Bauers Goes 4-for-4, Brewers Batter Dodgers 6-2
Jake Bauers was untouchable Sunday, going 4-for-4 with 2 RBI and a run scored as Milwaukee dismantled Los Angeles 6-2. Logan Henderson made it look easy behind him, holding the Dodgers to 3 hits and 1 earned run over 7 innings.
The Brewers drew first blood in the second inning when a Lara fielder's choice plated Lockridge, aided by an error from Dodgers second baseman Edman that kept the inning alive. It was a scrappy, unclean start — but Milwaukee would take it. The moment that looked like a momentum shift came in the fourth, when Max Muncy launched a 370-foot homer to right to tie the game at 1-1. That swing moved LAD's home win probability from 41% to 56%, a 16-point jump. For a moment, it appeared the Dodgers had steadied themselves.
They hadn't. Bauers and Jackson Chourio systematically dismantled that lead over the next three innings. In the fifth, Bauers singled to right to score Chourio and put Milwaukee back in front. In the seventh, he doubled to center — again scoring Chourio — and then Andrew Vaughn singled to left to bring Bauers home, pushing the lead to 4-1. Chourio finished the night 3-for-5 with 3 runs scored, a relentless presence at the top of the order who made the Dodgers pay every time he reached base. The story of the night was how consistently those two worked in tandem.
The ninth inning turned ugly for Los Angeles in a way that felt definitive. Edman committed his second error of the game on a fielder's choice, allowing both Chourio and Lara to score and extending the Milwaukee lead to 6-1. It was the kind of inning that closes a door. Andy Pages hit a consolation 382-foot homer to left in the bottom half, but it was cosmetic. Henderson's line — 7.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 6 K — looks like the performance of a pitcher who was in complete control from the jump. Tarik Skubal gave the Dodgers 6 innings and 7 strikeouts but allowed 7 hits and couldn't keep Milwaukee's lineup from finding gaps. When your opponent goes 4-for-4 with a perfect night at the plate, the margin for error disappears fast — and Skubal had none to spare.