Dodgers Not Close Against the Rockies : Baseball: Colorado scores 11 runs in fourth, fifth and sixth innings of 13-5 victory.

For once, things were calm. Ugly, but calm.

No Dodger bullpen angst. No late-inning drama, no comebacks, no closer controversy--and no chance from the middle innings on.

The Colorado Rockies took care of all that for the Dodgers, rocketing baseballs all over the park on their way to a rollicking 13-5 victory before 39,609 at Dodger Stadium Friday night.

How bad was it for the Dodgers? The Rockies’ left fielder, Eric Young, who started the game with a .220 batting average and only four doubles and 14 runs this season, had hits in his first four at-bats, including three doubles, and scored three runs.

How bad? The Rockies crushed Orel Hershiser and Roger McDowell for 11 runs in the fourth, fifth and sixth innings combined. By the top of the sixth, after Dante Bichette knocked in three with a bases-loaded double--his third hit of the game--it was 12-4, Colorado.

“They have a good lineup,” Dodger third baseman Tim Wallach said. “When they get on a roll offensively, it’s tough to stop them.”

For the Dodgers, who do fine against Colorado while in Denver, the defeat was an unwelcome reminder of the last time the Rockies were at Dodger Stadium: Last August, the Rockies swept a four-game series, knocking the Dodgers out of the division title chase.

Friday’s loss shrunk the Dodgers’ division lead over the second-place Rockies to four games and ended Colorado’s three-game losing streak.

Meanwhile, starting pitcher Lance Painter, who brought an 0-2 record and 6.87 earned-run average into the game, survived the Dodgers’ three-run first inning and lasted 5 2/3 innings, giving up five runs.

He was relieved in the sixth with two out, the score 12-5, and the bases loaded, when Willie Blair was brought in to face Mike Piazza, who earlier had doubled and also hit his 14th home run of the season.

Blair jammed Piazza, whose blooper was caught by shortstop Walt Weiss, to end the Dodgers’ last meaningful moment.

Hershiser (3-4) started out shakily--he gave up hard-hit balls to everyone he faced in the first. But a home run saving catch by Cory Snyder in left field, a line drive caught by shortstop Jose Offerman, and a pickoff of Bichette at second base held the Rockies to one run in the inning.

The Dodger hitters, as they usually do when Hershiser pitches, put runs on the board. They gave Hershiser a 3-1 lead in the first, keyed by Piazza’s two-run double off the right-center-field wall.

In Hershiser’s 14 starts, the Dodgers have scored an average of more than five runs.

But the Rockies’ bombardment was only beginning. The first four Rockies got hits in the fourth inning, including a two-run home run by Andres Galarraga, his 20th.

Young’s double scored two more, and a Hershiser wild pitch plated two more for a 6-3 Colorado lead.

Hershiser’s seven-run, nine-hit, four-inning stint ended an 11-game run in which Dodger starters pitched at least six innings and the aggregate ERA for the starters was 2.50.

“I pitched very poorly, and when you pitch poorly, sometimes things like this happen,” Hershiser said.

It was also the shortest outing this season for Hershiser, who has lost his last four decisions. In three previous career starts against Colorado, Hershiser had given up only two runs in 23 innings.

But, with Painter on the mound for Colorado, the Dodgers were still in the game. Until the fifth.

With McDowell on the mound, Galarraga led off with a single. Charlie Hayes then belted a deep home run to left field, making the score 9-4. The Rockies followed that by scoring three more runs in the sixth against McDowell before anybody was out. It took rookie reliever Ismael Valdes to get out of the inning.

* DAY OF DRAMA

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