Max Muncy and Dalton Rushing each hit two home runs in the Dodgers' 12-3 victory over the Rockies. The win helped the Dodgers salvage a split in their series against Colorado.
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Max Muncy and Dalton Rushing each hit two home runs
Dodgers won 12-3 against the Rockies
The game helped Dodgers salvage a split in the series
Edwin DĂaz will have elbow surgery, out for three months
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Los Angeles Dodgers' Miguel Rojas, right, congratulates Max Muncy (13) after.
Max Muncy, left, celebrates with Miguel Rojas after hitting a home run in the second inning of the Dodgers' 12-3 win over the Colorado Rockies on Monday night. Rojas homered on the next at-bat. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)
The Dodgers escaped the House of Mile-High Horrors having to salvage a split against the less-talented Colorado Rockies, having played the coldest game in franchise history, having reliever Blake Treinen hit in the head by a batted ball during batting practice.
And most significantly, having to report Monday that star closer Edwin DĂaz will have surgery to remove âloose bodiesâ in his right elbow, likely sidelining him for three months.
But the fourth and final game at Coors Field was more normal, more like it. More like the Dodgers, who dominated, 12-3.
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They piled up 15 hits, five of them home runs and scored in every inning but the first and fifth.
Among the Dodgersâ many highlights: Miguel Rojas pumping his fists running to first base after smacking his 1,000th hit through the hole to left field.
And Shohei Ohtani extended his consecutive on-base streak to 52 with a single to right in the third, when the Dodgers pushed the lead to 4-1. That moved him within one game of Shawn Greenâs mark, which is second all-time among Dodgers. Ohtani also stole his first base of the season.
Also, the Dodgers (16-6) had back-to-back home runs for the first time this season. Those came in the second, when Nos. 6 and 7 hitters Max Muncy and Rojas â who Roberts flipped in the lineup just before the game â hit solo shots to put their team in front, 2-1.
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani rounds third base on his way to scoring against Colorado.
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani rounds third base on his way to scoring in the third inning against the Rockies on Monday. Ohtani extended his on-base streak to 52 games. (David Zalubowski / Associated Press)
Muncy added another long ball in the ninth, yanking his eighth home run of the season 397 feet into the left field to make it 10-2 â and career multi-home run game No. 22, as well as No. 5 at Coors Field and No. 3 this season.
And then there was Dalton Rushing, who got in the lineup at first base instead of catching. He played solidly in the field in place of Freddie Freeman, who is on paternity leave. But more importantly, he continued to smolder at the plate, hitting his sixth and seventh home runs in just his 26th and 27th at-bats this season.
Rushingâs 385-foot blast to left field and Teoscar HernĂĄndezâs RBI single made it 9-1 in the eighth. And Rushingâs two-run, 421-foot bomb in the ninth made it 12-2 and gave him his second career multi-home run game.
The host Rockies (9-14) even contributed to the Dodgersâ cause, with three errors and an ill-timed balk on starter Jose Quintana that not only erased a double play but brought home Muncy to make it 5-1 in the fourth.
Dodgers starting pitcher Justin Wrobleski delivers during the first inning against the Rockies.
Dodgers starting pitcher Justin Wrobleski delivers during the first inning against the Rockies on Monday night. (Justin Edmonds / Getty Images)
On the mound for the Dodgers, starter Justin Wrobleski shut down a Rockies team that just scored a combined 13 runs on their two wins against the Dodgers.
Wrobleski pitched seven innings, allowing eight hits but just one run. That came before he got his first out, when Jordan Beck and Brenton Doyle opened with consecutive doubles.
After that, sharp defensive plays by Rushing and second baseman Santiago Espinal got the Dodgers out of the first inning. The Rockies didnât threaten again against Wrobleski until the fifth, when they put runners on the corners with one out but again couldnât score.
The 25-year-old Wrobleski has given up just two runs in 20 innings through three starts â all wins â this season.
The Rockiesâ only other runs came on TJ Rumfieldâs 440-foot home run in the eighth, and in the ninth, when they scored one run on Jake Eder, the reliever who made his Dodgers debut after being called up in place of DĂaz.
Up next for the Dodgers: A three-game series starting Tuesday in San Francisco.
