Promises of a Lauer-Bauer Power Hour held true in Thursday night’s contest between the Milwaukee Brewers and LA Dodgers. Eric Lauer won the pitcher’s duel, albeit with four innings of bullpen help from the bullpen. With fourteen Brewers already on the IL, he was held to 73 pitches in the spot start, his first since August 2020.
The Dodgers won the hit column with nine hits. Four of those were surrendered by Lauer, but he never allowed more than one hit per inning, which helped keep the Dodgers scoreless into the ninth. Lauer walked two (strangely, one of those walks was issued to Bauer) and struck out three (strangely, two of those strikeouts got Mookie Betts).