Shaw sends Brewers to 6-5 win over Dodgers in 11 innings

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Travis Shaw homered and hit a game-winning single, and the Milwaukee Brewers scored three runs in the 11th inning to beat the scuffling Los Angeles Dodgers 6-5 on Saturday night.

Los Angeles, which has dropped three straight to Milwaukee, also lost starter Dustin May to an apparent injury after he had thrown just 27 pitches.

The game was tied at 2 after nine innings and 3-all after 10.

In the 11th, Drew Smith, who entered Saturday batting .222, hit a two-run triple off Drew Rasmussen to give the Dodgers a 5-3 lead.

But Milwaukee, despite having the lowest team batting average (.215) in the NL entering Saturday and having 16 players on the injured list, responded.

The Brewers loaded the bases with no outs after left-hander Alex Vesia (0-1), who was recalled Saturday, started the inning with two walks. He was replaced by right-hander Mitch White, who had pitched 3 2/3 innings this season. White gave up a sacrifice fly to Kolten Wong, an RBI single to Avisail Garcia and the game-winning hit to Shaw, which scored Mario Feliciano, who made his major league debut. Feliciano had walked.

Shaw also hit a solo homer earlier in the game.

Left-hander Angel Perdomo (1-0) got the win.

The teams entered the game on divergent paths. Milwaukee ended April 8-3 and Los Angeles 3-8, with the Brewers winning the first two games of their four-game series. Milwaukee pitching held the Dodgers to one run in both games.

Mookie Betts, who was 7 for 36 (.194) in his previous eight games, led off the game with a home run against Brandon Woodruff. It was his first since April 13. Betts gave Los Angeles a 2-1 lead in the third, reaching on a hit by pitch and scoring on Corey Seager’s triple.

But the offense for the defending World Series champions has fallen off. In 2020, the...

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