Down to their last out, Dodgers rally to win in extra innings

DENVER — The Dodgers were holding the accepted “costume” roadworthy travel (formerly the clip for rookie hazing) connected the mode from Denver to Arizona connected Thursday night.

After escaping with 2 wins successful 3 games astatine Coors Field, they should each person dressed arsenic Houdini.

Down to their past retired – and their past onslaught astatine 1 constituent – successful the ninth inning, the Dodgers rallied to necktie the people connected 3 consecutive singles past won it connected that shot classical – a two-run leadoff location tally – successful the 10th inning.

On the verge of losing 2 retired of 3 to Colorado and perchance heading to Phoenix 3 games backmost successful the NL West with conscionable 9 games near to play, the Dodgers rallied to bushed the Rockies, 7-5, and support the contention for a part rubric precise overmuch alive.

The precocious rally besides kept Max Scherzer unbeaten successful 10 starts arsenic a Dodger – contempt turning successful the worst of those 10 starts.

Scherzer gave up 5 runs successful 5 innings Thursday, matching the full fig of earned runs helium gave up successful the archetypal 9 starts (over 58 innings). It was his shortest commencement arsenic a Dodger, matching a five-inning outing against the Mets connected Aug. 21 – besides the past clip helium allowed an earned tally earlier Thursday.

The Rockies scored 3 times successful the 2nd inning, getting 3 consecutive hits to commencement the inning – 2 shift-buster singles and a Coors Field treble (a medium-depth enactment thrust successful the spread with the outfielders each playing deep) – past the opposing pitcher, Kyle Freeland, dropped a two-out, two-run azygous successful beforehand of near fielder AJ Pollock.

In the fifth, Scherzer walked Freeland to commencement the inning past gave up a two-run location tally into the precocious platform by Raimel Tapia. The 5 runs were the astir Scherzer had fixed up successful a commencement since July 8 erstwhile helium allowed 7 successful 3-2/3 innings against the San Diego Padres portion inactive with the Washington Nationals.

Coors Field has not been benignant to Scherzer. He is 0-4 successful six vocation starts astatine altitude with a 6.39 ERA – acold and distant the highest for immoderate of the 32 ballparks successful which Scherzer has made much than 1 commencement successful his career.

His latest rocky sojourn to the Rocky Mountain State inflated his ERA from 2.08 to 2.28 – inactive the lowest successful MLB.

The Dodgers seemed acceptable connected giving Freeland’s ERA its ain boost. They had the Rockies left-hander connected the ropes early, scoring 3 times successful the 2nd inning.

Pollock led disconnected with a double. Austin Barnes drove him successful with a azygous and Gavin Lux followed with different single. Barnes and Lux pulled disconnected a treble bargain to get into scoring presumption but Scherzer and Mookie Betts struck out. Corey Seager salvaged the inning with a bloop azygous conscionable implicit the 2nd baseman’s head, driving successful 2 runs.

But that was it. The Dodgers’ discourtesy disappeared successful bladed aerial until Pollock’s 2nd treble of the crippled pulled the Dodgers wrong a run, 5-4, successful the eighth inning.

Then successful the ninth, Rockies reliever Carlos Estevez retired the archetypal 2 batters earlier giving up a azygous to Mookie Betts. Estevez was a onslaught distant from retiring Seager erstwhile helium lined a shot backmost of the pitcher for a single.

Turner made it 3 consecutive two-out singles erstwhile helium drove successful the tying run.

The winning rally was overmuch simpler – Muncy deed the archetypal transportation of the 10th inning from Rockies reliever Lucas Gilbreath implicit the partition successful halfway field.

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