Dodgers Finally Clinch: Dodgers 5, Rockies 0

After what seemed like a week and a half of failed attempts, listless offense and sagging starting pitching, the Dodgers finally came around and found an opponent they could beat. Oddly, it wasn't Rockies' starter Jorge De La Rosa, who wasn't super sharp the way Clayton Kershaw (mostly) was; De La Rosa got knocked out before the fourth started with a groin strain, but that was likely the best possible scenario for the Dodgers. Like a magic spell snapping, the Rockies' replacement, the aging and inexplicably uniformed Jose Contreras came into the game. Dodging and weaving his own incompetence like a hack golfer (he gave up four hits and a walk in only three innings of work), he miraculously exited the game without any damage and the game still knotted in a scoreless tie. But the taste of offense seemed to awaken the Dodgers' bats, and demoted starter Franklin Morales proved to be the victim, responsible for all five Dodger runs. In that he was lucky, because Mat...