DENVER — The Dodgers checked in to Coors Field on Monday. They finally took advantage of its amenities on Wednesday.

Home runs by Freddie Freeman, Will Smith and Cody Bellinger highlighted an 11-hit night as the Dodgers beat the Colorado Rockies, 8-4, to avoid a three-game sweep in Denver.

The Dodgers were shut out on Monday and managed a total of just 12 hits while losing the first two games of the series. Add the season-opening series loss and the Dodgers had scored a total of 15 runs and batted .219 as a team while losing four of their first five games at Coors Field this year.

“I try and look at the big picture,” Freeman said. “I look at the 6-3 road trip more than the 1-2 series, for me. So obviously, we know we haven’t scored that many runs here, but it’s nice to get out of here with the series salvaged.”

The salvage operation started early. Freeman, the second batter of the game, hit the first pitch he saw from Rockies starter German Marquez over the center-field wall for a solo home run.

They scored three more times in the second inning with Marquez walking two and giving up a two-run double to Trea Turner high off the screen in right-center field.

Marquez lasted into the fourth inning, giving up another run on an RBI single by Eddy Alvarez before exiting with a blister on his pitching hand.

“In the hitters’ meeting, we just talked about trying to get on the heater and get on the heater early in the counts,” Freeman said. “That’s what we tried to establish tonight. And we were able to do that.”

Freeman led off the fifth inning with his second hit of the game, a single, and trotted home when Smith launched a 429-foot drive into the left-field seats.

As the Dodgers’ offense has swooned through June, it has been left to the trio at the top – Turner, Freeman and Smith – to do most of the heavy lifting.

Turner has hit .327 (35 for 107) this month with six home runs, six doubles, 18 runs scored and 13 RBIs. After entering the month batting .231 with five home runs, Smith has six home runs in June and is batting .304 (28 for 92) for the month.

Freeman has a 13-game hitting streak wrapped around his emotional return to Atlanta and is 33 for 104 (.317) this month.

“It’s pretty remarkable,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “I guess he just has a unique way of compartmentalizing the emotions with performance.”

Bellinger’s home run came in the eighth inning with a brief rainstorm drenching Coors Field.

Julio Urias has had a pretty good June as well, making his case for inclusion on the National League All-Star team.

“He got my All-Star vote today because he’s been pitching like one all year,” Freeman said.

Urias held the Rockies to one run in the first five innings Wednesday before stumbling in the sixth inning. In his five starts this month, Urias was 3-1 with a 2.20 ERA and 0.87 WHIP.

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Watching video from his 20-win season helped him be “just really consistent” with his delivery in June and the results have followed, Urias said.

“I made some adjustments with my mechanics and that’s allowed me to be more consistent with my command and be able to get through the games the way I have,” he said through an interpreter.

“I felt last year I had a really good year. … Just looking back at things I did really well last year.”

The Dodgers now head home for a four-game series with the San Diego Padres, trailing them by 1½ games in the NL West. It is “a big series,” Roberts acknowledged.

“I don’t know where we are in the standings. I know we’re leading,” he said. “But they’re gonna come with some energy, as we’ve seen. We’ve got to match it. We’ve got to play good baseball. Either way, we still have a lot of baseball to play but certainly, we want to play our best baseball this series.”