Garrett Mitchell singled in the bottom of the second inning to drive in Jake Bauers, giving the Brewers an early 1-0 lead, but the Los Angeles Dodgers rallied for a 5-1 win in the series finale in Milwaukee on Sunday.
The game turned in the top of the fifth, when Kyle Tucker tripled to score Mookie Betts and Freddie Freeman and Andy Pages followed on the very next pitch with a two-run home run, turning a one-run deficit into a four-run fifth that proved decisive in the 5-1 final.
Yoshinobu Yamamoto anchored the Dodgers on the mound, throwing seven innings, allowing seven hits and recording three strikeouts. It was the first time this season Yamamoto earned a winning decision while tossing at least seven innings, and his outing helped the Dodgers finish a nine-game road trip 7-2, a trip during which the club averaged 6.3 runs per game.
The Brewers’ lone run came in a two-out sequence in the bottom of the second: Jake Bauers was hit by a pitch, Garrett Mitchell singled, and Sal Frelick plated Bauers on a fielder’s choice. The Dodgers had been held scoreless through the first three innings before Miguel Rojas reached on a wild pitch in the top of the fourth that allowed Teoscar Hernández to score and tie the game at 1-1, setting the stage for the fifth-inning surge.
The victory in Milwaukee was more than one night’s result: it gave the Dodgers their first series win in Milwaukee since July 2024 and extended their franchise-record scoreless streak against opponents to 38 innings. The series finale also capped the Dodgers’ nine-game road trip, a sequence of games that produced a 7-2 record and sustained offensive production after a slow start in some early road dates.
Tension in the game came from the contrast between pitching performances. The Brewers’ starter, Brandon Sproat, struck out seven Dodgers, keeping Los Angeles off the board through three innings and making the game feel tighter than the final score indicated. On the other side, Yamamoto — who had left his last regular-season start in Milwaukee early after giving up six runs — managed a markedly different result on Sunday with seven innings of work and a win.
The collision of those two threads — Sproat’s swing-and-miss stuff and Yamamoto’s bounce-back endurance — is the game’s real takeaway. The Dodgers broke through against Milwaukee pitching in the fifth with two of their middle-order bats doing damage on consecutive pitches: a run-scoring triple by Tucker followed instantly by Pages’ two-run homer. That burst erased the Brewers’ lead and left Milwaukee with only a second-inning run to show for its efforts.
The most consequential unanswered question now is whether Yamamoto’s seven-inning outing in Milwaukee is the start of a sustained correction of the issues that ended his previous regular-season start there in six runs and an early exit. If he can string together more starts like Sunday’s — long outings that limit baserunners and keep his team in position to win — the Dodgers’ pitching depth gains a stabilizing element that mattered across a productive road trip.
For Garrett Mitchell, the night was an early highlight in an otherwise losing effort: his second-inning single produced Milwaukee’s only run and briefly put the Brewers in front. The game’s arc — a brief Milwaukee advantage erased by a four-run fifth and a steady seven-inning performance from Yamamoto — left the Dodgers with a series win in Milwaukee for the first time since July 2024 and closed their road swing on a high note.
