Rockies Report, Game 127:
ROCKIES BOTTOM LINE: Shohei Ohtani had never given up five-consecutive hits in his major-league pitching career. But he’d never pitched in a game that counted at Coors Field before Wednesday night.
The Rockies battered the three-time MVP by knocking out five hits to open the fourth inning, launching them toward a three-run inning that padded their lead en route to an 8-3 win in front of 35,240 at Coors Field on Wednesday night.
Colorado got the damage at Ohtani’s expense started in the second inning via a Brenton Doyle RBI double and an Orlando Arcia sacrifice fly in the second inning. But the real attack began two innings later.
It began when Jordan Beck singled to right field. One pitch later, Warming Bernabel knocked Beck home with an RBI double to left field, although he was thrown out at third base after he tried to capitalize off a throw from the left-field corner by Michael Conforto that skipped off the glove of Miguel Rojas.
Ohtani couldn’t capitalize off that reprieve. Mickey Moniak and Doyle quickly singled, and then Arcia lined an 0-2 fastball off Ohtani’s right quadriceps, briefly knocking him down.
He quickly found his footing in time to field the ball and throw down the first-base line, but Arcia beat it. Tyler Freeman drove Arcia home with run No. 5 two batters later, capping a six-hit, three-run inning.
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Ohtani drew a walk in the fifth inning, but that ended his night.
Hunter Goodman drove in the final three runs, one in the sixth on a single to left field, and then two eighth-inning insurance runs with a double to the right-center-field wall in front of the bullpens, pushing the Rockies’ lead to 8-1.
A Rojas double off Jaden Hill in the ninth scored two for the final margin.
Colorado is 37-90 and has won seven of its last nine games.
ROCKIES STARTER’S REPORT
Tanner Gordon outdueled Ohtani — and perhaps those are four words that one didn’t expect to type.
But after Gordon worked out of a leadoff double and a plunking of Freddie Freeman in the first, he wouldn’t allow a runner past first base in the next three innings, and then induced a Will Smith pop out to extricate himself from a two-on, two-out jam in the fifth.
Given support from the six-hit fourth inning, Gordon went six innings, allowing the Rockies’ tired bulklpen a breather. He had 92 pitches over six innings, scattering four hits and a walk. The only run he allowed came on Teoscar Hernández’s solo shot in the sixth.
Gordon improved to 4-5.
BITS AND PIECES
IT WAS DECIDED FOR THE ROCKIES WHEN: Goodman padded the Rockies’ lead with his 2-RBI double in the eighth inning.
NUMBER TO NOTE: 16 — Hits by the Rockies on Wednesday night. Every player in the lineup got at least one hit; five players got two or more.
WHAT’S NEXT: Chase Dollander gets the nod as the Rockies bid for a series win and a 6-2 homestand. Clayton Kershaw starts for the Dodgers in the getaway-day finale at 1:10 p.m. Thursday.
