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San Francisco Giants: Patrick Bailey gets his first taste of Coors Field

Bailey, San Francisco’s 24-year-old rookie catcher who has been getting playing time with Joey Bart on the injured list with a right groin strain, got his first at-bats at Coors Field and made them count in the series opener on Tuesday night.

He opened the series with a flourish, going 3-for-3 with two doubles, one triple and one RBI, marking his first career triple and first career game with at least three extra-base hits. It continued a hot stretch at the plate for Bailey, who became the first Giants’ player since Joe Strain in 1979 to have at least three games of three or more hits through the first 15 games of his career, and also the first catcher in Giants history to do so.

“I was out of breath a lot of the game, a lot of the time on the bases, but they have those cool little oxygen things, so that was fun. That was the first time I’ve ever used them and they were good,” Bailey said of his running at altitude.

Bailey also got his first taste of catching at a mile high, working with his pitchers who were adjusting to the different ways the baseball spins at altitude.

“The most interesting thing is just the different shapes, the guys’ sliders and sinkers aren’t doing as much here, so it’s navigating through that,” Bailey said. “You have a different game plan than you do at Oracle or just a normal stadium.”