J.D. Martinez had four hits, including a home run, and the Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 14-3 on Thursday night after a weather delay.
was delayed for 1 hour and 50 minutes while members of the Coors Field grounds crew shoveled piles of hail from a late-afternoon storm into wheelbarrows and used leaf blowers to dry the remaining moisture from the outfield grass.
“We were all saying, ‘We’re here, might as well go for it,’ first baseman Freddie Freeman said. “Two hours of rain — I don’t know if you call that rain, it was like snow pretty much. They were talking about how we might have to make it up on our one [common] off day and play, like, 20 days in a row, so we were all ready to roll. The bats came out hot.”
But the Dodgers loaded the bases with no outs in the top of the fourth against Rockies starter Chase Anderson on Heyward’s leadoff double to right-center and walks to Miguel Vargas and James Outman.Freeman, with chants of “Freddie! Freddie!” filling the visiting park, lined an RBI single to right for a 4-3 lead.
Barnes grounded out, but Betts walked, Freeman lined a two-run single to right for a 10-3 lead, and Muncy followed with an RBI single to right for an 11-3 lead.
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