Rockies halt Dodgers’ momentum with walk-off win

Ezequiel Tovar doubled and scored on Warming Bernabel’s single in the bottom of the ninth inning, giving the Colorado Rockies a 4-3 win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday in Denver.

Tovar also homered to help Colorado end a 10-game losing streak against Los Angeles. Six of those games were this year.

Dodgers reliever Justin Wrobleski (4-5) retired Jordan Beck on a fly ball to start the ninth, but Tovar’s blooper to right fell for a double. Bernabel followed with his single to center.

Victor Vodnik (4-3) pitched a perfect top of the ninth and Brenton Doyle had two hits for the Rockies, who have won four straight and six of the past seven.

Shohei Ohtani and Freddie Freeman had two hits apiece for the Dodgers, who were coming off a three-game weekend sweep of the San Diego Padres that moved them back into first place in the National League West.

The Dodgers took a 2-0 lead in the second inning. Alex Call and Miguel Rojas began the frame with singles, and both moved up on a wild pitch by Kyle Freeland. Call scored on Dalton Rushing’s sacrifice fly, and Rojas came home on a two-out single by Ohtani.

Colorado answered in the third inning. Yoshinobu Yamamoto walked Kyle Karros to lead off the frame. Doyle singled, and both moved up on a throw to third. Ryan Ritter shot a single through the hole on the right side of the infield to drive in both runs and tie the game.

Freeland breezed through the fourth, striking out two batters looking, but opened a blister on his pitching hand. He came out for the fifth but was replaced before throwing a pitch.

The left-hander allowed two runs on six hits and a walk while striking out five in four innings.

Los Angeles went back ahead in the sixth when Freeman drew a leadoff walk, stole second and scored on pinch hitter Alex Freeland’s two-out double to center.

The Rockies responded in the seventh inning when Tovar hit his seventh homer of the season, a blast into Colorado’s bullpen. Colorado subsequently had runners on first and third with two outs, but Yamamoto got Ritter to ground out to end the inning.

Yamamoto allowed three runs on four hits and two walks in seven innings. He struck out six.

White Sox notch season-high 13 runs in win over Braves

The Chicago White Sox went deep four times and scored a season-high in runs before surviving a late Atlanta rally to beat the Braves 13-9 on Monday and snap a four-game losing skid.

Chicago led 13-5 entering the eighth when Atlanta scored four times and had the bases loaded with the tying run at the plate. Eli White, who entered the game earlier in the inning as a pinch-runner for Michael Harris, struck out to end the threat.

Brooks Baldwin, Luis Robert Jr., Lenyn Sosa and Kyle Teel each hit home runs to spark the season-high 19-hit attack. Teel and Benintendi each had four hits.

Atlanta’s Harris had four hits, including a two-run homer, and Jurickson Profar added a pair of home runs with five RBIs. Profar and Matt Olson both had three of the Braves’ 15 hits.

Yoendrys Gomez (3-1) pitched five innings and allowed four runs — three earned — on seven hits, one walk and three strikeouts in his second career start.

Atlanta starter Spencer Strider (5-11) took his third straight loss. He worked a season-low three innings and allowed seven runs on 10 hits — two of them home runs — with one walk and two strikeouts. Strider has allowed seven homers over his last three starts.

The White Sox got a run in the third inning when Baldwin hit his eighth home run, a solo shot that reached the front of the seats in left-center field.

Chicago went deep against Strider again in the fourth inning. Benintendi singled and Robert followed with a two-run shot into the White Sox’ bullpen in left field.

The White Sox went on to score six runs in the fourth to take a 7-0 lead. Mike Tauchman doubled in two runs to knock Strider out of the game. Miguel Vargas added a sacrifice fly and Sosa singled in another run.

Chicago added a three-run homer from Sosa in the sixth inning against reliever Austin Cox, and a solo shot from Teel against Daysbel Hernandez in the seventh.

Giants belt three first-inning homers, hold off Padres

Wilmer Flores’ two-run shot capped a three-homer first inning for the visiting Giants and Robbie Ray fired 6 2/3 solid innings in San Francisco’s 4-3 victory over the San Diego Padres on Monday.

Ray (10-6) allowed just three hits and three unearned runs while walking one and striking out six. Ryan Walker got the next four outs, and Randy Rodriguez pitched the ninth to bag his fourth save.

Arizona starter Nestor Cortes (1-2) lasted 5 2/3 innings, permitting four runs on seven hits and four walks while whiffing five. Cortes didn’t allow a run after the first five batters of the game, but that was enough to get him beat.

Heliot Ramos led off the game with a solo blast to left, his 15th of the year. Rafael Devers followed with his 24th homer, a no-doubter over the wall in right-center. After Casey Schmitt doubled with one out, Flores lofted his 13th homer over the wall in left.

Given four runs before throwing a pitch, Ray cruised for most of his outing. It appeared he allowed a leadoff homer to Xander Bogaerts in the second, but replay officials ruled that Ramos’ attempt to catch the ball was obstructed by a fan reaching over the wall.

Bogaerts was called out after a review, and San Diego manager Mike Shildt was kicked out for arguing the ruling.

Until facing Bogaerts in the seventh, Ray allowed just one hit — a two-out single by Manny Machado in the first. Bogaerts doubled and scored when Jose Iglesias’ grounder to third was booted and then thrown away by Schmitt for two errors.

Pinch hitter Ryan O’Hearn cashed in Iglesias by rifling a two-run homer to right-center, his 15th of the year and second with the Padres, to knock out Ray.

San Diego got the tying run on base in each of the last three innings but couldn’t advance a runner into scoring position. Iglesias singled with one out in the ninth off Rodriguez, who induced a popup from Freddy Fermin and a shallow fly ball from O’Hearn to end it.