Playing their best baseball of the season, the Los Angeles Dodgers went into Monday’s series opener against the Philadelphia Phillies having won eight of their last 10 games.
But for the first five innings against Philadelphia, they looked like the team that struggled for the first month and a half of the season. Brock Stewart gave up five hits and four runs in the first two innings of the game, and the offense could not muster a hit off Phillies starter Vincent Velasquez.
Cody Bellinger’s one-out walk in the fifth inning represented the Dodgers’ first baserunner since Max Muncy’s walk in the first inning, although he was quickly erased on a double play ball.