Raindrops keep falling on the Rockies’ heads, but who’ll stop the rain of losses?
It appeared as if rookie right-hander Chase Dollander would be the one Wednesday night. The right-hander pitched the best game of his young career, but it wasn’t enough, and he was done in by a simple twist of fate.
The Dodgers, cheered on by their vocal blue-clad faithful, clubbed the Rockies, 8-1, on a rain-drenched Wednesday night at Coors Field.
The decisive blow was Max Muncy’s 418-foot grand slam in the seventh inning off reliever Tyler Kinley. By then, Dollander had long departed the mound.
Los Angeles beat Colorado for the ninth consecutive game, and the Rockies’ home-field misery index went up another notch in front of an announced crowd of 43,881. The Rockies are 8-31 at Coors Field and 18-62 overall. Their 62 losses through the first 80 games are the most of any team in baseball’s modern era. The 2003 Tigers, 1932 and ’37 Red Sox, and 1907 Cardinals were all 19-61 at the 80-game mark.
Plain and simple, the baseball gods hate the 2025 Rockies. Why else would they sic Mother Nature on Colorado’s downtrodden team?
Proof arrived in the top of the sixth inning when lightning crashed and the sky opened up.
With two on and two out, Muncy hit a sky-high flyball to the right side of the infield. Rockies second baseman Thairo Estrada was ready to make the play, and he called for the ball, until he lost it in the raindrops and lights, and covered his head. First baseman Michael Toglia covered his head, too, and was startled when the ball landed just a few feet from him.
Dalton Rushin, who led off the inning with a walk, and Shohei Ohtani, who reached on a single, took off on Dollander’s 3-2 pitch and scored easily to give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.
After a 1-hour, 27-minute rain delay, Jake Bird relieved Dollander. Bird has been Colorado’s best pitcher — starter or reliever — but he gave up back-to-back singles to Teoscar Hernandez and Andy Pages as Los Angeles’ lead grew to 3-0.
Bird also loaded the bases in the seventh before giving way to Kinley, who served up an 0-2 slider to Muncy for the grand slam.
Dollander pitched the best and most efficient game of his career. He allowed only those two fluky runs, gave up three hits, walked two, and struck out one. He induced 11 outs via groundball and threw just 77 pitches, 46 for strikes.
Dodgers starter Yoshinobu Yamamoto pitched even better than Dollander. Over his five scoreless innings, the right-hander allowed just one hit — a two-out single by Sam Hilliard in the third — struck out six and walked one.
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