Two Games - Dodgers Bats Stay Hot In 7 - 1 Win Over Colorado

Could this end up being the beginning of something?

Dodgers Manager Don Mattingly tap-danced round the question.

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Outfielder Andre Ethier reported they couldn't know.

First baseman James Loney smiled.

"You certainly not know until the subsequent game, right?" Loney said.

You have got to be able to pardon their reluctance that will produce just about any striking declarations. So far, that is a nasty period with the Dodgers.

But you have to start somewhere as well as Dodgers include received their continue two games , the best recent a new 7-1 thumping in the Colorado Rockies on Monday.

In equally games, they will pitched well, which usually had not been a surprise. In both games, that they hit, which was.

Ethier and Loney each and every drove in about three owns Monday, because the Dodgers relocated that will within just one particular success of their best succeeding talent belonging to the season.

Loney is on exactly what costs to a particular tear, seeing that his residence operate ended up being his second in four days. He click one particular residence run within his preceding 51 games.

The Dodgers, exactly who improved that will all 5 video games below .500, have scored 15 extends into their past a couple of games. The just time period many people obtained as numerous runs within consecutive game titles appeared to be when they used the wind flow recommended to their backs at Chicago's Wrigley Field around April.

The inheritor involving this rise Monday was Chad Billingsley, who presented that Rockies to 1 go beyond seven innings irrespective of stopping a career-high 11 hits.

In every single inning Billingsley pitched with the exception of the particular first, the leadoff man reached base.

"I been able to create pitches as soon as I needed to," he said.

The run support Billingsley provides attained with his continue a couple game titles he as well won his previous begin has been a delightful switch from a recent five-start winless extend in which he / she posted a 2.91 earned-run average.

The Dodgers scored some operates inside the 3 rd inning, your first a couple of on the bases-loaded solitary by simply Ethier. Matt Kemp drove in Jamey Carroll on the sacrifice fly that's slipped by converging outfielders Carlos Gonzalez and Dexter Fowler, and Kemp have scored for a solo to core domain through Loney.

Billingsley lost the battle a fourth-inning property manage to Ty Wigginton that minimize that result in 4-1, women and men Dodgers responded with three owns in the actual fifth inning.

Ethier singled throughout Carroll, that directed journey inning which has a triple, plus Loney implemented having a residence set you back perfect field.

The Dodgers accomplished together with 11 hits, contributing towards seventeen they experienced the previous day.

Loney seemed to be several to get four. Ethier, Carroll and Rafael Furcal every had two hits. Jason Hammel lost the battle seven runs and 10 hits in 42/3 innings.

"When everyone's hitting, fat loss frequency around anyone," Ethier said. "If everyone's hitting, how do you decide who seem to going after as well as which you don't choose after? When everybody's hitting, them creates chances in-front plus driving you. That's why hitting's contagious."

In that four game titles Ethier possesses enjoyed because being used outside the lineup for an entire three-game series with Houston, he could be eight regarding 14. He reach .079 from the 11 game titles prior to this collection resistant to the Astros.

The Rockies started the season 11-2 nonetheless include claimed simply 14 of their very last 39 games. They have lost 6 months time with their past eleven games.

Another fire

The identical Dodger Stadium reserve-level hard drive place that captured fireplace Saturday evening caught fireplace early Monday.

About 5 a.m. Monday, there were a "small rekindling" on the hearth from Saturday night, Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman Erik Scott said. The blaze had been put out inside minutes.

The fire Saturday night occurred as you move Dodgers ended up using that Florida Marlins. Scott said the criticism division is usually analyzing the cause of that fires.