Box Score
In an action-packed series finale, the Brewers escaped with a 6-5 win against the Los Angeles Dodgers to record their 10th consecutive win. They swept the Dodgers in the process for the first time in franchise history.
The win pushes the Brewers into a tie with the Cubs for first place in the division.
In this game, both starting pitchers, Jose Quintana and Clayton Kershaw, had mixed outings. While they both confounded hitters at times, hitters were able to make plenty of hard contact, leading
to a messy game. The two starters gave up 15 hard-hit balls and there were three errors from the Dodgers.
Quintana was the first to crack as he gave up three runs in the bottom of the third inning. He surrendered a leadoff double to Andy Pages who would advance to third on a ground ball, a chopped grounder that Caleb Durbin fielded well, yet couldn’t stop the runner from advancing. A sacrifice fly brought him home as the Dodgers scored the first run of the game.
The next two at-bats were indicative of Quintana’s struggles in this game. He fell behind 2-0 to Mookie Betts, who singled on the next pitch. Then Shohei Ohtani jumped on another 2-0 offering, a sinker in the middle of the plate, for a two-run home run.
The Brewers didn’t wait to get back in the action, tagging Kershaw for three runs in the next frame. Andrew Vaughn worked a leadoff walk, but as Kershaw retired the next two batters, it took a rally to keep the momentum going.
Blake Perkins and Andruw Monasterio both singled, both driving in a run, to ignite the offense. Joey Ortiz came up and hit a hard liner to center field, but in one of the most important moments of the game, Pages let the ball glance off his glove. It gave the Brewers the tying run, 3-3.
Big-time answer to tie the game pic.twitter.com/ufkjcJ8WdK
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) July 20, 2025
Pages would help redeem himself in the fifth inning when he made a jumping catch off the wall, but the Brewers continued to pressure Los Angeles. William Contreras was hit by a pitch and Vaughn singled. It should have pushed Contreras to second base, but as the left fielder Esteury Ruiz fumbled the ball, Contreras advanced to third for free.
At that point, Kershaw left the game after pitching just 4 1⁄3 innings. The Brewers only struck out twice against him, despite Kershaw’s 10 swing-and-misses. The Brewers’ trademark plate approach had pushed his pitch count into the 80s and the Dodgers decided it was best to hand the game over to the bullpen.
Alex Vesia came in for relief, but still had to handle a situation with runners on the corners. He retired Isaac Collins for the second out. Then, Durbin walked to load the bases, presenting another dangerous opportunity for the Brewers to capitalize on, but Blake Perkins would end up striking out with the score still even.
The Dodgers managed a temporary lead again as they still faced off against Quintana. Ruiz, who had errored earlier, took Quintana deep to straightaway center field on a curveball that caught too much of the zone. Quintana’s approach is always going to be about nibbling around the edges of the zone, but it’s moments like that that cost him. Ruiz connected for the 413-foot shot to give the Dodgers a 4-3 lead.
The Brewers were persistent, a constant nuisance, even as the Dodgers cycled through relievers. In the top of the sixth, Joey Ortiz connected for another double as Los Angeles went to reliever Lou Trivino.
Bottom of the order just keeps putting in work pic.twitter.com/1XyixWA5b0
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) July 20, 2025
Eric Haase singled to left, pulling a pitch down the middle for an RBI base hit. That tied the game at 4-4.
Jackson Chourio stepped to the plate and ripped a 110.4 mph ball up the middle that careened off Trivino’s leg. The ball sprayed to the right side of the field on what otherwise was likely to be an inning-ending double play. But sometimes the random bounces fall in your favor, and it gave Chourio a single as Haase moved his way to third base.
Vaughn walked, signaling another pitching change as Los Angeles called on Will Klein.
Isaac Collins was the one who came through with a weak blooper into center field, sending Chourio around to score. Vaughn was easily out at third, but the run counted, and Milwaukee muscled their way to a 6-4 lead.
The Isaac Collins breakout is so much fun pic.twitter.com/K8Z9jFSzrj
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) July 20, 2025
Despite Quintana allowing four runs, he would go on to pitch six innings since he was efficient for much of the afternoon. He struck out five batters without allowing a single walk and just four hits, but in surrendering those two home runs, his outing looked mediocre.
Before Quintana left the game, in the sixth inning, he hit Freddie Freeman on the wrist. Freeman’s reaction was subdued but he immediately left the game without even taking a step toward first base.
Neither team reached scoring position in the eighth inning. For Milwaukee, DL Hall was brought out for just three batters. He retired Dalton Rushing and Betts, but after walking Ohtani, he was replaced by Nick Mears.
Mears forced a groundball up the middle with two outs and Ortiz made a play with almost no time left for a margin of error, ensuring the Brewers would enter the final frame with at least a two-run lead.
They very nearly expanded on that lead as Collins and Durbin tacked on back-to-back singles in the ninth, on consecutive pitches, but Perkins hit a fly ball for the third out.
Perhaps an insurance run would have been a more comfortable outcome, but as it was, the Brewers had to deal with a stressful finish to the game. Los Angeles managed their first hit in the ninth inning since the fifth inning as Abner Uribe entered to close out the game. He retired his first batter, but Tommy Edman squeezed a hard groundball just within the foul line past first base.
With a runner on, the Dodgers brought out Will Smith as a pinch-hitter, replacing Miguel Rojas. Uribe accomplished what he set out to do with a sinker that induced a groundball out from Smith. It was a hard-hit ball toward the gap, but Ortiz made a diving stop and recorded an out at second base to snag the lead runner. There wasn’t enough time to attempt the double play, but it was significant that there was no runner on second base as Uribe worked through the rest of the inning.
The next batter, Pages, connected on a sinker down the middle for a base hit right past the diving glove of Monasterio. At this point, there was a runner on first and second and two outs as manager Pat Murphy came out for a mound visit. There was still a two-run advantage with Uribe facing the bottom of the order, and only one out that needed to be found.
In a hard fought at-bat, Michael Conforto climbed back from a 1-2 count to walk the bases loaded as Uribe’s final two pitches fell too low below the zone to tempt a swing.
Rushing kept up the Dodgers hope for another at-bat as he singled on a slider, sending Smith home to bring the scoreline to a 6-5 Brewers lead. It meant Uribe now had to face off against the top of the order if he wanted to escape.
Betts made a good effort at it, too, with a sharply hit line drive to center field, but Perkins corralled it to finish the nerve-wracking sequence. It was Uribe’s seventh batter faced in the inning, but he managed to close it out, recording his second save of the year as the Brewers secured not just the series sweep, but a 10-game winning streak.
The Brewers have climbed their way in the standings to now boast the best record in the National League, tied with the Cubs for that top spot.
The Brewers head to Seattle for a series against the Mariners tomorrow night. That game starts at 8:40 p.m. CT on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network.
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