Tyler Glasnow Weathers Cold, Leads Dodgers To Win At Colorado

DENVER — The hottest squad successful baseball, nan coldest crippled successful franchise history.

And a California kid connected nan mound, battling nan inclement elements, this clip beating nan 35-degree chill.

Last April, a deluge successful Philadelphia derailed nan Dodgers and Tyler Glasnow successful a frustrating conclusion against nan Phillies.

On Friday, successful his first crippled astatine Coors Field, nan Dodgers’ towering right-hander proved his head Dave Roberts right: “He’s grown exponentially. I don’t spot that these conditions are going to impact him today.”

Dodger Max Muncy follows nan formation of his solo location tally disconnected Colorado Rockies starting pitcher Tomoyuki Sugano Friday successful Denver.

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Indeed not. The erstwhile Santa Clarita Hart High standout sewage nan amended of nan upwind and nan Colorado Rockies astatine Coors Field. And his Dodgers teammates put runs connected nan committee for illustration they were logs successful nan fireplace, scoring astatine slightest 1 tally each inning until nan sixth inning en way to a breezy 7-1 victory.

Sparked by Max Muncy’s leadoff location runs successful nan 2nd and 5th innings, nan basking hitters up and down nan Dodgers’ lineup sapped nan suspense from nan first of a four-game wraparound series.

Most of nan crowd of 28,783 loved to spot it. Thousands of dutifully bundled Dodgers supporters chanted and shouted arsenic their boys successful bluish notched their 15th triumph successful 19 games, maintaining momentum successful nan first crippled of a 13-consecutive-game stretch.

Colorado right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano took nan nonaccomplishment aft leaving nan crippled aft nan 4th inning pinch nan Rockies trailing 5-0, having fixed up 5 runs connected 9 hits and thrown 91 pitches (just 51 of them for strikes).

As nan grounds unit useful to clear snowfall while Dodgers 3rd baseman Santiago Espinal tosses a snowball astatine a coach earlier nan squad played nan Rockies Friday successful Denver.

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Conversely, Glasnow (2-0) sewage nan win, going 7 innings and yielding conscionable 1 tally and 2 hits, striking retired 7 and stepping 2 connected 92 pitches. The Rockies (7-13) scored only successful nan 4th inning, erstwhile Troy Johnston’s groundout pushed crossed Mickey Moniak to make it 5-1.

The Dodgers’ first tally came connected overmuch much quickly, erstwhile Will Smith’s one-out sacrifice alert brought location Shohei Ohtani, who’d led disconnected nan crippled pinch a double — he went 2 for 3 disconnected Sugano connected Friday, making nan Dodgers’ superstar six for 7 each clip against his countryman.

Smith’s first RBI was his ninth this season, successful his 35th crippled astatine nan famously hitter-friendly park, though he still had different successful him.

Muncy’s 434-foot location tally successful nan 2nd made it 2-0 and his double down nan statement successful nan 3rd drove successful Smith, who’d reached connected a broken-bat azygous that sent Roberts scurrying successful nan dugout. That gave nan Dodgers their 3rd tally earlier Andy Pages’ sacrifice brought location Freddie Freeman to make it 4-0.

The Dodgers pushed it to 5-0 successful nan 4th inning erstwhile Smith singled to near to people Kyle Tucker, who’d doubled disconnected nan halfway section wall.

And past Muncy led disconnected nan 5th pinch his 2nd solo shot, giving him his 21st profession multi-homer game, and his 4th astatine Coors Field. After Alex Freeland deed a sacrifice alert to near to bring location Pages, nan Dodgers led 7-1.

Hyeseong Kim was 1 of 3 Dodgers who didn’t score, but nan speedy South Korean reached connected a azygous and a locomotion and doubly stole second.

For each nan contributors keeping lukewarm up and down nan Dodgers’ lineup, nan members of nan Rockies’ crushed unit were nan existent heroes of Friday’s game. They plowed nan outfield writer and shoveled distant nan mates inches of snowfall that piled up betwixt 11 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. to hole a playable section by gametime astatine 6:40 p.m.

In nan 2nd crippled of nan four-game bid Saturday, Dodgers right-hander Emmet Sheehan (2-0, 6.60) is expected to look nan Rockies’ right-hander Ryan Feltner (1-1, 7.30).