Max Muncy gets help from the rain, then hits a grand slam to lead Dodgers past hapless Rockies

Denver – The rain came out of nowhere. Likewise, it seems, made Max Muncy’s Infielnd Pop-up.

At the top of the sixth round at Coors Field Tuesday evening, Muncy was marble with two withdrawals and two runners on board when a sudden rain storm opened from a covered sky. In a few moments, rain leaves flowed. But while the fans dispersed to hide, the referees left the baton of bat.

It was then that, in a complete count, Muncy launched a pop-up up to the heaven on the first base line.

Under clear conditions, it would have been a routine outlet to end the Channel.

But this time, neither the first basic player of the Rockies Michael Toglia nor the second basic player Thairo Estrada could not locate the blur of leather by returning to earth.

While Muncy stopped in the first base and the teammates Shohei Ohtani and Dalton rushed came to trot through the plate, Toglia looked towards Estrada, who initially seemed to call the ball. But then, Estrada watched the Toglia with confusion, nor some exactly where the pop-up went. At the last second, the two rather dodged to shake, twist their arms around their heads. The ball landed between them, apparently surprising Toglia after falling from a few feet to its right.

In the score book, the game was a two -point single, representing the first points in a match that the Dodgers won 8-1 – with the help of a Grand Slam of Muncy’s victory at the top of the seventh.

But in reality, it was another example of the impotence of the rocks in this historically unhappy season – and a comical blow of luck that the dodgers were more than happy to take.

By entering this week’s trip to Colorado, manager Dave Roberts stressed the importance of stacking victories against a team of rocky on Pace to establish an MLB record for defeats in a season. He noted how it was part of a softer global section in the team calendar, the Dodgers in a series of 12 consecutive games against teams with lost records.

“You have to beat the teams you are supposed to beat,” said Roberts. “It’s like that.”

In the two Denver games this week, the Rockies helped this cause. On Monday, Toglia played three balls badly in a fourth round rally of six points for the Dodgers who catappered them to an opening victory of the series.

Tuesday’s blunder, however, was even more a blatant horror. Even Muncy seemed shocked as he rushed into the first base, looking in the canoe with a look of disbelief.

The next time Muncy arrived on the plate, he added to his total RBI in a more traditional way.

With the loaded bases and two in the seventh, the burning heating stroke lit a suspended cursor of 0 and 2 and launched his second Grand Slam in the last three games to the right field.

With his six points produced on Wednesday, Muncy has now led 42 points in her last 37 games.

The offensive production – which continued with an imposing home run by Michael Comforto in the eighth – has marked one of the few times this year that the dodgers provided Yoshinobu Yamamoto with great support. Only Wednesday, they equaled the eight points in total that they had scored during its last four departures this month.

This turned out to be sufficient for a night when the right -hander spun a well -necessary, bouncing jewel of the 5.23 era which he had in June entering the night with five goalless rounds which included a blow, a walk and six sticks to the stick.

The only thing that stopped Yamamoto was the rain, forcing him to make an early outing after a late and 27-minute delay that started immediately after Muncy’s pop-up. But at that time, the sudden showers had already done enough, helping the dodgers to take an advance that they would not abandon on a routine pop-up, the inner field has lost sight of.