LOS ANGELES—Antonio Senzatela pitched seven shiny innings, C.J. Cron slugged a three-flee homer and the Colorado Rockies beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 5-0 on Sunday, taking two of three from the defending World Sequence champions.
Senzatela (3-9) cooled off the Dodgers, winners of 17 of 20, by allowing two hits in honest their fourth shutout loss of the season. They omitted a possibility to contain ground on NL West-main San Francisco, which misplaced 9-0 to the East-main Atlanta Braves, who come to Los Angeles on Monday. The Giants lead the Dodgers by 2½ games.
Senzatela struck out 5 and walked one on 90 pitches. The Dodgers done with three hits.
Senzatela had a splendid game thru four innings. Corey Seager within the extinguish broke thru with a leadoff single within the fifth. He moved to third on a single by Cody Bellinger, inserting runners at the corners, but Austin Barnes grounded into a fielder’s possibility to total the possibility.
Senzatela walked Seager main off the seventh and hit Chris Taylor, but the honest-hander retired the next three batters.
The Rockies nearly gave the sport abet within the eighth. Tyler Kinley received two fast outs, but Trevor Memoir misplaced Trea Turner’s high popup to left-center within the solar and Kinley walked Max Muncy. Kinley’s second wild pitch of the inning moved the runners up sooner than he received AJ Pollock on a swinging strike.
The Rockies had runners on unpleasant in every inning besides the fifth and eighth after managing honest three hits in a 5-2 loss on Saturday. They gained the opener 4-2.
Colorado improved to 16-49 on the avenue.
Cron leads the majors with 33 RBIs in August. Brendan Rodgers singled and Charlie Blackmon doubled to enviornment up Cron, who blasted his 24th homer of the season and 10th this month for a 3-0 lead against Mitch White (1-2) within the key.
Colorado prolonged its result in 5-0 within the seventh. Rio Ruiz hit a bases-loaded sacrifice soar off Joe Kelly. Shane Greene got here in and his wild pitch received by Austin Barnes and rolled to the backstop, allowing Memoir to discover.
Going thru an overworked bullpen, the Dodgers sent All-Star third baseman Justin Turner to the mound within the ninth, the key time he’s pitched in his occupation. He gave up abet-to-abet singles to Memoir and Cron sooner than retiring the next three batters and strolling off to cheers.
Bellinger is struggling with a .169 practical, but he’s composed spectacular on protection. He backtracked to develop a twisting, leaping clutch of Connor Joe’s liner to deep honest-center that ended the sixth. Bellinger’s hat flew off and he crashed into the wall, resting against it and flipping the ball from his glove to his left hand because the team roared.
Joe, hitless in 5 at-bats, made a nifty clutch of his non-public within the seventh. He leaned over the lower wall in left-field sinful territory to retire Taylor in entrance of a young fan who pounded his non-public glove on top of the wall in frustration.
White turned into called up earlier Sunday for his seventh stint with the Dodgers this season. He gave up three runs and 6 hits in 3 1/3 innings.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Dodgers: OF Mookie Betts, who is working his manner abet from rupture day with a hip injury, will seemingly be on a agenda of three days on and a rupture day going ahead. “There’s going to be a degree where we’re honest going to flee him accessible each day because of he’s the splendid possibility,” supervisor Dave Roberts stated.
UP NEXT
Rockies: RHP Germán Márquez (11-9, 4.02 ERA) starts Monday at Texas. He’s 3-7 with a 5.31 ERA on the avenue this season and has but to beat the Rangers in three occupation starts.
Dodgers: LHP Julio Urias (14-3, 3.17) starts Monday within the opener of a big series against NL East-main Atlanta. It’s a rematch of remaining 365 days’s NL Championship Sequence, which the Dodgers gained in seven games on their manner to winning the World Sequence.
