Colorado won two of the first three games at Coors Field, and LA’s rookie catcher questioned the success on the first pitch.
The Colorado Rockies entered the weekend tied for last place in the NL West, trailing the Los Angeles Dodgers by 7.5 games just 19 games into the 2026 MLB season. They snapped a six-game losing streak Thursday with a win over the Houston Astros.
The Rockies welcomed the Dodgers to Coors Field for a four-game set, and based on how both teams played, it appeared to be an opportunity for the Dodgers to continue their hot start to the season. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that the Dodgers guard costs more than a quarter of a billion dollars more than the Rockiesbut that’s for another day.
Instead, Colorado stunned Los Angeles by taking two of the first three games of the series (after the Dodgers topped the Rockies, 7-1, on Friday). So how did they do it? Well, according to Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing, probably by cheating.
“I think they had a good game plan as the opposing team and maybe I bought into their game plan. As far as calling pitches, I’m not 100% sure. I just think it’s weird, some of the hitters that do what they do, they go up there and they were only on the first pitch that was thrown. So it’s a little fishy,” he says.
The implication of Rushing seems pretty clear to be that the Rockies knew what pitch the Dodgers would throw with their first pitches. It seems to imply that Rushing thinks the Rockies were unfaithful, as does the use of the word “fishy”.
Now, it seems unlikely that the Colorado Rockies, one of the worst teams in baseball in the last several years, have an elaborate cheating scheme going on. That said, it’s worth noting that the Rockies are 6-3 at Coors Field this season, but 3-10 on the road. Of course, these are small sample sizes and don’t prove anything.
Dodgers rookie catcher Dalton Rushing called the Rockies’ first-pitch success “fishy” after Colorado beat Los Angeles at Coors Field on Saturday.
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The Rockies are also the most aggressive first-pitch swinging team in Major League Baseball. According to StatcastColorado batters swing at the first pitch of a strikeout 38% of the time, which includes both home and away games.
That just sounds like sour grapes from Rushing, a catcher for a team that simply outshines every other team in Major League Baseball.
If any team has an unfair advantage, it’s the Dodgers.
