Dodgers 6, Rockies 3 at Dodger Stadium on April 26, 2014 Los Angeles Dodgers Victory # 9,999 Top of the 9th Inning 1:58 Kenley Jansen strikes out Brandon Barnes with runners on 2nd and 3rd 2:05 I LOVE L.A.! 3:32 on-field post-game interview with Matt Kemp 4:50 I LOVE L.A.! 5:26 Dodger Stadium Dirt http://losangeles.dodgers.mlb.com/mlb/gameday/index.jsp?gid=2014_04_26_colmlb_lanmlb_1&mode;=recap&c;_id=la#gid=2014_04_26_colmlb_lanmlb_1&mode;=recap&c;_id=la LOS ANGELES -- Booming and crashing their way to victory has been a rare thing for the Dodgers lately. Not that runs have been scarce over the past couple of weeks, but the rain a night earlier moved the Southern California "drought" needle away from precipitation and squarely onto the Dodgers lineup. Before Matt Kemp and Adrian Gonzalez homered, Dee Gordon tripled and Yasiel Puig doubled to power the Dodgers to a 6-3 Saturday night special over the Rockies, you needed a magnifying glass and maybe a metal detector to locate some runs from what was supposed to be a potent batting order. It was no secret. Manager Don Mattingly talked openly about it as his club hit before the middle game of this Rockies series. Since leaving Arizona, the manager said, there are no two ways around it, the offense has not been good. The Dodgers scored 22 runs in the three games in Arizona from April 11-13. But over 11 games since then, the Dodgers had managed just 33 runs. And during that stretch, they had scored six or more runs just once -- in an 8-6 win over Arizona on April 19. So, while Saturday's cruise over the Rockies might not have seemed like much, it was a sudden and torrential outpouring of runs considering the way things have been going. It started in the third, right after the Rockies had pushed one run across, with Gordon ripping a line drive into center field and then doing what he does best. Run. He didn't stop until he was on third for a leadoff triple, one more key moment in a string of them for Gordon this season. Next, Puig was hit by a pitch, Gordon scored on a Hanley Ramirez ground ball and then Puig scored on a Gonzalez sacrifice fly. Then Kemp ripped a home run. The Dodgers added a fourth run in the fourth when Puig's double drove Drew Butera home following a leadoff walk, and then Gonzalez blasted a homer off of Colorado starter Juan Nicasio to boost the Dodgers' lead to 5-2. For Gonzalez, the home run doubled as career hit No. 1,500. What it all added up to was an extraordinarily rare win over the Rockies for Dodgers starter Paul Maholm, who had a personal losing streak of seven consecutive decisions against them dating all the way back to Aug. 23, 2007, when he was pitching for the Pirates. Maholm lasted seven innings, surrendering two runs and six hits while needing only 84 pitches. In the ninth, Brian Wilson walked the two batters he faced before Kenley Jansen recorded his ninth save in 11 opportunities, striking out Brandon Barnes with runners on second and third to close the game.

• published: 27 Apr 2014
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