Colorado Rockies at Los Angeles Dodgers

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Colorado Rockies

60-95, 24-56 Away

Final
6 - 3

Los Angeles Dodgers

92-63, 49-28 Home

McMahon's tiebreaking homer lifts last-place Rockies over NL West-leading Dodgers 6-3

Mookie Betts' dinger brings Dodgers closer

The loss by the 92-win Dodgers assured that for the first time since 2014 no team in the major leagues will win 100 games, not including the 60-game, pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

The Dodgers’ division lead dropped to three games over second-place San Diego, which beat the Chicago White Sox. Los Angeles managed just one hit after the fifth.

Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani stole his 53rd base in the ninth. He has swiped 30 straight bases without being caught dating to July 23.

“He gets the big lead and it feels like five steps he's at second base,” Rockies catcher Jacob Stallings said.

Ohtani, the newly crowned 50-50 king, remained at 52 homers. He singled, walked, scored and struck out on his final giveaway night of the season. The first 40,000 fans in the sellout crowd of 52,267 received an Ohtani T-shirt. Earlier, his two bobblehead promotions snarled traffic and created long lines.

The Dodgers loaded the bases against Seth Halvorsen with two outs in the ninth. Ohtani singled and Freddie Freeman and Tommy Edman walked before Max Muncy went down swinging.

“A really good win for us,” Rockies starter Cal Quantrill said. “At times we’ve had a hard time holding leads. Our bullpen in the last few weeks has been terrific and gave me the freedom to pitch the way I wanted to.”

Halvorsen earned his first major league save. He found out after the eighth that he would pitch the ninth.

“Seth's been super impressive to all of us older guys,” Stallings said. “He didn't look like his heartbeat was fast at all.”

McMahon homered off starter Walker Buehler (1-6), giving the third baseman his fifth consecutive 20-homer season.

Four of the Rockies' six runs came on two-out, two-strike hits, including Charlie Blackmon's two-run homer in the ninth off Daniel Hudson.

Fans booed Rockies reliever Luis Peralta (5-3) for hitting Ohtani on his right elbow with a pitch in the sixth. Ohtani isn't pitching this season as he rehabilitates from the elbow surgery he had in September 2023.

Colorado led 3-0 on Michael Toglia's fielder's choice grounder to Buehler in the first. Buehler's throw to the plate was too high, allowing Blackmon to score after he doubled and went to third on a wild pitch. Ezequiel Tovar doubled down the left-field line for two runs with two outs in the second.

The Dodgers pulled to 3-2 on Mookie Betts' two-run homer in the third that scored Ohtani, who walked. They tied it at 3 on Hunter Feduccia's RBI single with two outs in the fourth.

Buehler gave up four runs and five hits in 5 1/3 innings, struck out a season-high nine and walked one.

“I think I’ve had some rough patches and really questioned if I have the stuff to compete,” Buehler said, “and tonight I felt like I could compete, and just didn’t make the big pitches in the big spots, or kind of made little mistakes and in the big spots, and that’s frustrating.”

Quantrill allowed three runs and six hits in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out five and walked four.

“The battle was good,” Quantrill said. “We got the outs when we needed them and we didn’t give in.”

TRAINER'S ROOM

Rockies: CF Brenton Doyle (left knee tendinitis) was scratched for the second straight day.

Dodgers: LHP Anthony Banda (broken left hand) could return as soon as he's eligible, which is Wednesday.

Rockies: RHP Antonio Senzatela (0-0, 6.00 ERA) makes his second start Sunday since returning from a 16-month rehab after Tommy John surgery.

Dodgers: RHP Yoshinobu Yamamoto (6-2, 2.63) makes his third start since coming off the injured list.

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Matchup Prediction

Dodgers: 68.3%

Rockies: 31.7%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Muncy struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Edman walked.
	9th Inning	Freeman to second on fielder's indifference.
	9th Inning	T. Hernández lined out to right, Ohtani to third.
	9th Inning	Freeman walked.
	9th Inning	Ohtani stole second.

Statistics

COL		LAD
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
1	Hit By Pitch	2
12	Ground Balls	11
14	Strikeouts	9
6	Runs Batted In	3
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
8	Hits	7
2	Stolen Bases	2
2	Walks	7
0	Catcher Interference	0
6	Runs	3
1	Ground Into Double Play	2
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
35	At Bats	33
2	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
17	Runners Left On Base	25
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
4	Doubles	0
9	Fly Balls	13
0	Caught Stealing	0
153	Pitches	167
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
18	Total Bases	10
38	Plate Appearances	42
324.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
6	Extra Base Hits	1
5.3	Runs Created	4.5
.229	Batting Average	.212
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.514	Slugging Percentage	.303
.400	Secondary Average	.364
.289	On Base Percentage	.381
.804	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.684
1.3	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.8
5.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.4
48.0	Batter Rating	24.0
17.5	At Bats Per Home Run	33.0
1.00	Stolen Base Percentage	1.00
4.03	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	3.98
.286	Isolated Power	.091
0.14	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.78
.053	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.167
.171	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.152
12.0	Runs Produced	6.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.5
0.3	Balls In Play Average	0.3
88.0	MLB Rating	76.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0