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April 17, 2026 · NL West

Los Angeles Dodgers vs Colorado Rockies

April 17, 2026Coors FieldPartly Cloudy 35°F · 3 mph, R To L
AWAY
Los Angeles Dodgers
15-4
7
vs
HOME
Colorado Rockies
7-13
1

Starting pitchers

AWAY · LAD
Tyler Glasnow
Tyler Glasnow
IP 7
HOME · COL
Tomoyuki Sugano
Tomoyuki Sugano
IP 4

Lineups

AWAY · LAD
  1. 1 Shohei Ohtani DH
  2. 2 Kyle Tucker RF
  3. 3 Will Smith C
  4. 4 Freddie Freeman 1B
  5. 5 Teoscar Hernández LF
  6. 6 Max Muncy 3B
  7. 7 Andy Pages CF
  8. 8 Hyeseong Kim SS
  9. 9 Alex Freeland 2B
HOME · COL
  1. 1 Edouard Julien 2B
  2. 2 Mickey Moniak DH
  3. 3 TJ Rumfield 1B
  4. 4 Troy Johnston RF
  5. 5 Ezequiel Tovar SS
  6. 6 Brett Sullivan C
  7. 7 Brenton Doyle CF
  8. 8 Kyle Karros 3B
  9. 9 Jake McCarthy LF

Box score

  123456789 R
LAD 112120000 7
COL 000100000 1

Manager comparison

Both managers grade B / C entering this matchup.

AWAY · LAD
Dave Roberts
B Lineup 0.2 R Bunts 0.3 R IBBs 1.0 R
HOME · COL
Warren Schaeffer
C Lineup 1.5 R Bunts 0.9 R IBBs 1.9 R

Recent form

AWAY · LAD
5-5 W1 +16 run diff
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HOME · COL
3-6 W2 -7 run diff
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Season series: 2-2 with LAD listed first across 4 prior meetings.

Tactical analysis

RunsLeft separates manager decisions from player execution from game variance. Each card below is the same three-number framework that drives the share cards on the SPA replay page.

AWAY · Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Manager lineup cost −0.06 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 3.32 vs actual lineup 3.38
  • Player execution +3.62 R/G Players exceeded the lineup's 3.38 projection by 3.62 (scored 7)
  • Game variance +3.68 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Lineup spots out of order vs season production

HOME · Colorado Rockies
  • Manager lineup cost +0.10 R/G Optimal arrangement projects 3.10 vs actual lineup 2.99
  • Player execution −1.99 R/G Players fell 1.99 short of the lineup's 2.99 projection (scored 1)
  • Game variance −2.10 R/G Total game outcome vs optimal expectation

Julien 0-for-3 batting 1st

COUNTERFACTUAL

Optimal lineups projected 3.3 – 3.1 — actual was 7 – 1.

Keep reading

How RunsLeft analyzes games

Standard content on this page comes from the MLB Stats API. Tactical analysis comes from a per-game Monte Carlo: 10,000 simulated games against the opposing starter's ERA, both for the actual lineup the manager wrote and for the optimal arrangement of those nine players. The three numbers — manager cost, player execution, game variance — separate which part of the result was the lineup, the players, or the dice.

Read the full methodology.