None of that has stopped the scoreboard from lighting up in this series so far. Coors Field does what Coors Field does, and the price on the board reflects a Dodgers team that's supposed to win comfortably — the question is whether the margin and the total end up being separate bets.
Los Angeles has won 2 straight and taken the first two meetings of this series, riding a lineup that's deep enough to cover for a rotation held together with rehab starts and spot fill-ins. Colorado, playing out the string at 50-76, has lost 2 straight and dropped both meetings so far — but Freeland's last turn was his best of the year, and a Rockies club with nothing to play for except spoiling somebody's night at altitude is never fully out of a game here.
Sasaki's last outing wasn't clean — 5 walks over 6 innings against Milwaukee — and command lapses tend to get punished harder a mile above sea level. Whichever way this one breaks, it's shaping up as another high-scoring night at Coors, with a shorthanded Dodgers bullpen and a Rockies lineup that's shown it can still put crooked numbers on the board even in a lost year.