The temperature in Denver was a frigid 35 degrees at first pitch, but the bats of the Dodgers stayed red hot. Max Muncy led the Los Angeles Dodgers’ offense with two solo home runs in their 7–1 victory over the Colorado Rockies on a snowy Friday night at Coors Field.
Baseball was ready to be played at Coors Field after five hours of snow removal and field preparation by the impressive Rockies grounds crew before first pitch.
The cold never bothered Max Muncy anyway.
The Dodgers slugger went 3-for-4
with two home runs, a double, two runs, and three RBI. Every hitter in the lineup sans Teoscar Hernandez had a base hit on the night.
After a day off at the plate, but not the mound, Shohei Ohtani collected his first base hit since Sunday to extend his on-base streak to 49 games. The lead-off double was scorched down the right field line on two strikes.
The Dodgers got on the board first thanks to a Will Smith sac fly.
Muncy, bundled up under his jersey for warmth, doubled the score in the next inning with a huge home run 435-feet over the center field wall.
Glasnow attacked the strike zone early and mowed down four straight Colorado batters. He cruised through seven innings and only allowed two hits.
Muncy doubled in a third run for the Dodgers with one out in the top of the third. Freddie Freeman scored the fourth run on a Pages sac fly.
Sugano served up the third double of the night to Kyle Tucker with one out in the fourth. Smith drove in Tucker to make it a 5-0 Dodgers lead.
The Rockies picked up a run on an RBI groundout by Troy Johnston in the bottom half of the fourth. Mickey Moniak doubled and scored for the Rox.
Muncy was in maximum form. He hit his second leadoff home run of the game, a solo shot off Colorado reliever Zach Agnos in the fifth.
The hit parade continued as Andy Pages and Hyeseong Kim both singled. Pages scored on a Freeland sac fly which looked like it should have been an out for anyone but the Rockies.
Hernandez was the only one without a hit in the Dodgers lineup. Hernandez struck out to end the sixth and break the string of five straight innings of runs scored. He ended up going 0-for-5 with three strikeouts.
Jake Dreyer pitched two scoreless innings out of the Dodgers bullpen and struck out three to shut the door on the Rockies for the series opener win.
Friday particulars
Home runs: Max Muncy 2 (6)
WP — Tyler Glasnow (2-0): 7 IP, 2 hits, 1 run, 2 walks, 7 strikeouts (92 pitches)
LP — Tomoyuki Sugano (1-1): 4 IP, 9 hits, 5 runs, 2 walks, 3 strikeouts (91 pitches)
Notes: Hyeseong Kim stole multiple bases (2) for the first time this season. Max Muncy has second multi-homer game of the season.
Up next
Emmet Sheehan (2-0, 6.60 ERA, 1.47 WHIP) looks for his third straight win for the Dodgers when he starts Saturday night (5:10 p.m.; SportsNet LA). Ryan Feltner (1-1, 7.30 ERA, 1.70 WHIP) takes the ball for the Rockies.
