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A trip to Coors Field is always a potential disaster, and things got even more nervy when it looked like they might play in a blizzard, but things cleared up to just cold before game time and the bats of the Dodgers were somehow hot early. Max Muncy homered twice as they got out to an early lead, and Tyler Glasnow was excellent again to help them cruise in a 7-1 win over the Rockies.
Someone tell Emmet Sheehan to lock in
— DodgersMuse (@LADodgersMuse) April 17, 2026
🎥 @MasayaKotani pic.twitter.com/9bYf1IpFBy
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Tomoyuki Sugano is on the Rockies and didn’t have a great day, giving up five runs in four innings, and he was quite frankly lucky to only have that much damage.
Things started immediately with a Shohei Ohtani double, which was eventually scored on a Will Smith sacrifice fly.
Shohei doubles, Tucker moves him over, and a Dills sac fly leads to the first run. Somehow probably not what you want at Coors. pic.twitter.com/wA6oLdsSq8
— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) April 18, 2026
Max Muncy’s first homer came to start the 2nd innings, pushing the lead to 2-0. Not a fan of cold weather, but he’s hitting anyway.
Broadcast talks about how Max Muncy hates cold weather and is literally me about it before he smashes a solo shot to center. pic.twitter.com/gYXNd84O24
— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) April 18, 2026
They continued to score in the 3rd, as Will led off with a single, Freddie Freeman walked, and Muncy doubled to score Will. Andy Pages then hit a sac fly to score Freddie and it was 4-0.
¡Max y Andy para aumentar la ventaja! pic.twitter.com/8JSAvtHxPp
— Los Dodgers (@LosDodgers) April 18, 2026
Sugano got no relief in the 4th, as he gave up a double to Kyle Tucker, who scored on Smith single to push things to 5-0.
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On the other end was Tyler Glasnow, who cruised through seven innings to continue his great start to the year.
There was basically no drama in game, and the only run he gave up came in the 4th after a lead-off double was scored on a pair of groundouts, the latter of which Muncy had the runner dead out at home but choose to take the sure thing.
Completely dominant at Coors: 7 IP, 2 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 7 H, 92 Pitches.
Tyler Glasnow's 2Ks in the 2nd. pic.twitter.com/bbCxtawf66
— Rob Friedman (@PitchingNinja) April 18, 2026
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It was 5-1 Dodgers for only a hot minute, as the Dodgers came right back in the 5th against their pen with Muncy’s second homer of the game and sixth of the season.
Max Muncy is snow good. pic.twitter.com/IrGOqFhsJY
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) April 18, 2026
Andy Pages and Hyeseong Kim followed with back-to-back singles, and eventually Pages scored on an Alex Freeland sac fly to make it 7-1.
Both teams sorta shut it down after that and wanted to get it over with or something.
The Dodger bats packed it in over the final four frames, and Jack Dreyer finished off the last two innings with scoreless baseball to secure the W.
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Pages was bundled up.
Had some trouble getting it off. https://t.co/hZ9uFJyIxl pic.twitter.com/nzUZGT0WeE
— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) April 18, 2026
Shohei Ohtani’s on-base streak continues.
Only three longer streaks in franchise history:
— Bill Plunkett (@billplunkettocr) April 18, 2026
Duke Snider — 58 (1954)
Shawn Green — 53 (2003)
Willie Keeler — 50 (1900-01)
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15-4, four wins in a row.
The Dodgers get back to it tomorrow at 2:10 PM HT/5:10 PM PT/8:10 PM ET with Emmet Sheehan on the bump against Ryan Feltner.
