​After placing the tag and seeing the home-plate umpire signal safe, Dodgers catcher Dalton Rushing immediately directed attention to the Dodgers’ dugout, urging manager Dave Roberts to challenge the call. Roberts cupped his hands around his ears, signaling for a replay review. Then came the announcement: “The catcher touched the runner’s hand before he reached the plate…” The crowd’s applause overwhelmed the rest of the message. The potential go-ahead run hung in the balance with that challenge, as the Dodgers ultimately beat the Rockies 8-7 in 11 innings. That moment set off a wild sequence that marked Dodgers’ first extra-innings game of the season and culminated in Rushing delivering a walk-off single to center field to score Teoscar Hernández.
Earlier in the game, Dodgers closer Tanner Scott entered the ninth inning with a three-run cushion, but he surrendered an RBI double to Kyle Karros and a bases-loaded double to Cole Carrigg, blowing the lead. A successful replay challenge by the Dodgers kept the score tied, preventing a dramatic swing in the late frame. The Rockies briefly answered with their own challenge, alleging Rushing blocked the plate, but the replay again favored Los Angeles.
Max Muncy led off the bottom of the ninth with a single, and Tommy Edman laid down a sacrifice bunt to move him into scoring position. After Rushing struck out on a foul tip, the Rockies walked Shohei Ohtani intentionally. That brought up Andy Pages with two outs, but an ABS challenge by Colorado confirmed a strikeout, pushing the game into the 10th inning. It had been 91 games since the Dodgers last played in extra innings—the second-longest such drought in Major League Baseball history.
Within minutes of the 10th inning’s start, benches cleared. With one out and Carrigg on third, Jake McCarthy hit a sharp grounder to Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman. He stepped on the bag and threw home, but Rushing’s sweeping tag left Carrigg safe. Rushing applied a further tag as Carrigg rose, just to be sure. Carrigg muttered something as he walked away, prompting a verbal exchange that drew in Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy and, soon after, players from both dugouts and bullpens onto the field. Dodgers reliever Edgardo Henriquez stepped in to separate the catchers, pulling Rushing away from the heated moment, though the tension lingered as play resumed.
The Dodgers would not be done, though. With Pages on second to begin the inning, Freeman advanced him to third on a groundout, and Mookie Betts delivered a go-ahead run with a grounder through the right side, back up the mountain of scrambling defenders as Edouard Julien frantically chased the play. The sequence featured pauses, challenges, and a crowd that remained on edge as the drama unfolded late in a marathon tilt.
Throughout the ensuing exchanges, the Dodgers continued to press, using timely hitting, strategic small-ball, and contentious but ultimately decisive reviews to tilt the balance in their favor. The game’s momentum swung on a series of close calls, challenges, and pivotal at-bats, culminating in a late-inning rally that would be remembered as one of the season’s most chaotic and dramatic finishes.