Dodgers have Epic comeback
Petersen is the first DODGER born in the United Kingdom. He’s the 28th different pitcher used by the Dodgers this season tied with the Brewers for second -most in the majors this season.one behind the Marlins.
Earl Heath
Contributing Sports Writer
Down five runs in the ninth inning, the DODGERS put on their wildest comeback to date this season, stunning the Rockies with an 11-9 win earlier this week at Coors Field.
Facing Tyler Kinley in the ninth, Andy Pages walked and Miguel Rojas singled to open the frame, then one out later Miguel Vargas walked to load the bases. Jason Heyward pinch-hit for Chris Taylor, and promptly hit a grand slam to get the Dodgers closer than they’d been since the top of the first inning.
Shohei Ohtani singled off Victor Vodnik, putting the tying run on base. Will Smith on a 3-2 pitch tried to verbally call time then inexplicably stepped out of the box as a third strike crossed the plate. Home plate umpire Will Little did not grant time, making Smith the second out.
Then came Teoscar Hernández, who fell behind 1-2, then tried to check his swing on an outside pitch. First base umpire Lance Barksdale agreed that Hernández did in fact check his swing, but it didn’t matter to angry Rockies manager Bud Black from Jake Cave in right field to Vodnik on the mound. Black got ejected and might have set a record for most times saying “That’s fucking bullshit” in one sitting.
Had that been ruled a swing, the game would be over, a tough Dodgers loss. But granted new life, Hernández went to “RIP CITY” on the next pitch he saw for a game-winning three-run shot to right field.
Pages and Ohtani each hit home runs. Ohtani’s(20) homer was his fifth in the last eight games and 20th of the season. The now leadoff hitter went “Uptown” with a 476- foot blast is the longest in the Majors this season
Michael Petersen made his major league debut in the seventh inning, two days . after being called up from Triple-A The 30-year-old right-hander walked his first batter, Nolan Jones, who advanced to third on a single and scored on a sacrifice fly. Petersen settled down in a perfect eighth inning, striking out both Elehurs Montero and Brenton Doyle, each of whom homered earlier, for his first two major league strikeouts.
Petersen is the first DODGER born in the United Kingdom. He’s the 28th different pitcher used by the Dodgers this season tied with the Brewers for second -most in the majors this season.one behind the Marlins.
The “Men in Blue” became the first team in MLB history to hit both a grand slam and a 3-run HR while trailing in the 9th inning or later in the same game.
The previous night in the series opener at Coors Field- Hernández, Ohtani, Rojas and Gavin Lux all had doubled awhile Ohtani and Heyward knocked in two runs a piece in a 9-5 DODGER win. Jason Paxon (7-1) got the win- Going 7 innings giving up just two hits while striking out 8.
Freedy Freeman walked five times one short of the Major League record. “Over the last few weeks, I know we haven’t been swinging the way we wanted to, but it felt like the bats were getting better and better as each day went on,” Freeman said. “Today, we just kind of put it all together.”
