LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers trailed by five runs in the third, but they got two home runs from Cody Bellinger and scored five runs on four Adam Ottavino wild pitches in the seventh and eighth innings to stun the Rockies, 11-6, for their season-high 10th straight victory on Sunday at Dodger Stadium.
It was Bellinger's sixth multihomer game, which is a Dodgers rookie record and one shy of the Major League rookie record Mark McGwire set in 1987.
 
 
Dodgers score 5 runs on wild pitches, win 10th straight
 
The 21-year-old leads the National League with 25 home runs on the season. The Dodgers have homered in 17 consecutive games and have hit 43 in June.
The Dodgers were trailing, 6-4, in the seventh when Rockies reliever Jake McGee gave up a one-out single to Justin Turner and a two-out double to Logan Forsythe. Rockies manager Bud Black had seen enough and summoned Ottavino to close the door on the Dodgers rally, but the righty walked Austin Barnes to load the bases and fired two wild pitches that scored a total of three runs and gave L.A. its first lead.
Dodgers right-hander Brandon McCarthy threw 64 pitches in three innings, giving up five runs (four earned) on four hits, but he outlasted Rockies starter Tyler Anderson.
Anderson, who was activated off the disabled list Thursday, was removed from the game when his knee injury flared up with one out in the third. Anderson had allowed two-run homers to Kiké Hernandez and Bellinger as the Dodgers made it a 5-4 game, when Black and a trainer emerged from the dugout and removed the right-hander after watching him throw some warmup pitches.
Thomas Harding and Joshua Thornton / MLB.com
 

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