{"id":692491,"date":"2026-05-25T00:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692491\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T00:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T00:47:10","slug":"yamamoto-shines-in-milwaukee-again-as-dodgers-defeat-brewers-5-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/692491\/","title":{"rendered":"Yamamoto shines in Milwaukee again as Dodgers defeat Brewers 5-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Andy Pages hit a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dodgers\/status\/2058634708716814469\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">two-run homer<\/a> immediately after Kyle Tucker delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Dodgers\/status\/2058634135472939494\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">tiebreaking two-run triple<\/a> in the fifth inning to back up Yoshinobu Yamamoto&#8217;s strong pitching as the Los Angeles Dodgers defeated the Milwaukee Brewers 5-1 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles won two of three in Milwaukee this weekend to cap a 7-2 trip. The Brewers had gone 6-0-1 over their last seven series before losing this one.<\/p>\n<p>Yamamoto (4-4) allowed one run over seven innings while facing the Brewers for the first time since throwing a three-hitter in Game 2 of last season&#8217;s NL Championship Series, another 5-1 Dodgers triumph in Milwaukee. <\/p>\n<p>Will Klein worked the eighth and Tanner Scott pitched the ninth as Los Angeles&#8217; bullpen extended its modern-day franchise record streak of scoreless innings to 38. According to Sportradar, the last time any major league bullpen had this long a streak was in September 2017, when Cleveland relievers threw 39 straight scoreless innings.<\/p>\n<p>The game was tied 1-all when Los Angeles&#8217; Mookie Betts led off the fifth inning with a single off Brandon Sproat, who then walked Freddie Freeman before leaving the game. Tucker greeted Shane Drohan by sending a 3-2 pitch just inside the right-field line to score Betts and Freeman.<\/p>\n<p>Pages drove Drohan&#8217;s next pitch over the left-field wall to extend the Dodgers&#8217; lead to 5-1. The 380-foot blast was the first homer Drohan has allowed, and it came on the rookie&#8217;s 10th career appearance.<\/p>\n<p>Sproat (1-3) continually pitched out of trouble until running out of gas in the fifth.<\/p>\n<p>The Dodgers left two men on base in three of the first four innings. They got one run in the fourth when Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez scored on a wild pitch after Sproat hit Miguel Rojas with a pitch to load the bases.<\/p>\n<p>Jake Bauers scored Milwaukee&#8217;s lone run in the second inning.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Dodgers: Emmett Sheehan (3-1, 4.93 ERA) faces the Colorado Rockies on Monday in Los Angeles. The Rockies haven&#8217;t announced their starting pitcher.<\/p>\n<p>Brewers: Jacob Misiorowski (4-2, 1.89) matches up with St. Louis&#8217; Matthew Liberatore (2-2, 4.70) on Monday as the Brewers open a home series. <\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andy Pages hit a two-run homer immediately after Kyle Tucker delivered a tiebreaking two-run triple in the fifth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,1187,5882,5130,5159,591,6590,85],"class_list":["post-692491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-mookie-betts","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}