The summer sky above Coors Field unleashed more than just Colorado sunshine on Wednesday, June 25—an ominous weather pattern preceded a thunderous performance by the visiting Dodgers, who routed the Rockies 8–1. The contest began as a tight pitcher’s duel but swiftly unraveled into a dominant display by Los Angeles after an 87-minute rain delay.

Dodgers’ ace Yoshinobu Yamamoto took the mound determined to rebound from a tough June. And he did just that. Over the first five innings, he silenced the Rockies, permitting just one hit and striking out six. Rockies rookie starter Chase Dollander matched Yamamoto pitch for pitch through the same stretch. He held the Dodgers scoreless, inducing 11 ground-ball outs and even fanning a big bat in Max Muncy in the fourth. By the fifth inning’s close, the scoreboard remained locked at 0–0—a rare stalemate in a ballpark known for offense.

With two outs in the sixth, Dollander was trying to escape a jam with runners on first and second when the clouds opened and started to pour rain with Max Muncy at the plate. As the Rockies head groundskeeper was indicating the game should be called, the umpires proceeded with the at-bat. Dollander won the battle by inducing a pop-up on the infield that should have ended the inning. However, as fate would have it, the downpour of rain caused infielders Thairo Estrada and Michael Toglia to not be able to locate the ball and it fell meer inches from Toglia, allowing two runs to score and give the Dodgers a 2-0 lead.

The tarp was then pulled, entering a lengthy delay to end both starting pitchers’ nights. Shortly after play resumed, Andy Pages hit an RBI single to make it a 3-0 lead for the Dodgers.

For Colorado, their lone run came on a smiling miscue in the bottom of the sixth as center fielder Andy Pages threw Hunter Goodman’s single into the Dodgers’ dugout trying to catch a run down, allowing Tyler Freeman to cross home and trim the deficit to 3–1.

In the seventh inning, with the Rockies’ bullpen attempting damage control, Max Muncy unleashed a monumental grand slam, his 12th homer of the season and second slam in three games. The blast cleared the walls, sending three more Dodgers home and cracking the game open at 7–1. Los Angeles wasn’t done: in the eighth, Michael Conforto launched his sixth homer of the season, a majestic solo shot that sealed the 8–1 outcome.

Yamamoto earned the win, going five innings with only one hit, one walk, and six strikeouts—retiring all but one Rockies player he faced—a vastly improved outing for the Japanese import.

Meanwhile, Dollander absorbed the loss. He worked 5⅔ innings, allowing three earned runs on three hits and two walks. He dropped to 2–8 on the season, unable to hold the fort as La-La Land’s offense awakened.

The Rockies’ 8–1 defeat was a perfect storm: dominant Dodgers pitching, rainy disruption, and explosive offense featuring Muncy’s grand slam and Conforto’s long ball. While Yamamoto’s composure and Muncy’s bat stole the headlines, the rain delay proved to be more than a pause—it gave L.A. time to regroup and come out swinging. For the Rockies, it was another painful night at the plate, their lone run only a footnote in a game controlled entirely by the Dodgers.

Falling to 18-62, the Rockies will face off against Clayton Kershaw on Thursday with Austin Gomber set to take the mound for the Rockies.