Red-hot Rockies come back again, knock off Dodgers with walk-off win

Corey Masisak, The Denver Post on Aug 18, 2025

Published in Baseball

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DENVER — The Colorado Rockies are officially one of the hottest teams in baseball.

Warming Bernabel singled home Ezequiel Tovar in the bottom of the ninth to give the Rockies a 4-3 win Monday night against the Los Angeles Dodgers in front of 27,259 at Coors Field.

A game-tying home run from Tovar in the seventh and five strong innings from the bullpen set up Colorado’s ninth-inning heroics. Tovar was on second in the bottom of the night after a bloop double into shallow right field that Dodgers outfielder Teoscar Hernandez could not handle cleanly.

The win, which was the Rockies’ sixth in seven games, snapped a 10-game losing streak to the Dodgers.

Los Angeles grabbed the early lead with a two-run second inning. Rookie catcher Dalton Rushing drove one to the wall in right field, plenty deep enough to score Alex Call on a sacrifice fly. Then, superstar Shohei Ohtani lashed one 106.5 miles per hour up the middle that was too hot for Tovar to handle, which plated a second run.

The Rockies got both of those runs back in the bottom of the third. Kyle Karros drew a leadoff walk, then beat the throw at third after Brenton Doyle’s bloop single into the right. Ryan Ritter punched one through the hole between first and second, which allowed both runners to score.

Colorado starter Kyle Freeland left the game after four innings because of a blister on his pitching hand. The Rockies called time for a check-up on his finger during the middle of an inning, but then he could no longer continue while trying to warm up for the top of the fifth.

Freeland labored at times, but also racked up five strikeouts. He put at least two runners on in each of the first three innings before cruising through a 1-2-3 fourth. The left-hander’s last start, Aug. 12 in St. Louis, was his longest of the season: 7 1/3 shutout innings in a 3-0 Rockies win.

Another Dodgers rookie pushed Los Angeles back in front in the top of the sixth. Freddie Freeman walked and stole second before the first extra-base hit of Alex Freeland’s big-league career, a double into the right-center gap, made it 3-2.

Yoshinobu Yamamoto retired the first six batters, then allowed three straight runners in the third before rolling into the seventh. A leadoff strikeout was 13 straight retired, but Tovar pounced on a misplaced fastball and sent it 413 feet over the right-field wall to bring the Rockies level again.

Colorado entered the night with five wins in its past six contests — the best six-game stretch of the season for the Rockies. The past two wins were of the dramatic variety, with comebacks from down five on Saturday night and three back Sunday afternoon.

This one had more late-inning heroics as well.

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