The Los Angeles Dodgers hoped their sweep of the New York Mets put their struggling offense in the rearview but against the Colorado Rockies on Friday night, the bats fell silent again. The Rockies won 4-1.
Colorado starter Dakota Hudson managed to only allow one run and four hits in seven innings. He entered the contest with a 1-7 record and a 5.54 ERA in 10 starts and did not throw a pitch harder than 91.6 mph against the Dodgers.“The sinker-baller is sort of an outlier now in baseball,”“It’s , and it just seemed like he was putting the ball on the ground, getting us to roll over, missing the barrel. We couldn’t really muster anything against him tonight.
The Dodgers had plenty of opportunities to score. In the eighth inning, they loaded the bases with no outs and sent the top of the lineup to the plate.“Bases loaded, no outs … it was setting up to be a good spot for us,”The Big Three combined to go hitless with one walk in 11 at-bats, 10 of them against Hudson.Maren Angus-Coombs was born in Los Angeles and raised in Nashville, Tenn. She is a graduate of Middle Tennessee State and has been a sports writer since 2008.