Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Michael Chavis hits a two-run home run off of Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias, left, during the first inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Michael Chavis, right, watches the flight of his two-run home run off of Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias, left, during the first inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Michael Chavis, left, begins to circle the bases as he and Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias watch the flight of his two-run home run during the first inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Dodgers outfielder Kevin Pillar climbs the fence but can not get to a ball hit for a two-run home run by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Michael Chavis during the first inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Michael Chavis gestures as he scores after hitting a two-run home run during the first inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Ke’Bryan Hayes, left, congratulates Michael Chavis for his two-run home run during the first inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers center fielder Chris Taylor watches a ball hit by the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Tucupita Marcano clear the fence for a two-run home run during the second inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Tucupita Marcano celebrates after hitting a two-run home run during the second inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Tyler Heineman, left, congratulates Tucupita Marcano on his two-run home run during the second inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Tucupita Marcano, right, is congratulated by Tyler Heineman after hitting a two-run home run during the second inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller looks on as catcher Tyler Heineman throws out the Dodgers’ Gavin Lux at first base during the second inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias looks at his glove during the third inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers catcher Will Smith talks with starting pitcher Julio Urias on the mound during the third inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Rodolfo Castro forces out the Dodgers’ Mookie Betts at second base during the third inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Dodgers’ Trea Turner hits a home run during the third inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Dodgers’ Trea Turner hits a home run during the third inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Dodgers’ Trea Turner, second from left, hits a two-run home run as Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller, left, watches during the third inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Dodgers’ Trea Turner, right, hits a two-run home run during the third inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Dodgers’ Edwin Rios, right, congratulates Trea Turner on his home run during the third inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Dodgers’ Trea Turner is congratulated by teammates in the dugout after hitting a two-run home run during the third inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Pittsburgh Pirates third baseman Ke’Bryan Hayes fields a ball hit by the Dodgers’ Justin Turner before throwing him out at first during the third inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
The Dodgers’ Gavin Lux, left, steals second as Pittsburgh Pirates second baseman Diego Castillo takes a late throw during the fourth inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Mitch Keller throws to the plate during the first inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Pirates’ Rodolfo Castro tags out the Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman at second base as he tried to turn a single into a double during the seventh inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. Freeman was the Dodgers’ only baserunner of the last three innings in their 5-3 loss. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Dodgers’ Freddie Freeman shows his frustration after being tagged out at second base as he tried to turn a single into a double during the seventh inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. Freeman was the Dodgers’ only baserunner of the last three innings in their 5-3 loss. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Dodgers’ Gavin Lux nearly loses his helmet after hitting a foul ball during the seventh inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers catcher Will Smith looks on as the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Tyler Heineman crosses the plate on a double by Bryan Reynolds during the ninth inning on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
The Pittsburgh Pirates’ Michael Chavis, left, shakes hands with Tyler Heineman after Heineman scored a run during the ninth inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Wil Crowe throws to the plate during the ninth inning of their game against the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Pittsburgh Pirates starting pitcher Wil Crowe celebrates after the final out of their 5-3 victory over the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Pittsburgh Pirates relief pitcher Wil Crowe, left, celebrates with catcher Tyler Heineman after the final out of their 5-3 victory over the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
Pittsburgh Pirates catcher Tyler Heineman and relief pitcher Will Crowe congratulate each other after the final out of their 5-3 victory over the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
From left, the Pittsburgh Pirates’ Tucupita Marcano, Jack Suwinski and Bryan Reynolds celebrate after their 5-3 victory over the Dodgers on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts smiles as his 50th birthday is celebrated before a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts smiles as his 50th birthday is celebrated before a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers manager Dave Roberts blows a kiss to the crowd as his 50th birthday is celebrated before a game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
Dodgers starting pitcher Julio Urias looks to the sky before pitching during the first inning of their game against the Pittsburgh Pirates on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. (Photo by John McCoy/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES ― Barring a miraculous turnaround, the Pittsburgh Pirates will miss the postseason in 2022. Adding a third wild-card berth in each league can only do so much for a rebuilding club that ended the month of May with a 21-27 record.
As far as the Dodgers are concerned, Pittsburgh is the best team in the National League. They have lost four of five games to the Pirates this year, including a 5-3 defeat on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.
Mercifully for the Dodgers, the season series will conclude on Wednesday evening. Were it not for their 11-1 win in Pittsburgh on May 10, the Dodgers would be looking to steal pity from the Steel City.
“Obviously they’re scoring more runs than us but, yeah, just one of those funky things,” Dodgers third baseman Justin Turner said. “We’ll regroup and try to salvage one tomorrow.”
At 33-16, the Dodgers still own the National League’s best record. That merely added to the bewilderment of their back-to-back losses to begin a seven-game homestand.
Dodgers starter Julio Urías (3-5) made few mistakes outside of the home runs he allowed to Tucupita Marcano and Michael Chavis. He threw 70 of his 91 pitches for strikes. He walked one batter and struck out eight in six innings. He allowed eight hits but, other than the homers, none were the result of hard contact.
The offense was more culpable.
With Cody Bellinger sidelined for a second straight night with a strained left adductor muscle, the Dodgers mustered four hits against Mitch Keller (2-5) and four relievers. Five of their 11 strikeouts were called by home plate umpire Nate Tomlinson. They left eight runners on base and went 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position.
“We had seven walks and just couldn’t finish an inning,” Manager Dave Roberts said.
Urías ranked third among qualified National League starters last season in run support – more than six per game – and he finished with the league’s only 20-win season. This year the Dodgers are scoring about three runs per game for Urías, and he is their only starter with a losing record.
Just as they did a day earlier, the Pirates mounted an early 4-0 lead on the strength of two home runs.
Urías walked Ke’Bryan Hayes to begin the game, then served up a two-run homer to Chavis. In the second inning, Urías allowed a soft single to Tyler Heineman and another home run to sudden slugger Marcano on back-to-back pitches.
Marcano, a 22-year-old rookie, had never homered in a major league game before this week. He has two in two games against the Dodgers.
“(Monday) he was ahead in the count and attacked the fastball,” Urías said through an interpreter. “(Tuesday), first-pitch fastball, and he hit it out of the park. Afterward, we made the adjustment to go softer, throw more breaking balls.”
Trea Turner’s home run, his fifth of the season, came two batters after Mitch Keller walked Mookie Betts to begin the third inning. That halved the Dodgers’ deficit to 4-2.
The Dodgers cut the lead to 4-3 thanks to some astute baserunning by Justin Turner. Tyler Beede relieved Keller in the sixth inning and walked Turner, then allowed a line-drive single to Chris Taylor. Turner turned on the jets and took third base uncontested.
With Kevin Pillar at the plate, Beede threw a low changeup that got past Heineman, the catcher. Pillar swung and missed at strike three, but Turner raced home from third base with the Dodgers’ third run.
The Dodgers put only one runner on base over the final three innings. Freddie Freeman led off the seventh with a hard-hit liner to the right-center field gap, but he was thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double. Chris Stratton struck out the side in the eighth. Will Crowe retired the side in order in the ninth.
“Outside of the one game we won, they’ve really done a great job of preventing runs against us,” Roberts said. “We just haven’t found a way to score consistently. We have to give them credit. They’re doing something right. We have (Jose) Quintana (Wednesday), who’s given us fits. We have to find a way to figure him out.”
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