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title: "Mookie Betts caps a late Dodgers rally to beat the Rockies"
description: "Mookie Betts lined a go-ahead single in the eighth inning on Wednesday night to cap a late Dodgers comeback and beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 at Dodger Stadium, completing a series sweep in which all three games were decided by a single run."
category: "Sports"
category_url: https://herald.la/category/sports
author: "Elias Rosen"
published: 2026-07-09T04:52:00.000Z
updated: 2026-07-09T04:52:00.000Z
canonical: https://herald.la/article/mookie-betts-caps-a-late-dodgers-rally-to-beat-the-rockies
tags: ["dodgers", "mookie-betts", "rockies", "mlb"]
---
# Mookie Betts caps a late Dodgers rally to beat the Rockies

Mookie Betts lined a go-ahead single in the eighth inning on Wednesday night to cap a late Dodgers comeback and beat the Colorado Rockies 4-3 at Dodger Stadium, completing a series sweep in which all three games were decided by a single run.

The Dodgers made a habit of it against Colorado this week: fall behind, then find a way. On Wednesday night they did it once more, rallying late to beat the Rockies 4-3, with Mookie Betts delivering the decisive hit.

## Betts comes through

Trailing in the eighth inning, the Dodgers put together the rally that decided the game. Tommy Edman and Freddie Freeman each singled with one out to set the table, and Betts followed with a go-ahead single up the middle, working a nine-pitch at-bat before driving in the run that put Los Angeles ahead, [Yahoo Sports reported](https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mookie-betts-caps-dodgers-rally-043906034.html).

## Closing it out

Tanner Scott handled the ninth to nail down the win, striking out two in a scoreless inning for his 13th save of the season, [Yahoo Sports reported](https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mookie-betts-caps-dodgers-rally-043906034.html). It preserved a one-run margin that, by now, felt familiar.

## A series of one-run games

The victory gave the Dodgers the series against the Rockies, and it did so in fitting fashion: all three games were decided by a single run, [Yahoo Sports reported](https://sports.yahoo.com/articles/mookie-betts-caps-dodgers-rally-043906034.html). For Los Angeles, the takeaway is less about any one at-bat than about a stretch of tight games it kept finding a way to win, the kind of low-margin baseball that adds up over a long season. The Dodgers will look to carry that late-inning form into their next series.