Todd Helton homered to back Jorge De La Rosa’s winning effort, and the Colorado Rockies snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers’ six-game winning streak with a 7-5 victory Wednesday night in Denver.
Todd Helton homered to back Jorge De La Rosa’s winning effort, and the Colorado Rockies snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers’ six-game winning streak with a 7-5 victory Wednesday night in Denver.Chris Schneider/Associated Press

DENVER – Jorge De La Rosa pitched six strong innings to win his sixth consecutive decision, Todd Helton homered, and the Colorado Rockies snapped the Los Angeles Dodgers’ six-game winning streak with a 7-5 victory Wednesday night.

De La Rosa (16-6) allowed two runs and six hits in matching his career high for wins in a season and tying Washington’s Jordan Zimmermann for most wins in the National League. De La Rosa went 16-9 in 2009 for the Rockies.

Colorado built an early lead off Edinson Volquez, who was making his first start for L.A. after being signed last week by the Dodgers after his release by San Diego.

Volquez (9-11) allowed four runs and six hits in four innings in falling to 0-5 in six starts against Colorado this season.

Rockies rookie third baseman Nolan Arenado left after the fourth inning with a right thumb contusion. The team characterized his availability as day to day.

After the Dodgers pulled to 4-2 on Scott Van Slyke’s bases-loaded double play grounder in the sixth, the Rockies extended their lead to 7-2 in the seventh on an RBI single by Josh Rutledge, a sacrifice fly by Troy Tulowitzki and a balk by Carlos Marmol that brought Rutledge home from third.

The Dodgers rallied for three runs in the eighth off Matt Belisle. Michael Young had his second RBI single of the game, and one out later, second baseman Rutledge booted A.J. Ellis’ grounder for an error. Juan Uribe followed with an RBI double, and Skip Schumaker had an RBI single.

Manuel Corpas relieved, and struck out pinch-hitters Carl Crawford and Yasiel Puig to end the inning. Rex Brothers pitched a scoreless ninth for his 15th save in 16 chances, helped by a running catch of Hanley Ramirez’s drive at the warning track in left field by Carlos Gonzalez, who entered in the final inning as a defensive replacement.

The Rockies put up at least one run against Volquez in each of his first three innings, starting with an RBI double by Tulowitzki in the first. Tulowitzki took third on a wild pitch and scored on Michael Cuddyer’s sacrifice fly.

Helton drove a 2-2 pitch from Volquez into the Rockies’ bullpen beyond the center-field fence for his 12th home run to put the Rockies up 3-1 in the second.

A botched rundown in the third led to the Rockies’ fourth run. Rutledge, who had tripled ahead of Tulowitzki’s double, singled to start the inning and advanced to second on a passed ball by Ellis.

Tulowitzki grounded to short, and with Rutledge breaking for third, Ramirez tried to get the lead runner by throwing the ball to third baseman Uribe. Rutledge retreated to second, managing to outrun Uribe and elude his lunging tag by diving back into the bag as Tulowitzki reached first.

Cuddyer followed with a run-scoring single for a 4-1 lead.

Rockies rumpus

LHP Hyun-Jin Ryu was scratched by the Dodgers from his scheduled start Friday at Cincinnati because of a back injury. RHP Chris Capuano (4-7) will start in his place against the Reds’ Mike Leake (11-6). The Dodgers will travel to Cincinnati on Thursday, an off day. … Yasiel Puig was out of the starting lineup for a second consecutive game while resting a right knee strain but did get an at-bat in the eighth as a pinch-hitter. … Colorado went 5-4 during its homestand. After an off day, the Rockies will open a nine-game road trip Friday at San Diego with Juan Nicasio (8-7) facing the Padres’ Burch Smith (0-1). … Rockies RHP Roy Oswalt, who is on the DL with a left hamstring strain, had a successful rehab start Tuesday night with rookie-level Grand Junction and could be activated by the Rockies sometime this weekend.