Dalton Rushing’s 11th-inning walk-off sends Dodgers to their first extra-inning game of the season, 8-7 over Rockies

The Dodgers spent the first stretch of their season finishing games inside nine innings, but Monday night at home ended that streak. In their first extra-inning contest of the year, Los Angeles beat the Colorado Rockies 8-7 in the 11th on a walk-off single by Dalton Rushing.

According to MLB, the Dodgers had not played an extra-inning game through their first 91 games, a run that the league noted as being historically notable. MLB also reported that after 92 games without an extra-inning matchup, Los Angeles stood as the second-longest stretch in league history to avoid going past nine innings, with the only longer mark belonging to the 2005 Boston Red Sox.

The game itself started like a routine Dodgers win. MLB reported Los Angeles opened the scoring with Shohei Ohtani’s 299th career home run in the third inning, and the Dodgers then widened the gap by adding a four-run frame in the fourth to take what looked like a comfortable lead. They were up 6-1 through four innings.

Colorado refused to go quietly. MLB described a late Rockies rally that tied the game against Dodgers left-hander Tanner Scott, pushing the contest toward the late stages. In the ninth inning, Colorado had a two-out, bases-loaded moment that appeared close enough to change the complexion of the game. After a review, the outcome held and play moved on, sending the score to the bottom of the ninth with the tying work already completed.

MLB further reported that the Rockies then manufactured another run in the 10th with the help of the automatic runner mechanism, using a sequence that started with a Jake McCarthy groundout and ended with Colorado taking a narrow advantage. The Dodgers did not stay down, though, matching the Rockies in the bottom of the 10th to send the game to the 11th.

In the decisive inning, the Dodgers kept things moving against the Rockies until Rushing delivered the finishing hit. Rushing’s walk-off single scored the winning run, and the Dodgers closed it out to register their franchise’s first 60th win of the season, making them the first team in Major League Baseball to reach 60 victories, as reported by Newsday and echoed by MLB’s recap.

The bigger takeaway for the Dodgers is not just that they finally went long, but how their late-inning approach held up after Colorado erased the early margin. Extra innings are often as much about stress management as talent, and Los Angeles showed it could respond even after the score tightened and the game needed a final at-bat to settle.

For Colorado, the loss was a reminder that rallies can be fragile until the final out, even when a game swings back and forth. The Dodgers now have a blueprint for what it looks like when the outcome is decided beyond regulation, and the Rockies will look to carry the energy of their comeback into the next matchup. The next test will be whether Los Angeles can repeat this kind of late-game execution without the benefit of an opponent also reaching into late-inning situations.