DENVER –– The Dodgerslost back-to-back gamesto the Colorado Rockies this weekend.

One of them came with some eyebrow-raising claims.

On Saturday night, afterthe Rockies ambushed Dodgers reliever Will Kleinwith early swings in a go-ahead, two-run, sixth-inning rally, catcher Dalton Rushing said something about the inning felt “fishy” in the moment.

“I think they had a good game plan as the opposing team, and maybe I pitched into their game plan as far as calling pitches,” said Rushing, the team’s second-year backup catcher. “I’m not 100 percent sure. I think it’s odd that some of those hitters that do what they do, they go up there and they’re on the first pitch that was thrown. So it’s a little fishy, but I’ll wear it.”

Just as a controversy might have been brewing, however, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was rather definitive in squashing the narrative the following afternoon.

“I saw some bad breaking balls,” he said when asked about Rushing’s comments Sunday. “So, I don’t think there was anything fishy behind it. I think there were some bad pitches.”

Asked Dave Roberts if he saw anything “fishy” during Will Klein’s outing last night (in which the Rockies hit three sliders/sweepers)He was rather definitive: “I saw some bad breaking balls, so I don’t think there was anything fishy behind it.”https://t.co/pUEYr0R1Kd

Indeed, in hindsight, Roberts’ explanation seems more likely than Rushing’s.

During the sixth inning in question, when the Rockies led off with a double, a single and a two-run double against Klein to take the lead in their eventual 4-3 win, all three of Klein’s pitches that were hit were sliders or sweepers left in the strike zone.

Only one came on a first-pitch swing, with Ezequiel Tovar smoking a ground-ball single off a center-cut sweeper. The only two hitters actually took the first pitch, with Hunter Goodman hitting his double on a 1-0 sweeper up in the zone and Troy Johnston plating two runs by pulling an 2-1 slider on the inner edge of the plate into the right-center field gap for a go-ahead double.

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