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(Sports Network) - Owners of the best record in baseball, the Colorado Rockies welcome the National League West rival San Francisco Giants to town tonight for the first of three straight games at Coors Field. The Rockies have won 12 of 15 to begin the season and have already surpassed their win total from April of last year, when they won just 11 games. Colorado had a seven-game win streak end with a loss on Saturday, but took yesterdays rubber match of a three-game set with Chicago by a 9-5 margin thanks to a four-run eighth inning. All four runs came with two outs and Dexter Fowler got things started with a two-run double. Jonathan Herrera and Carlos Gonzalez followed with RBI singles and Gonzalez ended 4-for-5 with a pair of runs batted in. Rafael Betancourt recorded the final two outs of the eighth for the win. Its a nice start Ill tell you that. The fashion that weve done it makes it more impressive. Todays game is obviously what weve been doing all year. Staying in games and winning them late, said Colorado shortstop Troy Tulowitzki. Colorado hands the ball tonight to Esmil Rogers, who has won both of his starts this year while pitching to a 2.77 earned run average. After besting the Pirates on April 7 with 7 1/3 innings of one-run ball, working around four hits and a walk, the right-hander needed to work a little harder next time out. Rogers gave up three runs on seven hits and four walks over 5 2/3 innings of a 5-4 win at the Mets on Wednesday. The 25-year-old is 0-1 with a 7.07 ERA in four career games versus the Giants, including two starts, giving up 11 earned runs over 14 innings. Rogers draws some tough competition tonight in Giants ace Tim Lincecum, who will be looking to rebound tonight after a no-decision last time out. The right-hander split his first two starts before yielding three runs on six hits and a walk over 5 1/3 innings versus the Dodgers on Tuesday. The 26-year-old rightys ERA jumped from 0.64 to 1.86 and he went 2-2 with a 2.93 ERA in four starts against Colorado last year. The Giants will also be looking to get on track after having a four-game win streak snapped in Sundays 6-5 setback to the Diamondbacks in 12 innings. Buster Posey and Pablo Sandoval hit back-to-back home runs to highlight a four-run sixth inning for the Giants, while starter Madison Bumgarner gave up four runs over 6 2/3 innings of a no-decision. We won our last three series. Thats all you really want to do, said Aubrey Huff, who had a solo homer. Its tough to sweep, especially on the road. The Giants and Rockies are meeting for the first time since splitting 18 matchups a season ago. cheap jerseys online . Vick broke his two lower ribs on the second play of the Eagles 21-17 loss to Arizona on Sunday. He didnt tell anyone he was hurt and played through the pain. Vince Young likely would start if Vick cant go. 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"It was good motivation and forced me to push myself to keep going," said Pageau. "They liked my game and I didnt want to disappoint them after that." The third period started out with the Senators leading 2-1, but after Pageaus second goal of the night and a Kyle Turris marker made it 4-1, emotions overflowed and a line brawl broke out at centre ice. Turris goal, his first of the series, seven minutes in put the game out of reach and on the ensuing faceoff five different fights broke out. "I thought we handled ourselves well under the circumstances and the duress we were put under and we defended ourselves," said Ottawa coach Paul MacLean. The Senators ended up with the man advantage after the brawl and Jakob Silfverberg scored on the power play as he beat Habs goalie Carey Price up high to make it 5-1 with over 12 minutes remaining. More penalties were taken and at one point Ottawa was left with just five players on the bench, while Montreal had six. Ottawas veteran forward Daniel Alfredsson finished the game playing defence. A total of 236 penalty minutes was handed out, with 129 to Montreal and 107 to Ottawa, setting a new record. After the game Montreal coach Michel Therien took exception with MacLean calling a timeout with 17 seconds remaining. In Theriens opinion MacLean was trying to embarrass and humiliate the Canadiens. "As far as Im concerned that was classless," said Therien. With so few players on his bench and things already out of hand MacLean felt he had no other option than to call a timeout to get his message to his players. "I didnt want anyone to get hurt, it was already getting dumb enough as it was," said MacLean. "I have two important players on my team and I still have games to play. Were not giving them a freebie. Theres already enough of that." MacLean went on to say that he was protecting his players and he would do it again. This is the second time Therien has taken issue with MacLean. "I dont like when a coach is making comments," said Therien. "I dont like a coach when trying to humiliate our team. I dont like that." MacLean wasnt overly impressed by the actions of the Canadiens and is hopeful the league will review certain aspects of the game including Josh Gorges intentionally shooting the puck at Turris at the end of the game. Pageau completed the hat trick, just the second player in Senators history to score a hat trick in the playoffs after Alfredsson did it in 1998, with less than two minutes remaining in regulation. Less than a month ago Pageau was playing in the AHL, but his strong play hass earned him the confidence of MacLean.dddddddddddd "It was a great night for the kid," said MacLean. "Hes come in and played very, very well for us. Were really pleased for him, hes been a good player." "He played a great game," added Alfredsson. "He had some great shots, picked the corners and it was fun for him." Alfredsson scored Ottawas opening goal and Craig Anderson stopped 33 shots. Price faced 30 shots in a game he will want to forget. Rene Bourque scored the lone goal for the Canadiens at 14:34 of the first. Captain Brian Gionta and Max Pacioretty, who both missed Game 2, were back in the lineup for the Canadiens. Pageau, with his first career playoff goal, gave the Senators a 2-1 lead early in the second as he slipped between defencemen P.K. Subban and Andrei Markov to beat Price over the shoulder. Pageau is not likely to forget the goal as he was hit in the mouth by Subban on the goal and lost a tooth. Players could be seen looking for the tooth on the ensuing goal celebration. "I might put it under my pillow and see what happens," joked Pageau. Strangely enough a player has lost a tooth in all three games and whichever team ends up toothless has won the game. The Canadiens had a couple of great chances to tie the game in the second, but came up short. Alex Galchenyuk was stopped by Anderson as he came racing in alone, and then with Montreal on the power play, Tomas Plekanec rang a shot off the crossbar. The Canadiens werent pleased with their overall effort and know they need to stick a better game plan looking ahead to Game 4 on Tuesday. "Our problem was we tried to make plays that werent there," said Gorges. "We werent in our structure, we werent in our system and when were not were chaotic. "We knew they were going to come hard, we just didnt play a good fundamental game." A physical first period ended with the teams tied 1-1. The Senators made the most of a 28-second two man advantage as Alfredsson picked up his own rebound at his feet and quickly rifled it past the right of Price. It was the Senators first power-play goal of the series. Montreal tied the game with a power-play goal of its own as Plekanec found Bourque to create a two-on-one. Bourques shot looked harmless enough, but the change of speed seemed to throw Anderson off and he was unable to get over in time and he could only watch as the puck trickled across the goal line. The Senators were forced to play most of the game with just five defencemen as Patrick Wiercioch, making his playoff debut, left the game midway through the first with a lower body injury and never returned. He will be re-evaluated Monday. Notes: The Senators are without C Jason Spezza (back, indefinitely). D Eric Gryba served the second and final game of his suspension. Guillaume Latendresse and Andre Benoit were healthy scratches for the Senators in favour of Cory Conacher and Patrick Wierciocha With Pacioretty and Gionta back in the lineup, Jeff Halpern and Gabriel Dumont were scratched. ' ' '