Dodgers Gut Brewers as Offense Goes into Overdrive

Dodgers Gut Brewers as Offense Goes into Overdrive

Let’s get this alternative slug out of the way now: Blackjack! Dodgers score three touchdowns in victory over Brewers!

Last night’s destruction of the Brewers started off as a near replay of Wednesday night’s game, with the Brewers getting a run early on a wild pitch by Clayton Kershaw. The similarities ended there though, as L.A. came right back in the bottom of the first with a long ball from Joc Pederson.

The Dodgers scored again on a Manny Machado single in the third. The floodgates opened later in the inning as Cody Bellinger homered for a grand slam off the right field foul pole to get the Dodgers ahead 6-1.

Yasiel Puig got a solo shot in the fourth, and the newest Dodger Brian Dozier continued to impress, getting a three-run dinger in the fifth.

The Dodgers were far from done, but the Brewers were. The seventh inning turned into batting practice as Justin Turner (fresh off the DL) got a two-run shot, Pederson homered again for three followed by a flurry of hits and runs for almost every Dodger that came to the plate.

For the second time in as many weeks, the Brewers threw in the towel and put infielder Hernan Perez in to pitch. Puig homered for two to bring the Dodgers up, 21-5.

Erik Kratz (the Brewer’s catcher… usually) pitched the bottom of the eighth and held the Dodgers to their 21 runs. Pedro Baez shut the door to finish off the ninth. The Dodgers hold first place alone, with Arizona one game back in the NL West.

The 2017 World Series rematch is tonight as the Dodgers face the Astros for three.

Game time is 7:10 pm, PST.