Once upon a time, Coors Field was the Rock­ies’ safe haven. Not in 2020.

The big, bad Dodgers blud­geoned them again Fri­day night, smack­ing three home runs on their way to a 15–6 vic­to­ry. The Rock­ies, 22–28 over­all, fell to 11–17 at Coors with two home games remain­ing.  Thus, the Rock­ies will expe­ri­ence just their sev­enth los­ing record at the LoDo ballpark.

Per usu­al, Los Ange­les’ pow­er­ful offense over­whelmed Col­orado pitch­ing. L.A.’s 15 runs were a sea­son-high, as were its 17 hits. The onslaught includ­ed a 3‑for‑5 night by Cody Bellinger who came up a triple short of hit­ting for the cycle.

To get a sense of the huge gulf that sep­a­rates the Dodgers and the Rock­ies, con­sid­er this: The Dodgers (37–15) lead the majors with a plus-117 run dif­fer­en­tial, while the Rock­ies’ run dif­fer­en­tial is minus 63.

There were a cou­ple of bright spots for the Rock­ies. Josh Fuentes, who’s solid­i­fy­ing his place as Colorado’s start­ing first base­man, had the sec­ond three-hit game of his big-league career. He rock­et­ed a three-run homer to left field in the sec­ond inning and added sin­gles in the fourth and sixth. Fuentes moved to left field in the eighth inning, the first time he’s ever played the out­field in the majors or the minors.

David Dahl, who start­ed in left field, hit a two-run triple into the right-field cor­ner in Colorado’s three-run sixth, his first extra-base hit since Aug. 4. .

For Rock­ies rook­ie right-han­der Ryan Castel­lani, it was anoth­er night of grow­ing pains. The Dodgers ripped him for eight runs on sev­en hits over 4 1/3 innings.

The Dodgers, who have hit 98 home runs in their 52 games, launched two in the sec­ond inning to take a 4–0 lead. Castel­lani issued a lead­off walk to Max Muncy, set­ting the plate for Bellinger’s two-run home run o cen­ter. Edwin Ríos’ dou­ble set up Gavin Lux’s 453-foot homer to the sec­ond deck in right field.

The Rock­ies unrav­eled in Los Ange­les’ five-run fifth. A throw­ing error by sec­ond base­man Ryan McMa­hon loaded the bases and Chris Tay­lor imme­di­ate­ly cashed in with a two-run single.

That was the end of Castellani’s night, but sel­dom-used right-han­der Jeff Hoff­man didn’t fare any bet­ter. He gave up three con­sec­u­tive RBI  sin­gles. Hoff­man also served up a solo homer to Mook­ie Betts in the sixth, Betts’ 16th homer. 

Right-han­der Wade Davis, the for­mer all-star clos­er who’s near­ing the end of his up-and-down three-year stay in Col­orado, looks like a shell of the pitch­er he used to be. Davis, who’s spent most of the sea­son on the injured list with an ail­ing shoul­der, gave up four runs on four hits in the seventh.