It was the third straight rough night at the office for the Colorado Rockies on Friday night and their third straight loss against one of the other two teams vying for fist place in the National League West. The Los Angeles Dodgers came with an extraordinary two-strike approach, putting quality contact swings on tough pitches against Kyle Freeland to scratch out run after run while the Rockies found themselves taking bad swings, even in hitter’s counts.
This trend started in the very first inning when Colorado got runners to second and third but failed to score, seeing strikeouts from Mark Reynolds and Ian Desmond and then the Dodgers cashed in on a first and third, one out situation with a sac fly from Cody Bellinger.