Last April, a deluge in Philadelphia derailed the Dodgers<\/a> and Tyler Glasnow failed one such test<\/a> in a frustrating defeat against the Phillies.<\/p>\n Dodger Max Muncy follows the flight of his solo home run off Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano Friday in Denver.<\/p>\n (David Zalubowski\/AP)<\/p>\n On Friday, in his first visit to Coors Field, the Dodgers\u2019 towering right-hander pitched with heart and soul, discipline and professionalism. With marked efficiency. Glasnow (2-0) got the win, going seven innings and allowing just one run and two hits, striking out seven and walking two on 92 pitches.<\/p>\n And his Dodgers teammates put runs on the board as if they were logs on the fire, scoring at least one run every inning through the inning en route to a breezy 7-1 victory<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cJust kind of where [Glasnow is] at right now \u2014 physically, mentally, emotionally, all that stuff. He just wasn\u2019t distracted,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cNothing was going to affect his performance tonight. He didn\u2019t have his best stuff tonight, maybe because of the cold. Still to be efficient, put us in position to win, go seven innings.\u201d<\/p>\n Glasnow concurred, saying he had no trouble staying warm between innings, and moreover, he now feels comfortable with changes he made last year.<\/p>\n \u201cI definitely feel different this year compared to last year\u2026\u201d said Glasnow, a former Hart High standout. \u201cWhen you pitch a certain way for so long, and then you switch up so many things, you just kind of feel in unfamiliar territory.<\/p>\n \u201cI think just being able to go back to what I was doing throughout my career, changing it from last year to this year, I\u2019m a little bit freer, or more athletic. I can focus on what I need to focus on, as opposed to trying to feel normal.\u201d<\/p>\n As the grounds crew works to clear snow while Dodgers third baseman Santiago Espinal tosses a snowball at a coach before the team played the Rockies Friday in Denver.<\/p>\n (David Zalubowski \/ Associated Press)<\/p>\n The Dodgers operated like normal Friday too, despite the conditions: It\u2019s clear that it\u2019s going to take more than some ice on the field to cool off this club, which collected 13 hits, nine of them off Colorado starter Tomoyuki Sugano.<\/p>\n Coming into Friday, the right-hander had allowed just four runs across 16 2\/3 innings in his first three starts. But Sugano (1-1) took the loss against the Dodgers after they forced him from the game after the fourth inning with his Rockies trailing 5-0, having thrown 91 pitches (just 51 of them for strikes).<\/p>\n \u201cJust you have to play it,\u201d said Max Muncy<\/a>, whose leadoff home runs in the second and fifth innings helped the hot hitters up and down the Dodgers\u2019 lineup sap all the suspense from the first of a four-game wraparound series.<\/p>\n \u201cSomething that was kind of huge was we were told right from the start, the game was going to start on time. And, you know, when you know you have to go out there and play, obviously, the weather sucks, but if there\u2019s no question of you may not play, you may get delayed, you may play a doubleheader?<\/p>\n \u201cWhen there\u2019s no question of that, it\u2019s easier to just kind of block out the noise and go out there and get ready \u2026 so we prepared like we were supposed to.\u201d<\/p>\n Most of the crowd of 28,783 loved to see it. Thousands of dutifully bundled Dodgers supporters chanted and cheered as their team notched its fourth consecutive victory and its 15th victory in 19 games this season, maintaining momentum in the first game of a 13-consecutive-game stretch.<\/p>\n Glasnow held the Rockies (7-13) at bay until the fourth inning, when Troy Johnston\u2019s groundout pushed across Mickey Moniak to make it 5-1.<\/p>\n The Dodgers\u2019 first runs came much more quickly. Will Smith\u2019s<\/a> one-out sacrifice fly in the first inning brought home Shohei Ohtani<\/a>, who\u2019d led off the game with a double \u2014 he went two for three off Sugano on Friday, making the Dodgers\u2019 superstar six for seven all-time against his countryman.<\/p>\n Muncy\u2019s 434-foot home run in the second made it 2-0 and his double down the line in the third drove in Smith, who\u2019d reached on a broken-bat single that sent Roberts scurrying in the dugout, to make it 3-0.<\/p>\n No harm, no foul: \u201cIt almost got me,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cThat was a slow-motion situation. I didn\u2019t know which way to go \u2026 usually I\u2019m pretty in tune and have an exit strategy but I didn\u2019t have one tonight.\u201d<\/p>\n Before the inning was over, Andy Pages<\/a>\u2019 sacrifice brought home Freddie Freeman to make it 4-0.<\/p>\n The Dodgers pushed it to 5-0 in the fourth inning when Smith singled to left to score Kyle Tucker<\/a>, who\u2019d doubled off the center field wall.<\/p>\n And then Muncy led off the fifth with his second solo shot, giving him his 21st career multi-homer game, and his fourth at Coors Field. After Alex Freeland<\/a> hit a sacrifice fly to left to bring home Pages, the Dodgers led 7-1.<\/p>\n![\"Dodger](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776496454_13_.jpeg\")
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