DENVER -- Sometimes, all it takes is one inning to turn a potential letdown into a bona fide blowout.The Dodgers danced their way out of trouble all evening before erupting for eight runs in the sixth to secure an 11-3 win over the Rockies at Coors Field on Monday, temporarily adding to their three-game lead in the National League West over the Giants, who were playing the D-backs in Phoenix.The victory is the Dodgers' eighth in their last 10 games and the 11 runs bring their total up to 32 over the team's last three games. 
With the score tied at 3, the Dodgers sent 12 to the plate in the sixth as seven players reached before the first out was registered.Rockies right-hander Christian Bergman began the frame looking to build on his career-high seven strikeouts. But a hit batter and two singles later, he was pulled for left-hander Rex Brothers.Brothers was only able to total two pitches before the Dodgers relegated him to the bench as well. On his first offering, Justin Turner delivered a two-run, pinch-hit double. Dee Gordon then poked Brothers' second fastball out to the opposite field for an RBI single.Right-hander Nick Masset came on from there only to be delivered a similar fate at the hands of the Dodgers. By the time Los Angeles' reign was over, Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez, Carl Crawford and Juan Uribe had each tallied at least one RBI off Masset.Gonzalez, who also doubled in a run in the fifth, finished 2-for-5 with three RBIs, giving him 106 to overtake the Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton for the NL lead.Although eight runs is enough to erase most deficits, the Dodgers were fortunate to not find themselves trailing entering that frame.Right-hander Roberto Hernandez lasted just 3 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on six hits, and his outing likely would have been even shorter had the Rockies not run into two outs trying to take home from third.In the fourth, Hernandez loaded the bases with one out. Manager Don Mattingly allowed him to stay in for one more batter but after Hernandez rang up Bergman, he took a seat.On to face Charlie Blackmon, left-hander Paco Rodriguez got the better of the lefty-lefty matchup by forcing the Rockies All-Star to ground into a fielder's choice to short.Matt Kemp hit his second homer in as many days with one on in the first to put the Dodgers on the board.Cody Ulm / MLB.com
With the score tied at 3, the Dodgers sent 12 to the plate in the sixth as seven players reached before the first out was registered.Rockies right-hander Christian Bergman began the frame looking to build on his career-high seven strikeouts. But a hit batter and two singles later, he was pulled for left-hander Rex Brothers.Brothers was only able to total two pitches before the Dodgers relegated him to the bench as well. On his first offering, Justin Turner delivered a two-run, pinch-hit double. Dee Gordon then poked Brothers' second fastball out to the opposite field for an RBI single.Right-hander Nick Masset came on from there only to be delivered a similar fate at the hands of the Dodgers. By the time Los Angeles' reign was over, Adrian Gonzalez, Hanley Ramirez, Carl Crawford and Juan Uribe had each tallied at least one RBI off Masset.Gonzalez, who also doubled in a run in the fifth, finished 2-for-5 with three RBIs, giving him 106 to overtake the Marlins' Giancarlo Stanton for the NL lead.Although eight runs is enough to erase most deficits, the Dodgers were fortunate to not find themselves trailing entering that frame.Right-hander Roberto Hernandez lasted just 3 2/3 innings, allowing two runs on six hits, and his outing likely would have been even shorter had the Rockies not run into two outs trying to take home from third.In the fourth, Hernandez loaded the bases with one out. Manager Don Mattingly allowed him to stay in for one more batter but after Hernandez rang up Bergman, he took a seat.On to face Charlie Blackmon, left-hander Paco Rodriguez got the better of the lefty-lefty matchup by forcing the Rockies All-Star to ground into a fielder's choice to short.Matt Kemp hit his second homer in as many days with one on in the first to put the Dodgers on the board.Cody Ulm / MLB.com
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