Alex Guerrero hit a grand slam off reliever Rafael Betancourt with two outs in the top of the ninth, helping the Los Angeles Dodgers rally for a 9-8 win over the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night and salvage a doubleheader split.
The Rockies beat the Dodgers 6-3 in the opener behind the pitching of Jorge De La Rosa. The game was a makeup of a rainout on May 9.
Guerrero sent a 1-2 fastball from Betancourt (2-2) to the deepest part of Coors Field, just eluding the glove of leaping center fielder Charlie Blackmon. The crowd waited to see if Blackmon had the baseball as he fell to the warning track. He didn’t.
It was Guerrero’s first career grand slam and fourth homer of the day for the Dodgers.
In other major league action:
— The Milwaukee Brewers and St. Louis Cardinals played their second straight 1-0 game on Tuesday. This time, the Redbirds came away with a victory as Lance Lynn combined with two relievers on a seven-hitter.
Lynn evened his record at 4-4 by limiting the Brewers to five singles while striking out five in 7 2/3 innings. Mark Reynolds supplied one of the Cardinals’ four hits, an RBI single in the second off hard-luck loser Tyler Cravy.
The Cards are a major league-best 34-18 and owners of a six-game lead in the National League Central.
— Andrew McCutchen was 4-for-5 with a triple, a double, two RBIs and two runs scored in Pittsburgh’s 7-4 downing of San Francisco. Jordy Mercer socked a solo homer to back a shaky A.J. Burnett, who gave up four runs in five innings but improved to 6-1.
— Michael McKenry hit a two-run homer and had two RBIs as Colorado downed the Los Angeles Dodgers 6-3 in Game 1 of a day-night doubleheader. Jorge De La Rosa allowed three runs and four hits over six innings in his first outing since his start was pushed back twice because of a cut on his middle finger.
— Evan Gattis hit a three-run shot and Luis Valbuena homered one batter later while Houston scored five times in the third to erase a 4-0 deficit and beat Baltimore 6-4. Collin McHugh picked up his sixth victory after surviving the Orioles’ four-run second.
— Washington won the opener of its twinbill as Jordan Zimmerman allowed six hits in eight innings of a 2-0 shutout of Toronto. Bryce Harper put the Nationals ahead with a run-scoring single in the fifth, the 29th RBI in his last 27 games.
— Kevin Pillar hit a pair of homers, including a go-ahead, three-run blast in the sixth inning as the Blue Jays downed the Nats 7-3 in Game 2. The blast came off Max Scherzer, who had been 6-3 with a 1.51 ERA before suffering his first loss since May 1.
— Ben Zobrist hit a go-ahead grand slam in a five-run seventh that pushed Oakland past the Tigers 5-3 in Detroit. The rally made a winner of Kendall Graveman, who allowed three runs and eight hits in six innings.
— Chris Archer was terrific in Tampa Bay’s 6-1 triumph over the Angels at Anaheim, tying a team record with 15 strikeouts and scattering six hits in eight innings. Logan Forsythe smacked a two-run homer and Jake Elmore hit a two-run single as the Rays won for the third time in four games since a seven-game skid.
— Garrett Jones unloaded a three-run homer in the 11th inning to give the New York Yankees a 5-3 comeback win over the Mariners in Seattle. The Yanks were down to their final out trailing 2-1 until Stephen Drew hit an RBI double to extend the game.
— Texas crushed the Chicago White Sox 15-2 Carlos Corporan belted a three-run homer and collected five RBIs. Joey Gallo was 3-for-4 with four RBIs and three runs scored in his major league debut to back Colby Lewis, who gave up two runs in seven innings.
— Arizona blew a 4-1 lead before A.J. Pollock’s two-run homer in the seventh sent the Diamondbacks past Atlanta 7-6. Pollock had three RBIs and Ender Inciarte delivered a two-run single and scored twice.
— Derek Norris belted a two-run homer off Noah Syndergaard to put the Padres ahead 7-1 by the fourth inning of a 7-1 win against the New York Mets. Will Venable hit a two-run triple and Cory Spangenberg went 3-for-3 with an RBI triple for San Diego.
— Clay Buchholz yielded just three hits while striking out eight in eight innings of Boston’s 1-0 win against Minnesota. Losing pitcher Mike Pelfrey had a shutout until Rusney Castillo slapped an RBI single in the seventh inning.
— The Twins still lead the AL Central by a half-game over Kansas City after Brandon Moss homered and Michael Brantley lined the go-ahead single in Cleveland’s 2-1 win over the Royals. Carlos Carrasco allowed five hits over seven innings to win his third straight start and lead the Indians to their 11th victory in 14 games.
— Marcell Ozuna hit a go-ahead, three-run double in the fifth inning of Miami’s 5-2 verdict over the Chicago Cubs. Giancarlo Stanton hit his 16th homer of the season and winning pitcher Rich Hand allowed two runs in six innings.
— Philadelphia beat Cincinnati 5-4 on Darin Ruf’s RBi single in the bottom of the ninth. The Phillies trailed 4-1 until Chase Utley hit a solo homer in the sixth and Maikel Franco tied it with a two-run blast in the eighth.