THE GAME: The Dodgers were held to five hits in a 2-0 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Thursday afternoon at Salt River Fields in Scottsdale, Arizona.
HITTING REPORT: Freddie Freeman made his first start of the spring and went 1 for 3 with a single and two flyouts as the DH. … Michael Conforto started the spring 0 for 8 with four strikeouts, but he broke that hitless start with a double Thursday and also drew a walk. … Justin Dean, Austin Barnes and Griffin Lockwood-Powell had the other hits, all singles.
PITCHING REPORT: Landon Knack went the first 1⅓ innings and struggled with the command of his secondary pitches. He gave up two hits and a walk but no runs. … Kirby Yates, Blake Treinen and Tanner Scott each made their second appearances of the spring. Yates gave up the Rockies’ first run on doubles by Brenton Doyle and Ezequiel Tovar and didn’t finish the inning. Scott gave up the second run on an RBI double by Hunter Goodman. … Treinen pitched a scoreless sixth inning and Anthony Banda struck out the side in a 1-2-3 eighth.
FAMILY TIME: For the second time in four days, brothers exchanged the lineup cards before the Dodgers’ Cactus League game. On Monday, Matt and Sean McLain did the honors before the Reds-Dodgers game in Goodyear. Matt is the Reds’ second baseman and Sean, a minor-league prospect, started at shortstop for the Dodgers that day. Before Thursday’s game, Jared and Kyle Karros exchanged the lineup cards for the Dodgers and Rockies. Jared Karros is a pitching prospect in the Dodgers’ system. Younger brother Kyle is a third baseman in the Rockies’ organization. The two played together for two years at UCLA. Jared pitched a scoreless inning with two strikeouts for the Dodgers on Thursday. Kyle was 1 for 2 with a single. Their father is longtime Dodgers first baseman Eric Karros.
UP NEXT: Angels (LHP Yusei Kikuchi) at Dodgers (RHP Dustin May), Friday, 5 p.m. PT, at Camelback Ranch, SportsNet LA, MLB Network (out of network only), 570 AM