Major League Baseball
LA Dodgers 9, Colorado 2
When: 8:10 PM ET, Saturday, July 17, 2021
Where: Coors Field, Denver, Colorado
Temperature: 89°
Umpires: Home - Mark Ripperger, 1B - Cory Blaser, 2B - Tom Hallion, 3B - Adam Hamari
Attendance: 48245

Max Muncy homered twice, drove in five and finished with four hits, Mookie Betts and A.J. Pollock also went deep, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 9-2 in Denver on Saturday night.

Betts also had three doubles before leaving the game in the seventh inning with a right hip irritation, according to the team. Pollock had two hits and scored two runs for the Dodgers.

Walker Buehler (10-1) struck out eight in seven innings for Los Angeles, which has won eight straight over Colorado.

Ryan McMahon doubled and drove in a run for the Rockies, who didn't have a baserunner after the third inning.

The Dodgers struck first when Betts led off the game with a double and scored on a single by Muncy.

Colorado got even in the second. McMahon led off with a walk, went to third on a double by Sam Hilliard and Dom Nunez walked to load the bases. Pitcher Kyle Freeland hit a sacrifice fly to left to tie it.

Freeland (1-4) allowed three runs on six hits and struck out four in six innings of work.

Betts hit his 14th home run in the third to put Los Angeles ahead 2-1, but the Rockies matched it in their half of the inning. Brendan Rodgers led off with a single and scored on McMahon's one-out double.

It stayed tied until the sixth. Betts led off with a double and came home on Muncy's single to make it 3-2.

Pollock led off the seventh with a home run off of reliever Mychal Givens, his 13th of the year, to make it 4-2. Betts reached on a double to the gap in right-center field but jogged into second base. He immediately left the game and Gavin Lux came on as a pinch runner.

The Dodgers extended the lead when Muncy homered leading off the eighth, and Los Angeles put it away in the ninth. Justin Turner had a two-run double and Muncy hit his 21st home run to cap the four-run inning.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
LA Dodgers   Colorado
Walker Buehler Player Kyle Freeland
Win W/L Loss
7.0 IP 6.0
8 Strikeouts 4
4 Hits 6
2.57 ERA 4.50
Hitting
LA Dodgers   Colorado
Mookie Betts Player Sam Hilliard
4 Hits 1
1 RBI 0
1 HR 0
10 TB 2
1.000 Avg .333
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
LA Dodgers 12 4 28 .308 12 9 9 1 0 0
Colorado 4 0 6 .133 7 10 2 2 0 0