DENVER -- Mickey Moniak’s seventh-inning, two-run homer off the Dodgers’ Blake Treinen flipped the score to the Rockies’ favor on Sunday afternoon.
Then something unusual and welcome occurred.
The Rockies kept scoring, first with Tyler Freeman’s run-scoring single in the seventh, then with a three-run eighth that featured Edouard Julien’s third hit of the game, a two-run single. Instead of another tight and risky game, it turned into an unusually comfortable 9-6 victory at Coors Field.
The Rockies had gone 3-5 in one-run games, including Saturday night’s 4-3 win over the Dodgers. Colorado also had been walked off twice on big home runs in San Diego.
This time, however, the Rockies added on and ended with 15 hits against the defending World Series champs. The high-water mark this year is 17 hits on March 30 against the defending American League champion Blue Jays.
The back-to-back wins mark the first time the Rockies have beaten L.A. in consecutive games in a single season since Colorado won three straight from Oct. 2-4, 2022.