Rockies beat Dodgers again, sparked by Mickey Moniak's two-run homer

Patrick Saunders, The Denver Post on Apr 19, 2026

Published in Baseball

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DENVER — The times might be a-changin’ at Coors Field.

Sparked by Mickey Moniak’s two-run homer in the seventh and a 15-hit attack, the Colorado Rockies ripped the Los Angeles Dodgers, 9-6, on a perfect spring Sunday in front of a crowd of 42,627.

For the second straight game, it was Colorado, not the two-time defending World Series champions, that delivered when it mattered. The Rockies beat the Dodgers 4-3 on Saturday night before a sellout crowd of 47,925.

The Rockies’ seventh-inning rally began with a leadoff double by Edouard Julien off right-hander Blake Treinen. Up stepped Moniak, who clobbered Treinen’s first-pitch sweeper 428 feet. A double by Hunter Goodman and an RBI single by Tyler Freeman gave the Rockies a two-run cushion.

Naturally, there was some LoDo drama.

Los Angeles’ Andy Pages and Hyeseong Kim singled in the eighth off reliever Jimmy Herget, and Alex Freeland blasted a ball to deep center field. But Brenton Doyle, inserted for defensive purposes, ran the ball down for the final out.

The ninth was a nail-biter. Shohei Ohtani led off with a ground-rule double off Victor Vodnik and scored on Will Smith’s single. The Dodgers packed the bases on an infield hit by Max Muncy and a walk by Vodnik. Pinch-hitter Daulton Rushing’s groundout scored a run, but Ryan Ward flied out to Troy Johnston in right field, who made a diving catch to close out Colorado’s win.

Colorado bought some much-needed insurance with its three-run eighth. They needed it. The big hit was a two-run, bases-loaded single by Julien, who went 3 for 5 with three RBIs.

L.A. took a short-lived 4-3 lead against right-handed reliever Antonio Senzatela, who allowed his first run of the season in six appearances.

Right-hander Michael Lorenzen delivered a workmanlike, five-inning start for the Rockies. The fact that he pitched five innings and left with the game tied 3-3 was key. Lorenzen was tagged for seven hits, walked one and struck out three.

The Dodgers scored two off Lorenzen in the third on a double by Kim, an RBI single by Alex Freeland and an RBI double by Ohtani. The double extended Ohtani’s on-base streak to 51 consecutive games, moving him past “Wee” Willie Keeler for third all-time in Dodgers franchise history (since 1900). Only Hall of Famer Duke Snider (58 games in 1954) and Shawn Green (53 in 2000) are ahead of Ohtani.

Rookie first baseman TJ Rumfield drove in Colorado’s first run with a single in the fourth, and Colorado tied the game, 3-3, in the fifth on a 448-foot solo homer to left by Kyle Karros and an RBI single by Julien to score Jake McCarthy, who doubled.

The Dodgers and Rockies play the final game of the four-game series on Monday night at Coors.

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