Cubs Tee Off On Justin Wrobleski As Dodgers' Losing Skid Stretches To Four Games

CHICAGO — The Dodgers came distant from nan waste and acquisition deadline pinch major wins — a two-time Cy Young Award victor successful Tarik Skubal, basal catching extent pinch Ben Rortvedt and Hunter Feduccia, and a 2025 All-Star successful pitcher Kris Bubic.

All of that momentum, and nan staggering magnitude of talent connected nan roster, person overshadowed nan Dodgers’ caller mediocre play. A cleanable slate against nan Chicago Cubs astatine Wrigley Field was a chance to group a caller reside aft being swept by nan Boston Red Sox astatine home. Instead, they mislaid 10-5 to unfastened nan three-game series.

“This is simply a playoff-contending team,” head Dave Roberts said of nan Cubs earlier nan game. “We’ve sewage to play well. Like I said [Sunday], we sewage outplayed. Outcompeted against. So we request to play better. We’re going to play amended this series. I don’t cognize nan results, but we will play pinch much urgency.”

The Dodgers (69-44) fundamentally played retired that prophecy to statesman nan game. Against left-hander Matthew Boyd, Shohei Ohtani and Andy Pages deed back-to-back singles, and Tommy Edman roped a three-run homer to left.

Then Boyd settled in. He sewage retired of nan inning pinch 3 consecutive flyouts — Cubs fans enthusiastically booing Kyle Tucker, who was ne'er expected to re-sign pinch nan squad erstwhile he deed free agency aft 1 play successful Chicago, erstwhile he flied retired to correct field.

Dodgers left-handed All-Star Justin Wrobleski struggled. For nan 2nd commencement successful a row, he surrendered 4 location runs.

The first 3 came pinch men connected base, expediting nan damage. And they came from each complete nan Cubs’ lineup. In nan first inning, No. 2 hitter Seiya Suzuki lined a fastball into nan stands for 2 runs. The adjacent inning, it was No. 9 hitter Kevin Alcántara who put nan Cubs (64-49) up pinch a two-run blast. In nan third, cleanup hitter Carson Kelly jumped connected a slider for a two-run shot.

Dodgers prima Shohei Ohtani, right, is tagged retired by Chicago Cubs first baseman Michael Busch, left, connected a pickoff astatine first guidelines successful nan 2nd inning Monday.

(David Banks / Associated Press)

Wrobleski yet threw a hitless fourth, moving astir a leadoff locomotion to concisely stymie nan Cubs’ violative push. Then successful nan fifth, he threw a sinker down nan mediate to left-handed hitter Michael Busch, who drove it retired for a solo homer.

Busch, a erstwhile Dodger, coincidentally is portion of nan Skubal waste and acquisition tree. The Cubs acquired him and reliever Yency Almonte for pitching imaginable Jackson Ferris and outfield imaginable Zyhir Hope. Hope was portion of nan waste and acquisition package for Skubal.

Roberts pulled Wrobleski aft Busch’s location run. The 7 earned runs he gave up tied a play high. But this time, he only sounded 4⅓ innings, compared to nan 8⅔ innings he threw against nan Atlanta Braves connected May 10.

The Dodgers countered pinch a one-run rally successful nan fourth, and Teoscar Hernández deed a solo location tally onto Waveland Avenue successful nan sixth inning.

The Cubs, however, squashed thoughts of a imaginable comeback pinch a three-run rally successful nan sixth against Edgardo Henriquez and Tanner Scott.