Shohei Ohtani hit two home runs and finished with four hits, Max Muncy also went deep and singled, and the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 11-5 in Denver on Monday night for just their second win in their last eight road games.
Andy Pages and Freddie Freeman had three hits apiece to back a strong outing from starter Blake Snell.
Snell (1-1) gave up a run on just two hits but walked three in his six innings in his second start since coming off the injured list. He struck out five.
The Dodgers took a 1-0 lead on Mookie Betts’ RBI double in the second inning, and then padded the lead in the third against Rockies right-hander Tomoyuki Sugano.
With one out, Ohtani, Freeman and Pages hit consecutive singles and Muncy followed with his 25th home run of the season — a three-run shot to make it 5-0.
Colorado mounted a rally in the bottom of the third against Snell. The lefty walked Adael Amador, Brett Sullivan and Ezequiel Tovar to load the bases with no outs. Jake McCarthy grounded into a forceout to drive in Amador but Snell got Jordan Beck on a short flyout to left and fanned Cole Carrigg to limit the damage.
Los Angeles got the run back on Ohtani’s solo homer leading off the fifth, and Betts drove in another run with a groundout later in the inning. Sugano got the final out of the inning to end his night.
Sugano (12-6) allowed seven runs — six earned — on seven hits in his five innings.
The Dodgers put it away in the sixth inning against reliever Juan Mejia. Tommy Edman led off with a single and was at third with two outs when Ohtani crushed his second home run of the night and 29th of the season, a 452-foot blast to center field.
Freeman kept the inning going with a double and scored on a single by Pages.
The Rockies got a run in the seventh on Sullivan’s sacrifice fly and Freeman answered with an RBI double in the eighth inning. Colorado tacked on three more in the ninth before Edwin Diaz got the final out.
