Rushing Walks it Off, Ohtani Drives in Four in Dodgers Win Against Rockies

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Since the Los Angeles Dodgers acquired southpaw Eric Lauer from the Toronto Blue Jays after they dumped him astatine the opening of May, the 31-year-old has been the astir unexpected (and astir reliable) pickup for the Dodgers successful caller memory.

Though helium exited the crippled with a 6-3 pb successful the sixth, the Colorado Rockies fought each the mode backmost to enactment this crippled successful other innings. After a back-and-forth quandary betwixt the 2 clubs, it was Dalton Rushing who poked the walk-off victor up the mediate successful the 11th to springiness the Dodgers an 8-7 victory.

“He had a large night. He conscionable willed himself to marque thing happen. He was uncovering his mode to enactment the shot successful play," Dave Roberts said connected Rushing's show astatine the sheet via SportsNetLA.

For Lauer, that marked his 4th prime commencement successful a Dodgers azygous and successful the games helium has started, Los Angeles is simply a cleanable 7-0.

Lauer has posted a 3.12 ERA successful his past 40.1 innings pitched and has gone 3-0 successful his past six starts.

"I deliberation wide I was beauteous blessed with however I was commanding the ball," Lauer said connected his outing via SportsNetLA.

Even with Lauer's bid consistently hitting the onslaught zone, helium was inactive captious of however helium was allowing hits.

"There was a fewer pitches that I missed locations beauteous bad. So that benignant of allowed them to enactment the shot successful play. Overall, I'm a small frustrated with however I was throwing the ball. Definitely immoderate things to tighten down.

Jul 6, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Eric Lauer (33) pitches against the Colorado Rockies successful the archetypal inning astatine Dodger Stadium. --&nbsp;© Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

As Lauer was holding the fort down connected the mound, the Dodgers' discourtesy picked him with an explosive 4th inning disconnected Rockies seasoned right-hander Kyle Freeland.

Just earlier each of that, Shohei Ohtani enactment the Dodgers successful beforehand successful the bottommost fractional of the 3rd inning with a two-home run. That was not lone Ohtani's 19th location tally of the play (his archetypal agelong shot of July), but it was besides his 299th vocation location run.

Jul 6, 2026; Los Angeles, California, USA; Los Angeles Dodgers designated hitter Shohei Ohtani (17) runs aft hitting a 2 tally location tally against the Colorado Rockies successful the 3rd inning astatine Dodger Stadium. --&nbsp;© Kirby Lee-Imagn Images

In the fourth, Max Muncy led disconnected the scoring surge with an RBI azygous pursuing back-to-back hits from Kyle Tucker and Teoscar Hernández. Miguel Rojas followed that up with a sacrifice alert and Ohtani drove successful 2 much runs connected an RBI azygous arsenic helium went 3-for-4 with 4 RBIs.

“Tonight was the archetypal nighttime successful a portion that helium really looked similar Shohei," Roberts said.

The Rockies remained soundless astatine the sheet each the mode up until the ninth inning, erstwhile Colorado jumped connected Tanner Scott.

Kyle Karros kicked disconnected the inning with an RBI treble that chopped the shortage to 6-4. Cole Carrigg made a splash by slashing a bases-clearing RBI treble that would person enactment the Rockies ahead, but a adjacent play astatine the sheet went the Dodgers' way.

Unfortunately, this led to the archetypal extra-innings crippled that the Dodgers person played each year. Their streak of 91 consecutive games without playing successful extras was snapped.

Colorado wasted nary clip arsenic they scored successful the apical fractional of the 10th inning aft Jake McCarthy grounded retired to Freddie Freeman. His propulsion to the sheet was precocious and Rushing's added tag — on with immoderate added verbiage betwixt the 2 — sparked a near-benches-clearing altercation.

The Dodgers re-tied the crippled successful their bottommost fractional of the 10th with a Mookie Betts RBI single. That deed extended his on-base streak to 16 games.

Fast guardant to the Dodgers' location fractional of the 11th. Rushing was up with runners connected 2nd and 3rd — each acknowledgment to Tommy Edman's 2nd sacrifice bunt — which allowed Rushing to poke a broken-bat RBI azygous to locomotion it off.