LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Mookie Betts singled in the go-ahead run with two strikes in the eighth inning, lifting the Los Angeles Dodgers to a 4-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Wednesday night in the series finale.<\/p>\n
Betts ended the nine-pitch at-bat with his hit to center off Rockies reliever Antonio Senzatela (8-1) that scored Tommy Edman, who singled and moved to third on Freddie Freeman’s double.<\/p>\n
The Dodgers took two of three to prevent Colorado from winning its first series at Dodger Stadium since August 2021.<\/p>\n
The Rockies loaded the bases against reliever Alex Vesia in the eighth, but Edgardo Henriquez (4-0) came in and got Kyle Karros to fly out for the third out.<\/p>\n
Tanner Scott retired the side in the ninth to earn his 13th save.<\/p>\n
Colorado\u2019s Gabriel Hughes had a rough first inning in his first major league start. The 24-year-old right-hander gave up three runs, with Tommy Edman singling and scoring on Hughes\u2019 wild pitch and a two-run RBI single by Kyle Tucker.<\/p>\n
Hughes then settled down and retired 15 consecutive batters before Max Muncy\u2019s double in the sixth. The Alaska native retired Shohei Ohtani three times, including a strikeout. Ohtani struck out a second time in the eighth on his bobblehead night after homering in the first two games of the series.<\/p>\n
The Rockies answered with three runs to tie it at 3.<\/p>\n
Karros and Edouard Julien hit solo shots off Dodgers starter Roki Sasaki in the second. Brett Sullivan walked, took second on Sasaki\u2019s wild pitch, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Mickey Moniak\u2019s sacrifice fly in the third.<\/p>\n
Sasaki gave up three runs and four hits in six innings. He struck out five and walked one.<\/p>\n
Up next <\/p>\n
Rockies: RHP Ryan Feltner (3-2, 4.27 ERA) starts Thursday against San Francisco LHP Robbie Ray (8-6, 3.45).<\/p>\n
Dodgers: After an off day for Los Angeles, Ohtani (8-2, 1.79) starts Friday against Arizona in the series opener.<\/p>\n
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AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n
Beth Harris, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 Mookie Betts singled in the go-ahead run with two strikes in the eighth inning,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":790004,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-790003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=790003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/790004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=790003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=790003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=790003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}