Dodgers Recap: LA Misses Out on No-Hitter, but Nails Down Crucial Win

CHAVEZ RAVINE — For the second time in three days, the Dodgers flirted with history. And for the first time in what feels like ages, they didn’t let late-inning drama ruin a well-earned win.

L.A. carried a combined no-hitter into the ninth on Monday night at Chavez Ravine and beat the Rockies, 3–1, to open a quick homestand on the right foot. Tyler Glasnow was electric, Blake Treinen was tidy, and while Tanner Scott surrendered the knock that ended the no-no, he slammed the door right after it. Unlike Saturday’s collapse, the story this time ended with a handshake line.

Glasnow set the tone from the first pitch: power, angle, and ruthlessness. The right-hander fanned 11 Rockies over seven innings, allowing one run without a hit (yes, you read that right). Colorado’s only dent came in the second when Jordan Beck drew a walk, stole second, advanced on a fly ball, and scored on Kyle Farmer’s sacrifice fly. That was it. No loud contact, no rallies, and precious few comfortable swings. Glasnow’s final line—7.0 IP, 0 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 11 K on 105 pitches—doesn’t just look sharp; it underscores how suffocating he was. He took a personal no-hitter through seven before the pitch count nudged Dave Roberts to the pen.

Enter Treinen, whose job description on nights like these is simple: keep the pressure vise locked. He did exactly that—three quick outs, a strikeout mixed in, and the combined no-hit bid marched to the ninth. It was then Scott’s turn, and the lefty’s first batter, Ryan Ritter, ripped a leadoff double over Alex Caul’s head in left to snap the no-hitter. Given how Saturday went, Dodger Stadium collectively inhaled. Scott didn’t blink. A liner to Mookie Betts at shortstop, a routine grounder to Betts, and a final lineout to Max Muncy later, the save was Scott’s (No. 21) and the win was in blue.

Of course, to cash in the pitching brilliance, the bats had to do just enough—and they did, albeit in fits and starts. For five innings, rookie righty Chase Dollander kept the Dodgers hitless while working around traffic. Michael Conforto finally cracked the dam with a sharp single to left in the fifth, but L.A. still trailed 1–0 into the sixth.

That’s when the at-bats got longer and the approach sharpened. Ben Rortvedt walked to open the inning, Shohei Ohtani drew another free pass, and Betts lifted a productive flyout to move Rortvedt to third. Freddie Freeman, as he so often does, delivered the professional swing the game demanded—an opposite-field ground-rule double that tied it, 1–1, and moved Ohtani to third. The Dodgers couldn’t cash the rest of the inning after an intentional walk to Muncy (strikeout) and a Conforto groundout, but the message had been sent: with the starter gone and the bullpen in, L.A. had the leverage.

They pressed it in the seventh. After Hyeseong Kim struck out and Andy Pages wore a pitch, Rortvedt popped out, setting the table for Ohtani. Shohei roped a two-out double to right, putting runners at second and third and flipping the lineup card to Betts with the night’s biggest swing coming. Betts shot a clean single to center, scoring both Pages and Ohtani for a 3–1 lead the Dodgers would not relinquish. Two-out hitting wins in September; Betts’ at-bat was the definition of timely.

Was it perfect? No. The Dodgers finished just 2-for-8 with runners in scoring position and stranded six. But the game script—wait out the starter, grind against the middle relief, and come up with the one crooked-number swing—was exactly what this team needed on the heels of a bruising road trip. Ohtani’s 7th-inning double was his 21st of the year; Betts finished with two RBIs; Freeman notched his 37th double and 78th RBI. That trio authored the scoring, and it was enough because the arms didn’t yield.

If you’re keeping tabs on the larger arc: this is the response you wanted to see. After carrying a no-hitter deep and losing Saturday in excruciating fashion, the Dodgers again chased history, lost it, and still finished the job. That matters. It builds clubhouse equilibrium and, just as importantly, reestablishes the bullpen’s confidence. Treinen’s eighth was textbook, and Scott, even after the Ritter double, never let the inning breathe.

The numbers on the board tell a tidy story: Rockies 1 run on 1 hit; Dodgers 3 runs on 4 hits. It took only 2 hours, 28 minutes to play before 48,433 fans under a clear 75-degree sky. Add it up and you get a tidy September win, the kind that calms a clubhouse and resets a homestand.

Good start, indeed. The set continues tomorrow with Emmet Sheehan facing Germán Márquez. Another crisp outing, another couple of timely swings, and L.A. can start stacking the kind of games that travel into October. Tonight, they showed the blueprint: elite starting pitching, late offense, and a bullpen that—finally—finished what the starter began.

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