 won his fifth straight decision.Milwaukee has lost eight of its last nine games.Both of Kemp's shots came off left-hander Brent Suter (8-7), including a long blast to left-center to open the second. Kemp went deep to right-center in the third for a 6-2 lead, giving him 17 homers for the season.Wood allowed five hits and walked three in six innings. The left-hander settled down after yielding a two-run single to Travis Shaw in the first.Questionable defense by the Brewers contributed to both of the Dodgers' big innings.In the second, backpedaling first baseman Ryan Braun couldn't get to a high pop in short right with Keon Broxton charging in behind him, allowing Kike Hernandez to reach with nobody on. Hernandez scored three batters later on a two-out, two-run single by Taylor.Cody Bellinger led off the fifth with a triple after his hit caromed off the wall in right before bouncing past Broxton. Bellinger scored after the next batter, Max Muncy, hit a hard bouncer that Braun couldn't handle cleanly going to his right at first. Braun, who is primarily an outfielder, was charged with an error.Braun's tough day extended to the plate, where he went 0 for 4 and stranded seven runners. Braun lined out to shortstop with the bases loaded in the first; he left them loaded again in the second with a sharp groundout.The Brewers trailed 11-2 going into the seventh, so manager Craig Counsell saved his bullpen and had position players close out the game on the mound. Utility player Hernan Perez tossed two scoreless innings before catcher Erik Kratz threw a scoreless ninth.Machado, who was acquired in a trade with Baltimore over the All-Star break, went 2 of 5 and scored a run. Caleb Ferguson shut out Milwaukee over the final three innings for his second save.TRAINER'S ROOMDodgers: 3B Justin Turner went 1 for 2 with an RBI double in his first start since the break, but was removed before the bottom of the third with right groin tightness. He had been sidelined before Sunday with what the club called an upper right leg muscle injury.Brewers: Suter allowed six runs before departing after three innings with forearm tightness. ... All-Star 1B Jesus Aguilar (sore hamstrings) got a day off. ... RHP Junior Guerra (forearm) is scheduled to come off the 10-day disabled list to start Tuesday against the visiting Washington Nationals.UP NEXTDodgers: Open a three-game series at the Phillies on Monday night, with All-Star RHP Ross Stripling (8-2) making his first start since the break.Brewers: RHP Jhoulys Chacin (8-3) gets his first start of the second half to open the Nationals series.---More baseball: https://apnews.com/tag/MLBbaseball)
Brewers go for series win over Dodgers 2h ago• 2 min read MILWAUKEE -- The Milwaukee Brewers will try to notch consecutive victories for the first time in more than two weeks when they wrap up a three-game series with the Los Angeles Dodgers Sunday afternoon at Miller Park.The Brewers snapped a season-long seven-game losing skid Saturday night with a 4-2 victory over the Dodgers, moving them 2 1/2 games behind the Cubs, who took over the top spot in the NL Central during Milwaukee's slide."We needed it," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said.Counsell has had to navigate his team through a rash of injuries during the streak but his roster is slowly creeping back to full strength. Catcher Manny Pina returned for the start of the second half while Ryan Braun came off the disabled list ahead of Saturday's game and first baseman Eric Thames went through a third straight day of on-field workouts, making his return likely within the next few days."Our health is important going forward and as each day goes by, we feel like we're making progress," Counsell said.Milwaukee goes for the series victory behind left-hander Brent Suter (8-6, 4.39 ERA), who returned from the disabled list last Saturday and took a loss after allowing just a run on two hits over five innings of work against the Pirates.Suter has never faced the Dodgers, who are expected to get a roster boost of their own when Justin Turner returns to manager Dave Roberts' lineup after missing five games with a sore right hip.Turner went through a full on-field workout Saturday and reported no further issues with the hip and then entered the game as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning before striking out against left-hander Josh Hader."I'm fine swinging," Turner said. "I took ground balls and felt pretty good. I can run to a certain point and keep it in control, but I (got injured) on a check swing, and that's probably the one box that is kind of hard to check off without taking an at-bat. Just trying to continue to keep progressing and go day by day." Sunday will mark Turner's first start since July 11, though the Dodgers opted not to put him on the disabled list during that stretch."It was a little bit difficult to not have a guy you can plug in there to play defense," Roberts said. "But with the versatility we have in our position player group, we can have (Turner) off the bench and have him run for himself. Just the threat to have him on the DL, to lose him for the next six or seven days, just doesn't make sense for us." Left-hander Alex Wood (5-5, 3.92) gets the start Sunday as the Dodgers look to win a third straight series.He's allowed three runs in each of his last two outings, both of them six-inning efforts that resulted in no-decisions. Prior to that, he'd won four straight starts, posting a 2.19 ERA during that stretch with 18 strikeouts and just three walks in 24 2/3 innings of work.Wood is 2-0 with a 0.87 ERA in five career appearances (one start) against the Brewers but hasn't faced Milwaukee since May 22, 2014 when he worked a scoreless inning of relief for the Braves.
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