Puig’s homer cements sweep

LOS ANGELES» The Scott Oberg market has been bullish for so long, its bubble was bound to burst eventually.

It did so in the most critical moment of the Rockies’ season so far, as Colorado’s most reliable reliever over the past monthplus surrendered a monstrous pinchhit, threerun homer to Yasiel Puig in Los Angeles’ 52, sweepclinching victory.

With 10 games to play, the tough defeat at Dodger Stadium dropped Colorado to 2K games behind Los Angeles in the NL West race and kept them 1K behind the Cardinals for the second wild card with St. Louis’ loss earlier in the day.

The stumbling Colorado offense came out with an edge in the loss, making Los Angeles starter Walker Buehler sweat by loading the bases with no outs in the opening inning.

But the rookie Buehler somewhat limited the damage, as Ian Desmond’s twoout, twoRBI sin gle was the lone critical punch in a 36pitch frame that could have been much worse for Los Angeles.

Working with a 20 lead, Tyler Anderson set the Dodgers down in order in the bottom of the first, but surrendered his 12th home run since Aug. 1 (one behind Jon Gray for the NL lead in that span) to Matt Kemp in the second inning that cut Colorado’s advantage to 21.

With his 20th longball of the season, launched in a nodoubt manner 425 feet to left, Kemp con