July 7th, 2022 at 8:00 am 
by Ron Cervenka You will be hard-pressed to find a more exciting – or intense – game than the Dodgers 2-1 walk-off win over the Colorado Rockies at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night.
That win came on a Mookie Betts high chopper over the mound and just out of reach of Rockies right-hander Daniel Bard, allowing speedy Dodgers center fielder Cody Bellinger, who was running on contact, to score from third base. It was Betts’ first walk-off hit as a Dodger and fifth of his nine-year MLB career.
“It wasn’t pretty, but the job got done,” Betts said postgame.
It may have not been pretty, but it was beautiful in the eyes of the Dodgers faithful.
It would be criminal not to mention the phenomenal job done by Dodgers starter Mitch White and the Dodgers bullpen. The 27-year-old Dodgers right-hander allowed the Rockies only run on a weird play in the top of the sixth inning in which the aforementioned Bellinger made a throw from shallow center field to try to nail Rockies left fielder Kris Bryant at third base on the only hit White and the Dodgers bullpen allowed on the night – a one-out single by Rockies second baseman Brendan Rodgers on which Bellinger’s throw took a weird hop that bounced off the photo well next to the Dodgers third base dugout. That would be the only hit allowed by White, with Messrs. David Price, Yency Almonte, and winning pitcher Craig Kimbrel tossing a combined 3.1 innings of no-hit baseball.
“He’s rose to every challenge we’ve given him,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of White. “If you look at what we’ve challenged him with this year as far as the circumstance, it hasn’t been easy – up, down, back and forth, not knowing when you’re going to start – he’s handled it like a professional. But to navigate left, right, to go deeper into games, he’s been as valuable as any player we’ve had that’s been here the entire year.”
Ironically, or perhaps poetically, the only other Dodgers runs was that of Bellinger on a wild pitch by Rockies right-hander Jake Bird in the bottom of the seventh.
“I was really upset at myself when I made that throw, so I just wanted to win this game bad,” Bellinger said postgame of his errant throw. “I wanted to kind of flip the script. I hate doing that kind of stuff on the field, so I just wanted to try to help the team win any way I could.”
Well done, boys!
Play Ball!
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The game should not have been that close. Dodgers had 9 hits and 5 walks and only scored 2 runs. 1 for 7 RISP, 11 LOB. We need to get better hitting with runners on or in scoring position. We got lucky the Baltimore chop got over the pitchers head.