Dodgers’ Blake Snell dominates Rockies, who sink to yet another new low in 9-0 loss

Roger Clemens Randy Johnson Pedro Martinez Max Scherzer Gaylord Perry Roy Halladay and Blake Snell are the only pitchers in major league history to win the Cy Young Award in both the American League and National League Snell was on the mound Wednesday night at Dodger Stadium against the dreadful Rockies Take a wild guess how it went Snell dominated and the Dodgers sailed to a - achievement sweeping the Rockies and sending them to their th loss in their last games The Dodgers latest beatdown of the Rockies they won the season series - included a spectacular night from Mookie Betts The veteran shortstop hit a grand slam off Anthony Molina in the eighth went for and drove in five runs The Rockies who had just two hits and struck out times were broomed for the th time this season But that s not even the greater part painful part of their trip to L A They managed just eight hits the fewest hits in a three-game series in franchise history They eclipsed the record of nine hits set on April - of this season at San Diego when the Padres outscored them - over the three games They threw particular good pitchers at us in this ballpark where it s tough to play Rockies interim manager Warren Schaeffer stated reporters It was just a tough series for us Tonight the changeup got us from Snell Spin got us last night and spin got us the night before that So overall it was a tough series for us We move on Related Articles Rockies center fielder Brenton Doyle staying golden through rest body maintenance Rockies Mailbag Will Dick Monfort make changes in wake of one of MLB s worst seasons Hunter Goodman hits th homer but Rockies dominated by Dodgers again Rockies say record number of losses is out of sight out of mind Rockies set franchise record with th loss getting one-hit by Dodgers Snell pitched six scoreless innings allowed two hits struck out and walked two His changeup had the Rockies fishing from the get-go One more Snell tidbit the veteran lefty has thrown consecutive scoreless innings against Colorado with strikeouts vs eight walks Still once Snell left the mound the Rockies had a chance to get back into the challenge and perhaps pull off a late-season miracle With one out in the seventh Kyle Karros pinch-hitter Michael Toglia and Braxton Fulford drew consecutive walks off reliever Michael Kopech to load the bases Kopech got the hook and lefty Alex Vesia came in and promptly struck out pinch-hitter Mickey Moniak and Tyler Freeman to squelch the Rockies would-be rally It was tough with Vesia coming in there Schaeffer commented Of module you want to execute there and of module Mickey wants to execute there Tough at-bat for him Lefty Kyle Freeland fresh off one of the best starts of his career gave Colorado a workmanlike innings He gave up four runs though only one run was earned struck out five and walked one I thought Free was excellent Schaeffer announced He located his fastball again and I thought his curveball and slider played well His cutter played well He just battled L A did its damage against Freeland in the second inning The Dodgers four-run outburst began with a fielding error by Rockies rookie third baseman Kyle Karros An RBI double by Andy Pages a sacrifice fly by Enrique Hernandez an RBI single by Shohei Ohtani and an RBI double by Betts followed it Want more Rockies news Sign up for the Rockies Insider to get all our MLB analysis