Rockies vs. Dodgers Game Highlights (4/4/23) | MLB Highlights

Gets ready for his second start of the season began this homestand got the win against Arizona on Thursday and he'll make his second start of the year against Colorado. Jonathan Daza back in that center field spot tonight and this is down the line and it's under the glove. Very similar to what we saw with Max Muncy last night as he was unable to get the backhand down and it'll go as a double I believe for Daza. So that is a double for Daza. Here's Chris Bryant well-located fastball there though to finish off Bryant. I got a little help from Chris Bryant but you're right in an awful lot to slow him down low with some breaking stuff and then top of the strike zone probably be called a ball but close enough to tempt him. So here is Krohn with two gone is popped up on the infield. Will Smith stepping around the bat calls off Freeman and makes the catch. So one out double but nothing to show for it for the Rockies. Hermann Marquez is an all-star in twenty twenty one followed that with his worst year last year. And so he's looking for a bounceback season bouncing ball basic center field. That's how the night begins for the Dodgers. Mookie Betts for the leadoff single. What a start it's been for Will Smith. He's one of the only guys that has struggled against Marquez just one for fourteen who fires one. And Smith lifts a fly ball to left it sends pro far back at the track at the wall. Smith goes deep again. Third game in a row. Big time trajectory on that one Will Smith must have gotten stronger in the offseason. There's a different sound now when the ball leaves his bat. So the Dodgers on the board quickly to run home run in the first inning for Will Smith. First time in his career he's gone deep three games in a row one two to Muncie is cracked the left center field pro far coming on. Good effort but can't get it. Muncie's got a base hit. Max will take that this one he hits pretty doggone good and catches a break little leather but definitely a hit third one of this first inning for the Dodgers and it'll bring up J.D. Martinez one two on the ground is short. Tovar goes to second. That's one that's two. And so a double play finishes off this first inning. But Will Smith in the third game in a row goes deep Ryan McMahon the hitter now left on left with Urias. This ball is driven a center field and deep and it is over the head of Altman and it'll be a double. That is a real high quality at bat from Ryan McMahon against one of the best in the game man at second after the double. And here's Elias Diaz. Rocky's catcher grounds one softly left side picked up by Chris Taylor and a low throw is dug out by Freeman Ellen Trejo back in there today playing third base and striking him out. Rios gets out of the inning two innings two doubles for the Rockies but the runner stranded both times back to top of the order jerks and profile rounded back to the pitcher first time up that's through the right side Tovar will stop at second base wise move got the stop sign from Warren Schaefer and the Rockies have two knocks to begin the third inning with Daza coming up does a beautiful but this could be a hit throw to first dot in time bases loaded for Chris Bryant. All it takes is a slight hesitation if Arias gets this it's going to have to get the out at first but he thinks once he's going to come get it so he stops on it once he's like wait I thought you had it you've got it I've got it who's got it. Well Daza has got it with a base hit three and two on Bryant nowhere to put him here it comes strike three call. Like Bryant was caught guessing in between there and a bad time for that leaning out to think this could be a change up it comes out of that same height and then all of a sudden it's cutting in on his hands first out there for Rios. Now C.J. Krohn cracks his bat and a bounce at a third Muncy to second one Betts to force double Rockies squander of bases loaded. Nobody out chance Max with a redeemer a twin killing to get out of the inning to nothing and a Will Smith homerun. Here we are bottom three. Hayward hit his first Dodger homerun last night and he might have just hit number two. You bet he did lead off shot here in the third. That thing went screaming off of the barrel driving into the park today. Listen to Rogan and Rodney and Fred Rogan has caught on to this resurgence of Jason Hayward. They're trying to nickname this season for him thinking that it's really going to be a big year and I'll bet you they'll talk about it again tomorrow. One twelve off the bat you go to the fourth inning and the Louries Montero leads it off sports runs like that saying that's a strikeout. You would not in the box at the eighth second mark. Did they throw the ball around Julio wanted to Montero down on strikes. It's a fourth strikeout for Urias Ryan McMahon who doubled in his first strike three caught here. That's your old traditional backwards. OK and that's number five for Urias halfway to Jumbo Jax Julio looking for his first clean inning of the game. It's kind of the same format as opening day. Sharp grounder and a nice play here by Muncie. I throw Freeman goes up to get it and ends the inning first one two three and into the game for Urias Will Smith with a home run in the first inning. Jason Hayward with a home run in the third. Here's Max Muncy to lead off five ball right field towards the corner. There's his fourth against Hermann Marquez. There's the Dodgers third of the night for Zip. It's only game six. But when you're hitting 063 and you don't have a home run that one feels really good. Max open for about thirty four more of those. That is a nice swing. Well connected perfect trajectory. Days fair five of the first 11 for the Rockies reached in this first game but he's retired ten straight jammed him in a pop up and foul ground at first. Freddie Freeman is there and that's the inning in the palm of his glove. Six games for Julio Urias. He retires the final 11 that he faces similar to what he did on his opening day start. He's in position to get another win. Fifty three pitches through three innings but then settled down. Pop up short right Betts is out Hayward's on Oh boy made the catch and gets to his feet and too much of this last couple of days between Vargas and now Mookie. Good to see him smiling though. And Pierce Johnson might be the first guy that we see here at Dodger Stadium this year calling his own pitches. He's wearing the pitch count pitch receiver on his belt and he will let the catcher Diaz know what he wants to throw. Mookie Betts that's cranked on a line to center it does over can't get there and it scoots by him. That's all Sauter into second position with a lead off double. Yeah glad to see Mookie up at the plate. I'm glad to see him hit it hard but watching him run from first to second just kind of striding it out because once he sees the ball drop he knows he's going to make it easily. But you can see there's a little hitch in his giddy up right there. Smith is one for three. Johnson said at the chest Smith drives the ball to center field Daza on his horse not going to get there. And Will Smith's monster start after this season continues. That's headed for the plate looking just fine. He'll score Dodgers up five nothing. So we go to the ninth inning with the Rockies trailing the Dodgers five to nothing. Chris Bryant Alito off the one and it's a six game hitting streak now for Bryant. That's going to run all the way to the wall. So Chris will have a double bring up Montero. This is line to deep right and Hayward has it go off his glove Bryant around third he's getting a green light from Warren Schaefer throw will not come to the plate and it'll be a run scoring double for Montero third RBI of the season for Montero Venice the Rockies making the Dodgers uneasy in the ninth and he hits Diaz hopefully Elias is OK. That loads the bases and it brings the tying run to the plate in the air to left field. Outman makes a catch with throw toward the plate is not going to get Montero so it's five to two to the Rockies with two here in the ninth and it's going to be up to Charlie Blackman who comes up representing the tying run himself. Blackman grounds it along first Freeman's there Phillips to the bag. That's the ballgame Dodgers sweep the two game series and they go four and two on the season opening homestand.