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Despite riding high off the sweep of the Padres, facing off against the Rockies at Coors Field is never fun and seemed like a prime series for a letdown. Sure enough, the bats stayed mostly cold throughout the night, keeping the Rockies in the game thanks in large part to Teoscar Hernandez‘s disastrous defense, which eventually cost the Dodgers the game in a 4-3 loss.
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Things started ominously, as back-to-back singles from Shohei Ohtani and Mookie Betts began the game, but they didn’t move thanks to the pair of strikeouts and a flyout that followed.
The Dodgers had the same start in the 2nd with back-to-back singles from Alex Call and Miguel Rojas, but this time they got a different result. A wild pitch advanced both runners, and a one-out sac fly to the wall from Dalton Rushing plated the game’s first run. Shohei then followed by ripping a single back up the box for another run, and it was 2-0 early.
Dalton y Shohei con las primeras carreras del juego. pic.twitter.com/eUiu8hnPJf
— Los Dodgers (@LosDodgers) August 19, 2025
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On the other end was Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who laid an egg last time out. Today he started well with three strikeouts in the first two innings of perfect ball.
Yoshi unfortunately got Coors’d in the 3rd with help from shitty defense, as a lead-off walk was followed by a blooper falling in front of Teoscar yet again that ended up with the trail runner taking second on the attempt to get the lead runner going for third. Bleak.
So that put two in scoring position, and Ryan Ritter then rolled a groundball single to right to plate them both and tie things up at 2-2.
Ritter ties it‼️ pic.twitter.com/wQb5Uo8mgG
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) August 19, 2025
From that point, he got locked back in, retiring the next 12 in a row to get him through the sixth inning.
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Back to the bats, who went through a cold stretch. After a one-out double and walk put a pair on in the 3rd, that rally was killed off by a double play. That started a streak of seven in a row retired, broken in the 5th by a Freddie Freeman lead-off walk. After a strikeout, Freddie stole second, but another strikeout put them on the verge of blowing the chance. Thankfully, pinch-hitter Alex Freeland got his first extra-base hit of his career, doubling to drive in Freddie to give the Dodgers a 3-2 lead.
Freeland scores Freeman! pic.twitter.com/wQyZ44Gik6
— Los Angeles Dodgers (@Dodgers) August 19, 2025
Over the final three innings, the Dodgers got just a one-out double in the 8th the rest of the way.
Just terrible at-bats.
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The lead lasted just an inning, as Yamamoto came back out for the 7th trying to help save the pen, and gave up the game-tying homer to Ezequiel Tovar. 3-3.
TOVI POP ? pic.twitter.com/k1lfUIXmgu
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) August 19, 2025
Still, it could’ve been worse, as a two-out walk and single cornered the runners, but Yamamoto was able to escape to complete his outing.
Like many pitchers at Coors, he pitched better than the line: 7 IP, 4 H, 3 R, 2 BB, 6 K, 103 Pitches.
In relief of him was Edgardo Henriquez in the 8th, who got a 1-2-3 frame. And so it was scoreless in the 9th for Justin Wrobleski, who got a flyout to start, but then saw a “double” fall in front of Teoscar.
You have to be fucking joking. pic.twitter.com/bXPhm9qniB
— Chad Moriyama (@ChadMoriyama) August 19, 2025
The Rockies then walked it off on a groundball single.
SWEET DREAMS ARE MADE OF THIS#Rockies x @denvermattress pic.twitter.com/GUT5hCc6qb
— Colorado Rockies (@Rockies) August 19, 2025
4-3.
Not sure how many more balls I can watch fall in front of Teoscar, man.
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| NL West | Record | GB |
|---|---|---|
| Dodgers | 71-54 | – |
| Padres | 69-55* | 1.5 |
Same two teams, same place, and same time of 2:40 PM HT/5:40 PM PT/8:40 PM ET tomorrow, and it’ll be Emmet Sheehan facing off against Austin Gomber.
