Hilliard, Cron lift Rockies past division-chasing Dodgers

DENVER (AP) — First Julio Urías. Now Walker Buehler.

That's back-to-back off outings from key cogs in a Los Angeles rotation that boasted the best ERA in baseball. Logging too many innings? Wearing down?

Dodgers manager Dave Roberts had a simpler explanation: "All guys have some bit of fatigue right now,” he said.

Sam Hilliard lined a three-run homer, C.J. Cron had four hits and the Colorado Rockies snapped a five-game skid at Coors Field by beating the NL West title-chasing Dodgers 10-5 on Wednesday night.

The Dodgers may be in danger of losing more ground to division-leading San Francisco. They entered the day a game behind the Giants, who played late in San Diego.

This had all the makings of a pitchers' duel with All-Stars Buehler and Germán Márquez on the mound. Instead, it was anything but, as the teams combined for 19 hits, including three homers and even a two-run double from Márquez that chased his counterpart from the game.

“My job is to set the tone," Buehler said. "I didn’t do that.”

Buehler gave up five runs over 3 2/3 innings in his career-high 31st start of the season. He refuses to blame it on the volume of innings. Urías echoed a similar chorus the night before.

“It’s a me problem and something I need to address and figure out," Buehler said. "We have a great team and a lot of guys that are really talented. I want to be a cog in that. I want to fit in. Right now, I’m not even doing that.”

Luke Raley displayed his power by drilling a two-run homer to center in the third inning that was measured by Statcast at 472 feet. It's tied for the Dodgers' third-longest tracked by Statcast since 2015.

His mom was on hand, too. It's the first time she's got to see him play in the big leagues.

“It's really awesome I...

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