Jacob Misiorowski keeps Dodgers’ bats in check as Brewers pick up 4-1 win

By: Dan Greenspan, The Associated Press Posted: 8:59 PM CDT Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jacob Misiorowski gave up five hits and one run in six innings, Joey Ortiz and William Contreras hit two-run homers, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 4-1 on Saturday night in a battle of division leaders.

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Misiorowski (12-5) struck out five and gave up one walk. The right-hander topped 102 mph on each of his first six pitches to leadoff batter Shohei Ohtani to get the two-way star to pop out. He also fanned Ohtani and Freddie Freeman to get out of a bases-loaded jam in the fifth inning.

Justin Wrobleski (11-5) gave up four runs on four hits and one walk in six innings for the Dodgers.

Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Jacob Misiorowski throws to the plate during the first inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Saturday, Aug. 15, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

Ortiz put the Brewers ahead with a 373-foot homer to left in the second to capitalize after Contreras extended the inning with a two-out single. It was the third straight game with an RBI for Ortiz, who is 5 for 13 during a four-game hitting streak.

Ohtani cut the Dodgers’ deficit to 2-1 in the third with a two-out triple over the head of first baseman Gary Sánchez into the right field corner that drove in Alex Call.

Contreras made it 4-1 in the fourth by jumping on a cutter for his 12th shot of the season. He had been hitless in his first 15 at-bats during the opening five games of the Southern California road trip prior to the 2 for 4 outing.

Aaron Ashby got his first save of the season by striking out Call after allowing two runners.

Sánchez was replaced by a pinch runner after being hit by a pitch in the sixth inning.

Up Next

The Brewers start RHP Logan Henderson (6-2, 2.88 ERA) against Dodgers LHP Tarik Skubal (7-6, 2.93) to wrap up the four-game series on Sunday. The Brewers have won two of the first three.

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