Rushing Walks It Off in 11 as Dodgers Survive Colorado's Stunning Comeback

Dalton Rushing singled to center in the 11th inning to score T. Hernández and give Los Angeles an 8-7 win over Colorado — capping a game that looked completely over before it spectacularly wasn't. Cole Carrigg's two-run double in the ninth swung the win probability from 87% in LA's favor all the way down to 24%, turning a comfortable Dodger lead into a three-inning survival act.

For five innings, this looked like a Shohei Ohtani highlight reel with some baseball attached. Ohtani homered to left center — 379 feet — in the third to put LA up 2-1, then blew the game open in the fourth with a two-run single to center that made it 6-1. He finished 3-for-4 with a home run, 4 RBI, and a run scored. Kyle Freeland absorbed the damage, allowing 9 hits and 6 earned runs across 5 innings. By the time the sixth inning ended, Colorado trailed 6-3 and the math looked grim.

Then the ninth happened. Ezequiel Tovar — who had already gone deep to left (393 feet) in the fifth to keep Colorado breathing — scored on a Karros double to make it 4-6. Two batters later, Carrigg doubled to center, scoring Castro and Sullivan to tie the game at six. The Dodgers challenged the call on Goodman at the plate, and the call was overturned — but it didn't matter, because the damage was done. Win probability had cratered from 87% to 24% in a single at-bat. Colorado then took the lead in the 10th on a McCarthy groundout that scored Carrigg, who had reached on a walk and appeared to be everywhere on this night — finishing 3-for-5 with 2 RBI and 3 runs scored. LA answered immediately when a fielding error by the Colorado second baseman allowed Pages to score and Betts to reach safely, knotting it at seven.

The Dodgers finally ended it in the 11th when Rushing — who went 3-for-5 with 2 runs scored himself — singled to center to plate T. Hernández. It looks like the story of the night was less about Ohtani's dominance and more about a Dodger team that had to be rescued from its own bullpen and a Colorado lineup that refused to quit. Eric Lauer gave LA six innings of three-run ball, and Edgardo Henriquez threw two scoreless frames to bridge the gap, but the late-game chaos was real and the margin was razor-thin. For Colorado, this one will sting — Carrigg and Tovar gave them every opportunity to steal it, and they nearly did.