A 29-year-old ace for the Milwaukee Brewers entered the franchise's record books with a win over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Saturday.

The Los Angeles Dodgers won't have Shohei Ohtani leading off on Sunday's series finale against the Milwaukee Brewers. In an effort to snag a win before the Brew Crew leaves town, Mookie Betts will be leading things off for LA,

William Contreras, Andrew Vaughn and Joey Ortiz drove in two runs each as the Brewers beat the Dodgers for the fifth straight time this season.

Quinn Priester and Caleb Durbin outshined the highest-payroll-in-baseball Dodgers to lead the Brewers to their latest win.

Freddy Peralta won his seventh straight start and Isaac Collins and Joey Ortiz homered to help Milwaukee extend its win streak to a season-best nine games.

The Brewers have been playing great baseball, but expecting them to sweep the Dodgers twice in one month is too much (L.A. is 33-19 at home). Will Smith has destroyed left-handed pitching (179 wRC+), and Shohei Ohtani has been adept at punishing pitchers of either hand, so both are likely to play a part if the Dodgers score runs in bunches.

Is it defensible to refer to the defending National League Central champs as "upstarts?" It is, and such is the state of the expectations -- and the baseball -- in Milwaukee these days. The Brewers on Saturday night in L.

While typical Brewers front office caveats apply — they’re never going to say no to conversations on any player — general manager Matt Arnold indicated July 18 ahead of his team’s game against the Los Angeles Dodgers that he has every expectation that Peralta is still taking the ball in a Brewers uniform after the deadline.

The Dodgers' offense woke up on Saturday after getting blanked in the series opener but LA still lost to the red-hot Brewers.