Max Muncy homered twice and hit an RBI double as the Los Angeles Dodgers opened a four-game series with a 7-1 win over the Colorado Rockies on a chilly Friday night in Denver.
Shohei Ohtani had two hits to extend his on-base streak to 49 games, the fifth-longest run in Dodgers history.
Los Angeles starter Tyler Glasnow (2-0) allowed just two hits, two walks and a run while striking out seven in seven strong innings. Jack Dreyer handled the last two innings to close out a combined two-hitter.
Will Smith and Freddie Freeman had two hits apiece for Los Angeles, which has won four in a row.
The temperature at first pitch was 35 degrees and dropped into the high 20s by the end of the game.
Ohtani led off the game with a double to continue his on-base streak that started last Aug. 24. He is one behind “Wee” Willie Keeler for fourth and nine short of the franchise record (since 1900) of 58, which Duke Snider set in 1954.
Ohtani eventually scored on Smith’s sacrifice fly to give Los Angeles a 1-0 lead.
Mickey Moniak doubled and scored the lone run for the Rockies, who have lost seven of their past eight games.
Muncy led off the second inning with his first home run of the night, and the Dodgers doubled the lead in the third. Smith led off with a single, went to second when Freeman walked, moved to third on a wild pitch and scored on Muncy’s double.
Freeman came home on Andy Pages’ sacrifice fly to make it 4-0.
Smith’s RBI single in the fourth drove in Kyle Tucker.
Rockies starter Tomoyuki Sugano (1-1) allowed five runs on nine hits, walked two and struck out three in four innings.
Colorado got to Glasnow in the bottom of the fourth. Moniak led off with a double, moved to third on TJ Rumfield’s groundout and then scored on Troy Johnston’s grounder to third.
Glasnow retired 11 in a row after Moniak’s double, a streak broken by Ezequiel Tovar’s two-out double in the seventh.
The Dodgers tacked on two more runs in the fifth on Muncy’s second homer of the night, his sixth of the season, and a sacrifice fly from Alex Freeland.
–Field Level Media
