Bellinger slams Rox, Colorado drops set in LA

On Sunday afternoon in Los Angeles, the Colorado Rockies lost a game to the Dodgers that looked an awful lot like the way their season has gone in general.

They hung around with the best in the National League for the first stretch but fell apart in the middle and never recovered in a 7-4 loss that also dropped the series.

Colorado took the lead in the first as the hot-hitting Garrett Hampson remained so and cracked his second hole run of the set.

Hyung-Jin Ryu, who has some of the best numbers in the NL, tightened it up considerably after that.

He and Rockies starter Antonio Senzatela would, other than the Hampson homer, trade zeroes through the first four innings.

But once again, a big inning for Los Angeles swung the game dramatically in their favor.

It began with the worst of omens – a home run surrendered to the opposing pitcher. Things went from bad to worse for Senzatela when Joc Pederson, Gavin Lux, and Enrique Hernandez loaded the bases.

Still a pitch away from escaping the inning with a tie, Bud Black went to lefty Jake McGee who gave up his career-high 11th home run of the season to Cody Bellinger.

The Grand Salami put the Dodgers suddenly way ahead at 5-1.

Sam Hilliard made it a game again in the seventh with a two-run jack, his sixth round-tripper of the season. He was only called up a few weeks ago, mind you.

But even that brief respite was answered by the Dodgers in the bottom half of the inning on Corey Seager’s 18th home run of the year.

Wil Smith gave them one more insurance run with a solo blast in the ninth to make the final score a 7-4 win for the boys in blue.