Arenado’s HR in 16th helps Rockies beat Dodgers 5-4

Give them a lot of credit. “It was a long game”.

Records were also established for combined players used (58) and pitchers (24). This one took 5 hours and 23 minutes to complete. It was not the prettiest RBI, but it was the first of Barnes’ career and it tied the game.

“It’s part of the game”.

“It was a big win tonight”, Kershaw said.

Mat Latos (4-10) made his first career relief appearance, striking out Carlos Gonzalez before Arrenado drove the right-hander’s next pitch into the pavilion seats just to the right of center field. But the inning could have played out differently had Seager simply held the ball after fielding LeMahieu’s chopper.

It got to be weird baseball. “It was a strange game”. Arenado and Morneau opened with singles to left, Arenado stopping at second.

He goes after it for a couple of seconds before realizing that he was not wrestling a fellow fan for the ball, but rather the Dodgers $154 million first baseman. And the show was on. You should let me know!

Turner and the Dodgers were ticked that Rusin, who employs an abbreviated windup, was unfairly quick pitching – delivering to the batter without warning.

“They’re still learning me, and I’m still learning them”, Seager said of the opposing pitchers he’s faced.

After the inning, with Turner on the field for defense, he barked toward Rockies manager Walt Weiss in the dugout. Arenado was in the middle of the infield with a shift in place. Dodgers manager Don Mattingly refused to commit to replacing rookie SS Corey Seager in the starting lineup when SS Jimmy Rollins (jammed right knuckle) returns.

The Rockies, meanwhile, were gripping to a lead. In the fifth, Turner’s RBI double to left gave Los Angeles a 2-1 advantage. “It couldn’t get much worse in those first at-bats, in that last at-bat, I was looking for a pitch-up, and he threw me a pitch up”.

Gray ran into some trouble in the second after an Andre Ethier single followed by a double from Corey Seager.

Kershaw (14-6) won his ninth consecutive decision allowing just one run on three scattered hits, with five strikeouts in seven innings.

“I can barely remember it now”, Rusin said. And once again, in the rain.

The Dodgers tied the game in the seventh on a sacrifice fly by Chris Heisey and pinch-hit single by Austin Barnes; three Rockies converged on that ball but it fell between them.

Anderson has gone at least six innings in 16 of his 27 starts in 2015 and given up three or less runs in all 16 of those games. And Arenado finished with team-high three hits. And yet Kershaw and Arrieta aren’t close to leading the majors in ERA; Zack Greinke has a 1.61 ERA this season, which represents one of the best showings in the modern era. And In the 16th, after Gonzalez fouled a ball hard off his foot and hobbled to the dugout, Weiss was out of position players. 13 on the mound and one (Jason Gurka) to play right field in the bottom of the 16th.

“You’re trying to win a game and do everything you can to win a game”, he said.