Dodgers put things right behind 2-homer nights from Max Muncy, Dalton Rushing

DENVER — Denver Cannabis Week 2026 culminated with the Mile High 420 Festival in downtown Denver on Monday. Out at the Red Rocks Amphitheater, high priest Snoop Dogg performed with Ice Cube for the occasion.

But at Coors Field, the fog lifted and the Dodgers sobered up after back-to-back losses, earning a split of their four-game series with a 12-3 thumping of the Colorado Rockies on Monday night.

The Dodgers hit five home runs in the game, including Max Muncy’s second two-homer game of the series and Dalton Rushing’s second multi-homer game in just seven starts this season.

“I think we needed to bounce back, especially after the last couple days. We didn’t play good baseball the last two days,” said infielder Miguel Rojas who had three hits, including the other home run – and his 1,000th major-league hit. “(Justin) Wrobleski attacking the strike zone was really important for us. It’s never easy to play here in Colorado, especially as a pitcher. When you come here, pitches don’t do the same thing. It’s really tough to play in this kind of environment. We all know it.

“Taking two out of four here, not ideal for us. But obviously it’s a long season, and we gotta respect the opponent too.”

They didn’t show that respect to Rockies starter Jose Quintana, scoring early and often against him and reliever Tanner Gordon.

Muncy and Rojas started it with back-to-back home runs in the second inning. It was the first back-to-back home runs by the Dodgers (who lead the majors in home runs) this season.

His home run was the first of three hits in the game for Rojas – the 999th, 1,000th and 1,001st of his MLB career. The milestone hit – a single through the left side of the infield – prompted Rojas to pump his fist as he ran to first base and point to the sky. Rojas’ father died earlier this month.

“Coors Field for me is always going to hold a special place,” said Rojas who made his first major-league start and got the first of those 1,001 hits here. “This was the first clubhouse that I ever walked into as a major leaguer. And I got the opportunity to make my debut here with Kersh on the mound.

“I will never forget that moment, when I got my first hit on a rainy day at Coors Field. And now I got the chance to say that I connect for hit 1,000 here. … This one for me is something that I’m really going to cherish for the rest of my life.”

The Dodgers kept passing the hits around the rest of the night, collecting 15 while scoring in seven of the nine innings.

In the third inning, Shohei Ohtani led off with a single, extending his on-base streak to 52 games (the third-longest by a Dodger since 1900). Alex Call followed with a single and Ohtani scored when Karros booted Will Smith’s ground ball to third base. Call scored when Hernandez bounced into a double play.

The Dodgers loaded the bases for Ohtani with one out in the fourth inning. He lined into an inning-ending double play – but Quintana was called for a balk. A run scored, the double play was erased and Ohtani got another chance. He grounded out and nothing more came of it.

Muncy led off the sixth with a single. The Dodgers loaded the bases again with two outs when the Rockies intentionally walked Ohtani. Call worked a five-pitch walk to force in another run.

Singles by Andy Pages and Muncy set up a run-scoring sacrifice bunt by Rojas in the seventh. Rushing – getting the start at first base with Freddie Freeman on paternity leave – led off the eighth inning with his first home run of the night. Teoscar Hernandez turned around an 0-for-12 series with an RBI single in the eighth, leaving Smith as the only player in the Dodgers’ lineup who didn’t get a hit Monday.

Muncy hit his second home run of the night in the ninth inning. He was on base five times Monday – two homers, two singles and a walk – and scored four runs. Rushing made it seven home runs in just 27 at-bats this season with his second of the night later that inning.

“I was doing what I wanted to do with my mechanics,” Muncy said. “Like I said the other day, when I’m doing what I want to do, the results have been good. It’s just trying to find the consistency of getting the mechanics to work every single day. You keep putting in the work every day, that’s part of the process. You just got to trust it.

“It was a good weekend.”

It has been a good month for Justin Wrobleski.

He opened the season as the swingman on the Dodgers’ pitching staff. With Blake Snell and Gavin Stone injured (and River Ryan being eased back from Tommy John surgery), the final spot when the Dodgers eventually went to a six-man rotation fell to Wrobleski

He is quickly proving to be one of the most reliable members of that rotation.

He allowed a first-inning run Monday, then scattered eight hits over seven innings. He only struck out three but got 10 flyball outs in the expansive Coors Field outfield and did what every fielder wants from a pitcher – worked fast and threw strikes.

“I’m going out there trying to do the same thing every time, and that’s fill the zone and create contact and see what happens,” Wrobleski said.

That approach is working. In three starts this month, Wrobleski has allowed just two runs on 12 hits in 20 innings.

“I’m going out there with the same mindset, no matter what my role is, because at the end of the day, you can’t control where you’re starting, you can’t control if you’re relieving,” Wrobleski said. “I don’t control that. I just control that when I get the ball, I’m trying to do my job, which is, you know, throw strikes and get outs.”