DENVER – Kenta Maeda allowed two runs over 5 2/3 innings, rookie Corey Seager tied a Dodgers record for shortstops with his 19th home run and Los Angeles beat the Colorado Rockies 4-2 on Thursday night to avoid a three-game sweep.
Maeda (10-7) gave up four hits and struck out five for the Dodgers, who lead the NL wild-card race. Maeda, who walked none and hit two batters, has allowed three runs in 18 2/3 innings against the Rockies, with 22 strikeouts and two walks.
Pedro Baez and Joe Blanton combined for 2 1/3 scoreless innings, and Kenley Jansen threw a hitless ninth for his 32nd save in 37 chances.
Colorado had scored 19 runs and with 28 hits in the first two games of the series. The Rockies lost for just the second time in nine games.
Tyler Chatwood (10-7) allowed four runs and nine hits in six innings for Colorado, which trails by three games for the NL’s second wild card.
David Dahl hit a two-run homer in the fourth and has hit safely in his first 10 games in the majors.
With the Dodgers trailing 2-1, Seager hit a solo homer in the fifth that tied the Dodgers shortstop mark set by Hanley Ramirez in 2013. Yasmani Grandal had a two-run triple late in the innings.
Howie Kendrick singled in a run in the fourth.
In the second inning, Joc Pederson’s sharp groundball down the right-field line had a chance to score Grandal from first in the second inning, but a fan leaned over the wall and scooped up the ball. Grandal was given a double, and Maeda hit an inning-ending flyout. The fan was removed from the game.
Miami’s Ichiro Suzuki comes to Coors Field two hits from becoming the 30th player to reach 3,000 in the major leagues. He is 0 for 10 since his last hit, on July 28. With left-hander Jorge De La Rosa starting for the Rockies, it is not clear whether Suzuki will start.
Rockies: OF Daniel Descalso made a diving, head-first catch into the left field wall off the bat of Seager in the third. He left the game after the inning with a bruised left shoulder. ... OF Carlos Gonzalez was out of the lineup after spraining his left ankle in the seventh inning Wednesday. . SS Trevor Story (thumb) underwent surgery to repair a torn ulnar collateral ligament. “Everything went well,” manager Walt Weiss said. “No surprises.”
Rockies: De La Rosa (7-7) has thrown a quality start in seven of his last eight outings.
