Colorado Rockies vs Los Angeles Dodgers Box Score on Jun 23, 2017

The Sports Xchange
Jun 24, 2017

LOS ANGELES -- Justin Turner had three hits to improve his batting average to .392 and Alex Wood moved to 8-0 on the season as the Los Angeles Dodgers won their eighth straight game 6-1 over the Colorado Rockies.

Yasiel Puig crushed a solo home run in the fourth inning to extend the Dodgers' streak of consecutive games with a home run to 15. Shortstop Corey Seager had two hits, scored a run and had an RBI but left the game after two innings after tweaking his right hamstring.

The win moved Los Angeles' lead in the NL West to a season-high 2 1/2 games over the Rockies, who have lost three straight, and the Arizona Diamondbacks. The Dodgers have won 14 of their last 15 and the eight-game win streak is their longest since 2013. They've also won nine straight at home.

Wood lowered his season ERA to 1.86, allowing three hits, two of them soft, and walking two while striking out seven in six innings. Wood has allowed just five runs in his last seven starts, and has had seven or more strikeouts in five of them.

Wood and three relievers retired the last 19 Rockies.

Colorado starter Kyle Freeland (8-5) was touched for 10 hits and three walks in six innings.

Turner has only been slowed by a trip to the disabled list that cost him 19 games. He has a hit in 16 of his last 17 games and is hitting .440 during that run, including four doubles and four home runs. He has 23 multi-hit games this season.

The Dodgers got a run in the first inning against Freeland on singles by Seager and Turner and a sacrifice fly by Cody Bellinger.

The Rockies tied it in the second courtesy of a fielding gaffe. Catcher Tom Murphy hit a line drive that left fielder Franklin Gutierrez slow-played, allowing the ball to roll to the wall for a double and scoring Raimel Tapia from first.

Los Angeles scored three in the second but lost Seager in the process. The 2016 NL Rookie of the Year singled to right with two outs, scoring catcher Austin Barnes, but he grabbed his right hamstring taking second on the throw home.

Turner lined a single to center to score Seager and Bellinger doubled to right to score Turner to make it 4-1. Seager went to the clubhouse for examination and was removed from the game as a precaution.

His replacement in the lineup, Puig, hit a 445-foot solo home run to center in the fourth to make it 5-1. It was his 14th home run of the season but just his first against a left-handed pitcher.

NOTES: The Dodgers recalled RHP Ross Stripling (0-3, 4.00 ERA) from Triple-A Oklahoma City to replace Chris Hatcher (0-1, 4.66), who was placed on the 10-day disabled list with thoracic inflammation. He pitched in Thursday's win over the Mets, allowing a run, hit and walk. He had a 4.66 ERA in 2017. ... LHP Julio Urias, the Dodgers' top pitching prospect who was 5-2 in limited use last season, will undergo season-ending surgery Tuesday to repair damage to the anterior capsule on his left shoulder. The surgery has an estimated recovery time of 12-to-14 months. ... Rockies LHP Tyler Anderson was activated from the disabled list Thursday and pitched an inning of relief in the Rockies' loss to Arizona, his first relief appearance in his career. Anderson may start Sunday's series finale. ... RHP Carlos Estevez (2-0, 12.54) was optioned to Triple-A Albuquerque to make room for Anderson.