Jeff Birney
Dodgers Take Series From Brewers
The Dodgers took two of three from the Brewers, wrapping the series in Milwaukee on Sunday with an 11-2 victory.
L.A. made up for a sloppy defensive day on Saturday, where Max Muncy made two of the three errors and Dodger bats stayed quiet throughout most of the game, allowing the Brewers to snap a seven-game skid.
A different team showed up Sunday.
Early innings didn’t look good as the Brewers had quite a bit of traffic on base in the first, and got two runs off starter Alex Wood. That would be the only runs Milwaukee put on the board though, as the Dodgers started off hot with an absolute bomb by Matt Kemp in the second. Kemp went on to homer again in the third.
L.A. bats stayed busy through the fifth, putting together the second five-run inning of the game after Muncy reached on a fielding error by first baseman Ryan Braun.
The Brewers shamelessly gave up on the game in the late innings, putting up two position players to pitch. Ironically neither (Hernan Perez nor Erik Kratz) gave up any runs, although Austin Barnes did take a 48 mph breaking-ish ball on the back to reach in the top of the seventh (I didn’t think StatCast could register balls that slow…)
L.A. remains in 1st place, 1.5 games ahead of Colorado. Arizona beat the Rockies on Sunday.
The Dodgers head east on Monday for three versus the Phillies.
