Rookie Walker Buehler, Dodgers top Rockies for NL West title

LOS ANGELES — Rookie Walker Buehler tossed one-hit ball into the seventh inning, Cody Bellinger and Max Muncy launched two-run homers, and the Dodgers beat Colorado 5-2 in a tiebreaker to earn their record sixth consecutive NL West title.

The defending NL champion Dodgers became the first major-league team to win six straight division crowns since the Yankees took nine AL East titles in a row from 1998 through 2006.

Los Angeles next hosts Atlanta in the best-of-five NL Division Series beginning Thursday.

Denied their first division title in franchise history, the Rockies head to Wrigley Field to play the Cubs in the NL wild-card game Tuesday night.