Dodgers beat Rockies 8-7 in 11 innings on Rushing walk-off
The Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies 8-7 in 11 innings on Monday, July 6, 2026, in a wild Rockies-Dodgers series opener at Dodger Stadium. Dalton Rushing delivered a walk-off RBI single in the bottom of the 11th, giving Los Angeles its first extra-innings win of the season after blowing a three-run lead in the ninth.
It was the kind of late-night finish that both clubs had been building toward all year. Colorado nearly pulled off another comeback, while the Dodgers held on to push their MLB-best record to 60-32 and improve to 7-2 against the Rockies this season.
Key Takeaways
- The Dodgers won 8-7 in 11 innings, their first extra-innings game of the 2026 regular season.
- Dalton Rushing ended it with a walk-off RBI single after Los Angeles surrendered a three-run ninth-inning lead.
- Closer Tanner Scott took a blown save, forcing the Dodgers' bullpen into two extra frames.
- Colorado nearly completed another late rally, continuing a season-long pattern of eighth-inning-and-later scoring.
- Los Angeles enters Tuesday's rematch at 60-32 with Justin Wrobleski on the mound and a taxed relief corps.
How did the Rockies-Dodgers game turn into an 11-inning thriller?
According to Sports Illustrated, the Dodgers carried a comfortable edge into the late innings before the Rockies stormed back. Los Angeles held a three-run lead heading into the ninth, but Colorado rallied to force extra baseball.
That collapse turned a routine series opener into the Dodgers' first extra-innings contest of 2026. Rather than settle it in the 10th, both teams kept trading blows until Rushing singled home the winning run in the 11th.
The finish echoed warnings the Dodgers had heard all week. As True Blue LA noted, Colorado had just rallied to beat the San Francisco Giants 7-6 at home and nearly did the same against Los Angeles on Monday night.
Why should the Dodgers take Colorado's offense seriously?
On paper, the Rockies look beatable, especially against left-handed pitching. True Blue LA reported that Colorado entered the series with the worst weighted runs created plus in baseball against southpaws at 83.
But late-inning scoring tells a different story. The Rockies lead all of MLB with 126 runs from the eighth inning onward, a trend that showed up again when they erased that three-run deficit and pushed the game into extras.
Los Angeles still escaped with the win, but the message was clear: underestimating this lineup, even on the road, carries real risk for the bullpen.
What happens next in the Rockies-Dodgers series?
The drama did not end at midnight. Scott's blown save and the two bonus innings forced the Dodgers to lean on their relievers longer than planned, setting up a bullpen management test for Tuesday's game.
Justin Wrobleski gets the ball in the rematch, looking for his 11th win of a season in which he already accounts for 10 of the Dodgers' 60 victories. Sports Illustrated reported that Mookie Betts and Teoscar Hernandez will sit Tuesday, with Miguel Rojas at shortstop and Tommy Edman in left field.
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