{"id":1005413,"date":"2026-08-17T00:01:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1005413\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T00:01:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T00:01:24","slug":"dodgers-arent-panicking-after-dropping-series-to-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/1005413\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers aren’t panicking after dropping series to Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Dodgers needed a pivotal win on home soil against the Brewers. And Tarik Skubal<\/a> did his part Sunday afternoon, giving up one earned run on seven hits over six innings.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t enough.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s Logan Henderson quashed the Dodgers\u2019 offense, giving up just three hits and one run over seven innings, to give the Brewers a 6-2 win<\/a> in front of an announced crowd of 45,828.<\/p>\n

The Dodgers<\/a> (74-51) lost the four-game series 3-1 and also dropped the season series against the Brewers 4-3. The Dodgers trail Milwaukee (77-48) by three games for the best record in baseball.<\/p>\n

Yet, the Dodgers aren\u2019t sounding the alarm with 37 games left.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re going against the best team in baseball right now, and you want to gain ground and try to get one of the first two spots,\u201d Miguel Rojas<\/a> said before the game. \u201cI feel like our motivation is the bigger picture \u2014 the big goal \u2014 and that\u2019s when Skubal comes into play.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not about winning this series. It\u2019s about how well we\u2019re going to be constructed for October and a deeper run in the playoffs. And we all know what it takes to be there and to get there and to play deep in October.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Brewers struck first with two outs in the second inning after Luis Lara grounded into a bases-loaded fielder\u2019s choice; Tommy Edman<\/a> dropped an awkward flip to second base from Mookie Betts<\/a>, resulting in an error and a 1-0 Milwaukee lead.<\/p>\n

Max Muncy<\/a> got to Henderson in the fourth by hitting a tying home run 370 feet to right field. In the next inning, Milwaukee\u2019s Jake Bauers hit a go-ahead single to right off Skubal, scoring Jackson Chourio from second after his double.<\/p>\n

The Brewers added two insurance runs in the seventh, as Bauers and Andrew Vaughn collected a pair of RBI knocks against left-handed reliever Alex Vesia. They got two more in the ninth after a second bases-loaded error by Edman came when he failed to field a choppy ground ball from David Hamilton, allowing Chourio and Lara to score.<\/p>\n

\"Milwaukee's <\/p>\n

Milwaukee\u2019s Jake Bauers beats a tag attempt by Dodgers catcher Ben Rortvedt to score in the seventh inning Sunday.<\/p>\n

(Eric Thayer \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

The Dodgers had a chance to crawl closer with one out in the eighth, with Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez on third and Hunter Feduccia on first. But Shohei Ohtani grounded into a double play against Brewers reliever Aaron Ashby. Andy Pages hit a solo home run in the ninth.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know how good they are, but we also know how good we are,\u201d said Dodgers reliever Brock Stewart before the game. \u201cSo it\u2019s been fun to match up with them. But I think the real tell will be once we play in the playoffs because they swept us during the regular season last year and then we got them in the playoffs.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou never really know until playoff time, [when] there are no empty seats, the place is loud as hell, and the games just mean more. … It\u2019s fun to match up with them in the regular season \u2026 kind of a measuring stick of where we\u2019re at and kind of what we need to do to be better.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Dodgers <\/p>\n

Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts walks back to the dugout after striking out in the seventh inning.<\/p>\n

(Eric Thayer \/ Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n

The results weren\u2019t there for the Dodgers as they head into Colorado for a three-game series against the last-place Rockies.<\/p>\n

But if there\u2019s any silver lining, it\u2019s that Skubal seems to be acclimating just fine in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s been great,\u201d Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said of Skubal on Saturday. \u201cHe\u2019s been very proactive, intentional, trying to learn his teammates, and he\u2019s out on the bench all the time. He\u2019s great in the weight room. I hear he\u2019s great on the airplane. He just loves talking baseball [and] getting to know his guys.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo, again, very intentional. He\u2019s been fantastic.\u201d<\/p>\n

Injury updates<\/p>\n

The Dodgers placed left-handed starter Justin Wrobleski on the 15-day injured list with left forearm inflammation and recalled right-handed reliever Kyle Hurt from triple-A Oklahoma City. Wrobleski, who has pitched a career-high 126\u2153 innings this season, surrendered four runs and four hits in a loss against the Brewers on Saturday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel all right,\u201d said Wrobleski, a first-time All-Star, about his season-long stamina after his last outing. \u201cIt\u2019s just part of a long season … just trying to lean on people that have done it. Just trying to take care of my body the best I can.\u201d<\/p>\n

Wrobleski has struggled as of late, giving up 11 home runs over his past four starts.<\/p>\n

Stewart, who was placed on the 15-day IL with right shoulder discomfort on July 31, said he\u2019ll join the Dodgers on their upcoming road trip to Colorado and is hopeful he\u2019ll be activated soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Dodgers needed a pivotal win on home soil against the Brewers. And Tarik Skubal did his part…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1005414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5123],"tags":[591,53298,20417,1582,276,2442,1910,352291,3688,117313,2961,224,5337,349571,6375,22299,1424,6166,34551,6599],"class_list":["post-1005413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-baseball","tag-brewer","tag-brewers","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-dodgers","tag-game","tag-home-soil","tag-inning","tag-jake-bauers","tag-la","tag-los-angeles","tag-losangeles","tag-luis-lara","tag-milwaukee","tag-october","tag-playoff","tag-series","tag-tarik-skubal","tag-tommy-edman"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/117107917996080957","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1005413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1005413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1005414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1005413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1005413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1005413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}