Dalton Rushing delivered the winning single in the 11th inning and Shohei Ohtani homered and drove in four runs to help the Los Angeles Dodgers produce an 8-7 victory over the visiting Colorado Rockies on Monday night.
Rushing (two runs), Ohtani and Kyle Tucker each had three hits as the Dodgers prevailed in their first extra-inning contest of the season. Ohtani’s homer was the 299th of his career.
Cole Carrigg had three hits, two RBIs and scored three times and Ezequiel Tovar homered and had two RBIs for Colorado, which trailed 6-1 after four innings.
Teoscar Hernandez was the runner placed on second to start the 11th and Max Muncy was walked intentionally by Jimmy Herget (0-3). Tommy Edman bunted the runners over before Rushing hit the decisive single to the right of Rockies second baseman Edouard Julien for the Dodgers, who won for the 11th time in the past 14 games.
Dodgers closer Tanner Scott blew a three-run lead in the ninth.
Kyle Karros hit a one-out RBI double into the right-center gap to pull the Rockies within 6-4 before the Dodgers intentionally walked Hunter Goodman to load the bases.
Scott struck out TJ Rumfield on three pitches before Carrigg ripped a two-run double into the gap in right-center to tie the score. Goodman tried to score from first and was thrown out at the plate.
Carrigg was at third with one out in the 10th when Jake McCarthy grounded to first against Edgardo Henriquez (3-0). Freddie Freeman touched the bag but his throw home was late as Carrigg scored to give Colorado a 7-6 lead.
In the bottom of the 10th, Pages was at third with one out and he scored when Julien failed to grab Mookie Betts’ liner.
Eric Lauer allowed three runs and six hits over six innings for Los Angeles. He struck out three and walked two.
Kyle Freeland gave up six runs and nine hits over five innings for Colorado. He struck out two and walked none.
After Tovar drove in a run with a second-inning sacrifice fly, the Dodgers scored the next six runs.
Rushing doubled off Freeland to lead off the third inning and Ohtani hit the next pitch over the wall in left-center to give Los Angeles a 2-1 lead.
In the fourth, Tucker, Hernandez and Muncy stroked consecutive singles to make it 3-1 and Miguel Rojas followed with a sacrifice fly to score Hernandez.
Rushing doubled to put runners on second and third before Ohtani delivered a two-run single to center to make it 6-1.
Tovar led off with a homer in the top of the fifth for the Rockies. One inning later, Carrigg led off with a double and scored on McCarthy’s one-out single.
