Years in the past, when Don Drysdale and Sandy Koufax had been on the high of the Dodgers’ pitching rotation, Drysdale missed a sport to take care of some private enterprise. Koufax pitched a no-hitter that day.
When instructed concerning the achievement, Drysdale had one query: “Did he win?”
The Dodgers had been three outs away from a mixed no-hitter Monday, then needed to cling on for a 3-1 win over the Colorado Rockies.
It was the second time in three days the Dodgers took a no-hitter into the ninth. They misplaced the opposite one.
Tyler Glasnow was sensible over seven no-hit innings, hanging out 11. Reliever Blake Treinen pitched an ideal eighth earlier than Ryan Ritter broke up the no-hitter by lining Tanner Scott’s third pitch to left subject for a double. The ball appeared catchable off the bat, however left fielder Alex Name turned the incorrect manner, costing him any probability to make a play.
Scott then retired the facet on two groundouts and a liner to 3rd baseman Max Muncy.
Mookie Betts’ tiebreaking two-run single within the seventh propelled the Dodgers to their eightieth win of the season.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto was one out away from a no-hitter in opposition to the Baltimore Orioles on Saturday when he gave up a house run to Jackson Holliday.
Yamamoto was pulled after 112 pitches and the bullpen gave up three extra runs in a 4-3 Dodgers loss.
Mookie Betts hits a two-run single within the seventh inning in the course of the Dodgers’ 3-1 win over the Rockies on Monday.
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Glasnow left after 105 pitches. He walked two. It was the second straight begin by which Glasnow hadn’t given up successful by no less than six innings.
Glasnow (2-3) struck out the facet within the first — though he wanted 18 pitches to do it — and once more within the sixth. In between, he gave up a second-inning run on Jordan Beck’s leadoff stroll, a stolen base and two lengthy outs, the second Kyle Farmer’s sacrifice fly to the left-field wall.
But for 5 innings Colorado starter Chase Dollander (2-12, 6.43 ERA) was virtually pretty much as good. The Dodgers didn’t get their first baserunner till the third inning and didn’t have successful till the fifth, when Michael Conforto led off with a single to left.
Dollander confronted simply three batters over the minimal earlier than leaving with an obvious harm after strolling Ben Rortvedt to start out the sixth. Reliever Juan Mejia got here on to stroll the primary batter he confronted. Two at-bats later, Freddie Freeman bounced a high-hopper over first baseman Kyle Farmer and down the right-field line for a tying double.
However Mejia escaped additional harm when he received Conforto to floor out with the bases loaded. Nonetheless, the one run was extra offense than the Dodgers gave Glasnow in his final two begins. Coming into Monday, the Dodgers averaged simply 3½ runs of help in Glasnow’s 14 earlier begins, lowest for any Dodger starter.
Within the seventh, Rockies reliever Angel Chivilli hit Andy Pages with a pitch with one out and after Rortvedt popped out, Ohtani doubled to proper, sending Pages to 3rd.
Betts adopted with a two-out, two-strike single, extending his streak of reaching base safely to 14 video games.
