DENVER—Brenton Doyle broke a ninth-inning tie with a sacrifice fly, enabling the Colorado Rockies to rebound from a tough loss the night before and beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 7–6 on Wednesday, June 19.
Doyle’s fly ball to center field scored Jake Cave from third base, giving Colorado the victory some 24 hours after the Rockies blew a five-run, ninth-inning lead in an 11–9 loss.
“I was trying to get a ball up in the zone to allow me to drive the ball somewhere in the air and deep enough to score Jake,” Doyle said.
Cave and Elhehuris Montero led off the ninth with singles off Yohan Ramirez (0–3), and rookie Adael Amador, who had two hits, reached on a fielder’s choice.
Tuesday night’s loss came when the Dodgers’ Teoscar Hernandez hit a go-ahead, three-run home run with two outs after first-base umpire Lance Barksdale ruled the slugger had checked his swing on what would have been a game-ending strike three.
Cave, who was animated as he yelled at Barksdale from right field, disputing that call, said Wednesday’s win had more meaning.
“Baseball is kind of poetic, and this is a little glimpse of that,” Cave said. “With some drama happening late [Tuesday] night, to be in the ninth inning, tie ballgame, couple of runners on and no outs, I get the chance to score the winning run.”
Michael Toglia homered and tripled, and Jalen Beeks (3–3) pitched an inning of relief to help Colorado snap a four-game losing streak.
Shohei Ohtani doubled, singled, and drove in three runs for Los Angeles. Freddie Freeman also had two hits for the Dodgers.
Los Angeles’ Bobby Miller made his first start since April 10 after spending more than two months on the injured list because of inflammation in his right shoulder.
After Toglia hit a three-run homer off Miller in the first inning, the Dodgers took a 4–3 lead in the second on Ohtani’s three-run double and Freeman’s RBI single.
“The adrenaline was pretty high in the first inning. Got a couple of quick outs and then a two-out walk,” Miller said. “[Toglia], I missed a fastball down the middle. I’d like to think if I throw it in a different spot, I’d only let up two runs.”
Jason Heyward, who hit a grand slam to start Los Angeles’ seven-run ninth inning Tuesday night, doubled home two runs in the fifth off Rockies starter Ryan Feltner.
Miller went 6 1/3 innings–his longest outing this year–but was denied the victory when Colorado scored twice in the seventh.
Trainer’s Room
Dodgers: Placed right-hander Walker Buehler on the 15-day injured list because of inflammation in his right hip. Manager Dave Roberts said Buehler has been bothered by the hip for a few starts, and then was hit by a comebacker Tuesday night.
