Dodgers pitchers retired 19 consecutive Braves at one point in a 1-1 game. But Orlando Arcia’s three-run home run off Alex Vesia decided things in the 10th.
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The three-game losing streak is the Dodgers’ first since the San Francisco Giants swept them in a three-game series June 16-18.Ronald Acuna Jr. destroyed a 3-and-0 fastball from Dodgers rookie right-hander Emmet Sheehan in the third inning. The ball left his bat at 121.2 mph — the sixth-hardest hit ball and third-hardest hit home run since Statcast began tracking such things in 2015. It re-entered earth’s atmosphere 454 feet later on the other side of the center field wall.
The Dodgers stressed Braves starter Bryce Elder a lot more. They loaded the bases with no outs in the third and again with two outs in the fourth – but nearly got nothing out of it. They put two runners on with two outs in the eighth but James Outman struck out, leaving the Dodgers hitless in seven at-bats with runners in scoring position in the game at that point.
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