazzaro, who came on to relieve Cain with one out in the fifth, is now just the third reliever in history to allow nine runs while recording just one out in an outing.
• This marks the second time in the last week that the Giants have surrendered a dozen or more runs in an innings, as San Francisco coughed up 12 runs to the Mets in the third inning of Friday's 13-1 loss at Citi Field.

Understandably, the Rockies had to gloat.