Dodgers bats remain quiet in loss to Brewers

Well, I will say this. The way the Dodgers are hitting right now makes writing these recaps a lot easier. Other than a home run from AJ Pollock, the Dodgers did literally nothing at the plate in a 3-1 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. In a game that was practically a carbon copy of Thursday’s series opener, the Brewers got a 2-run home run in the early innings and made it hold up through some combination of good Brewers pitching and horrible Dodgers hitting.

Uceta surrenders homer in debut

The Dodgers sent young Edwin Uceta to the mound for his major league debut tonight, and to be honest, the kid didn’t do half bad. He lasted only two innings, but basically looked okay. In the second, he gave up a single to Avisael Garcia, and then in what proved to be the coup de gras for the night, Uceta surrendered a two-run home run to light hitting defensive whiz Jackie Bradley Jr. and the Brewers were up 2-0.

Pollock answers with a solo shot

And there it stayed for most of the night. The only damage that the Dodgers were able to inflict on Brewers pitchers tonight was a home run blast from AJ Pollock in the 5th inning when he managed to run into a Freddy Peralta four seamer and buried it into the cheap seats in left center.

Dodgers pen solid, but gives up late insurance run

Though the Dodger pen kept it close for the entire game, the Brewers did manage to get a cheap run off of Blake Treinen in the eighth, when they were able to cash in a Kolten Wong lead-off double into a run with a couple of ground outs to the right side.

Dodgers hitter go quietly in 9th

It hardly mattered though. Strikeout specialist Josh Hader came into face the heart of the Dodgers order in the top of the ninth, and to be honest, he made them look like a bunch of little leaguers, striking out the side with the help of a few very generous calls from the home plate ump. Final score Brewers 3, Dodgers 1.

Roberts ejected for speaking truth to power

The lone bit of excitement for Dodgers fans came in the late innings when Dave Roberts got himself kicked out of the game for objecting to, of all things, a check swing call made by first base umpire Angel Hernandez. Hopefully, Roberts was able to voice to the notorious Mr. Hernandez the opinion of all right-thinking baseball fans everywhere, which would be something like, “Angel Hernandez. You suck. Please find another line of employment. Quickly.”

Although if Roberts can’t right the Dodgers’ ship quickly, it might be he who will be thinking about job security before the end of the summer. After a 13-2 start, the Dodgers are now 16-11. If my math is correct, they have lost 9 out of the last 12 games. Suboptimal.

Dodgers and Brewers are back at it on Saturday night. 7:10 start. And appropriately enough on May 1, Dustin May will get the ball for the Dodgers. Maybe we can get a few more runs than one next time, boys? Whattaya say?