Dodgers play hit and miss, lose in 10th inning, 7-6, to Colorado

— The Dodgers lost more than a game Saturday when they fell to the Colorado Rockies, 7-6, in 10 innings.

They also lost left fielder Carl Crawford to injury, their manager to ejection and twice they lost the lead. They might not have a starting pitcher for Sunday, their bullpen is a shambles, and while it may be a stretch to say the Dodgers have lost hope, they certainly appear to have misplaced it.

However, help — if not hope — may soon be on the way. Outfield prospect Yasiel Puig, who the team has resisted calling up from the minors, was held out of the starting lineup for double A Chattanooga on Saturday, a move the Dodgers said was a precaution given their injury situation.

But the team may soon have to throw precaution to the wind.

“We’re going to have to get some bodies here,” Manager Don Mattingly said. “We were kind of thin outfield-wise already. So we’re going to have to do something.”

When and where Puig plays his next game may not be up to Mattingly, though. The decision probably will rest with Crawford’s left hamstring, which cramped in the third inning, forcing Crawford out of the game.

“This just kind of came out of nowhere,” said Crawford, who doubled twice in two at-bats before hobbling off the field. “It’s tight and sore.”

The Dodgers are already missing center fielder Matt Kemp, who went on the disabled list Thursday with a strained right hamstring, and shortstop Hanley Ramirez, who has missed 26 games to a hamstring strain of his own. If Crawford joins them on the DL, the Dodgers will be paying $83.4 million in annual salary to players who can’t play.

“You can’t really predict when somebody’s going to get hurt,” Crawford said. “It just happens and then you just kind of deal with it.”

The Dodgers also must deal with the potential loss of left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu, who sounded pessimistic about making his scheduled start Sunday. Ryu took a comebacker off his left foot in Tuesday’s shutout win over the Angels and says the foot is still sore.

“I never want to take the mound and put my team in jeopardy. So unless I’m fully confident I can be the pitcher I am, I wouldn’t want to step out there,” Ryu said through an interpreter.

If Ryu can’t go, the team could recall right-hander Matt Magill, who has made four starts for the Dodgers. He last pitched eight days ago, throwing six shutout innings in triple A.

“We’re going to have to do something,” Mattingly said. “Nobody else is here right now. There [are] no starters here.”

As for the players the Dodgers did have in Denver on Saturday, they led, 3-1, in the third and 6-4 in the seventh, only to watch the Rockies come back on Carlos Gonzalez’s two-out, two-run homer off Zack Greinke in the fifth and again on Michael Cuddyer’s two-run game-tying homer off Ronald Belisario two innings later.

In between, Mattingly was ejected by first-base umpire Brian Knight. The manager and Greinke thought the pitcher caught Yorvit Torrealba’s comebacker before it hit the mound, starting a double play. But plate umpire Gerry Davis ruled the ball hit the dirt first, costing the Dodgers an out.

Torrealba came back to haunt the Dodgers again in the 10th, grounding a two-out single to left. Pinch-hitter Wilin Rosario followed with an infield hit before Dexter Fowler ended the game with a line drive just inside the right-field line that went for a game-winning single.

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