Lester and Kershaw rocked in Dodgers’ 9-4 sweep of Cubs

Adam Duvall hit a pair of two-run homers, Patrick Kivlehan had two solo shots, and Cincinnati won at Philadelphia to take the three-game series. The Dodgers have scored 231 runs on the season, and have a team batting average of.258. He’s hitting.261 with six home runs and 18 RBIs with a.458 slugging, third best on the team.

Starting the game on Sunday for the Cubs was left-handed pitcher Jon Lester.

The Dodgers’ Clayton Kershaw allowed four runs and a career-high-tying 11 hits in 41/3 innings.

The Dodgers are -136 over the Chicago Cubs on Friday night.

Dodgers: LF Franklin Gutierrez left in the first inning with a gastrointestinal illness. Only three Dodgers have hit more of them: Cody Bellinger (nine), Yasiel Puig (eight) and Corey Seager (seven).

Diamondbacks 4, Brewers 2, 10 innings: Jake Lamb homered in the fourth inning and hit an RBI double in Arizona’s two-run 10th, and the Diamondbacks extended their winning streak to five games. “Josh came into a high-stress situation and got the big outs, and everyone down the line did their job”. But the baseball victories of May are inherently small ones, and the Dodgers prevailed despite fighting both themselves and the Cubs on Sunday. Zobrist would be the first runner to stand on third base after an Anthony Rizzo ground out. He’s also allowing himself to step back from his usual desire to pitch to exhaustion, accepting Roberts’ desire to keep him fresh, use the deep Dodgers’ bullpen and maintain his health a season after missing time with a back injury.

Rangers 3, Blue Jays 1: Joey Gallo hit his 15th home run and Texas snapped its longest losing streak of the season at five.

“Nobody gave up a run this series but me”, said a visibly frustrated Kershaw after the game. “Sometimes games are going to happen that way”. “It was just one of those days”.

The rotation has given up 39 home runs in 49 games, so their pitches have been finding bad parts of the bat for a while now.

A Padres 5, Nationals 3: Ryan Schimpf hit a two-run homer as San Diego avoided a sweep at Washington.

With the ball flying early and often, a highly anticipated pitchers’ duel never materialized. We’re off to an average start, but we’re not bad.

Lester’s day was worse.

Austin Barnes added an insurance run with a solo shot in the bottom of the fifth inning.

Brought up from Triple-A Pawtucket, Johnson (2-0) gave up five singles, struck out eight and walked none. The Dodgers moved ahead by one run.

“That’s not the problem as much as we have to get back to the fundamentals and the execution of the little details of the game, and everything else kind of takes care of itself”. Hernandez, with two on in the third, drove a 3-0 fastball over the left-field wall for a 6-1 lead. Reliever LHP Mike Montgomery is expected to make a start for the Cubs soon.

Credit to the Dodgers for a well-pitched, well-hit series. “I look forward to this week and just getting ready for the next game”. Gutierrez, 34, has a troubling history of gastrointestinal issues.

“They did a good job”, said Kershaw of Contreras and all the Cubs hitters against him.

Taylor, meanwhile, went from super sub to just super.

Pedro Baez would throw another scoreless inning, and Chris Hatcher would throw two scoreless innings of his own.

It was his sixth home run of the season since he debuted on April 19. At just 30 years old, this couldn’t be the beginning of his end. “Hitters are normally swinging at balls and taking strikes, and they’re normally fouling off their pitch when they’re not going well”. When Bryant took a few steps in from third base, Bellinger made a decision to swing away. He pitched three scoreless innings and struck out six. Sunday, that meant bailing out their best pitcher. “That’s the game of baseball”.