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MILWAUKEE –– The Dodgers have had no problem beating the Brewers in the playoffs in recent years.
The regular season, however, had been a different story.
Entering Saturday’s game at American Family Field, the Dodgers hadn’t recorded aregular-season victory over Milwaukeesince Aug. 13, 2024.
Nine straight times since then, they had lost to their smaller-market –– and much less-well-funded –– fellow National League contenders, their longest active streak against any opponent.
Finally, that rut finally ended with an 11-3 win Saturday, on a night the Dodgers came from behind before making club history.
Down three runs straight out of the gate after a 35-pitch first inningfrom Roki Sasaki, the Dodgers surged in front with a four-run rally in the fourth; keyed by doubles from Freddie Freeman and Andy Pages, then a go-ahead three-run blast from Teoscar Hernández clanged off the left-field foul pole.
Hernández would help the team pull away late, as well, matching his MLB career-high with six RBIs after a run-scoring single in a three-run eighth and a two-run single in a four-run ninth. Overall, the Dodgers finished with 10 hits and a season-high 11 walks. It was their third time scoring double-digit runs in the last week.
In between all that, the team watchedSasaki settle downto complete a five-inning outing without any further damage, then turned the lead over to their recently flawless bullpen the rest of the way.
With four more scoreless frames Saturday, the club’s relief corps has now gone 36 innings without giving up a run. That broke the franchise’s previous record-long bullpen streak, surpassing a 33-inning run from the club’s 1998 team.
Source: California Post – Breaking California News, Photos & Videos
