Shohei Ohtani homers, goes 4 for 5, leads Dodgers to 11-4 rout of Rockies

It was a glorious Friday night at Coors Field. Unless, of course, you played for the Rockies, who were blasted 11-4.

But if you were a blue-clad Dodgers fan — and there were plenty of them — it provided a chance to cheer on a team that locked up the National League West title for the 11th time in the last 12 seasons by defeating the Padres Thursday night.

And if you were simply a fan of baseball legends, you got to see Shohei Ohtani continue his supernatural season.

The Dodgers’ designated hitter, who’s a lock to win National League MVP, supplied the in-game pyrotechnics long before the postgame fireworks that drew an announced sellout crowd of 48,750 to the ballpark.

Ohtani hit 4 for 5, slugged a three-run homer to the second deck above right field in the sixth inning, drove in four runs, and stole his 57th base. His homer was his 54th. He’s swiped 34 consecutive bags without getting thrown out.

Wait, there’s more. Ohtani stole a base and homered in the same game for the 16th time this season, extending his major league record. And he has an OPS of 1.041.

Chants of “MVP!” greeted Ohtani after his 436-foot moonshot off reliever Anthony Molina.

Ohtani is sizzling. He extended his hitting streak to a season-high 10 games. Over his last eight games, he’s hitting .706 (24 for 34), with six doubles, six homers, 20 RBIs and eight steals.

Asked if the ball sounds different coming off Ohtani’s bat, Rockies manager Bud Black answered, “He’s got tremendous strength, he’s a big physical guy and his bat speed is near the top of all hitters. That equates to exit velocity when he barrels the ball.

“With all great hitters, there is a little bit different sound but I don’t know if he’s different from other great hitters. Probably not.”

The Rockies, who are 3-7 against Los Angeles this season, took another shaky step toward their second consecutive 100-loss season. With a 61-99 record, they must beat the Dodgers in the season’s final two games to avoid the ignominy of triple-digit losses.

While the Rockies thanked their fans with fireworks and their 99th loss, Detroit earned an American League wild-card berth Friday night to end a decade-long postseason drought. And Kansas City, a team that matched a franchise record with 106 losses last season, also clinched an AL wild-card spot, making the postseason for the first time since winning the 2015 World Series.

But for the Rockies, the beatings go on.

It was an ugly final start of the season for right-hander Cal Quantrill, who got the hook after only 3 1/3 innings. Friday marked the only start of his career in which he did not get a strikeout. He got just two swings-and-misses out of his 73 pitches.

“These last three starts, after my stint on the (injured list), I haven’t been able to find my rhythm,” Quantrill said. “That’s too bad. I did everything I could to find it and make some in-game adjustments (tonight).

“It’s too bad I had to finish like this. I think I had a better season than the numbers show. But that’s baseball.”

The Dodgers, who pounded out 15 hits, raked Quantrill for seven of them, including a two-run blast to left by Teoscar Hernandez in the first inning and a leadoff homer by Andy Pages in the fourth.

“He was not sharp,” Black said. “It looked like Cal couldn’t really repeat pitches. The back-breaker was the hanging curveball, 3-2, to Hernandez in the first inning.

“Cal couldn’t really seem to get on track with any of his pitches. It was a rough outing for Cal and you hate to see him end his season that way. You want to see him end it with a nice statement but tonight it didn’t happen.”

Quantrill finished his season 8-11 with a 4.98 ERA. The right-hander, who began the season so strong, has faltered. Over his last 15 starts, he’s served up 15 home runs and had a 6.88 ERA.