MILWAUKEE _ Chase Anderson did not want to pick up where he left off 10 days earlier.
Unfortunately for Anderson and the Milwaukee Brewers, that's exactly what happened Tuesday night at Miller Park, where the Los Angeles Dodgers hung on for a 6-5 victory in the opener of a three-game series.
To give Anderson extra rest, his previous start was skipped, allowing nine days between outings. He previously pitched June 18 in Los Angeles, surrendering six hits and seven runs in 21/3 innings in a 10-6 loss to the Dodgers.
This time, the Dodgers got to Anderson for eight hits and six runs (five earned) in four-plus innings. Including a June 13 outing in San Francisco, Anderson is 0-2 with a 12.71 earned run average in his last three starts, with 19 hits and seven walks in 111/3 innings.
That skid was preceded by an excellent five-start stretch in which Anderson went 3-1 with a 2.03 ERA.
On the other side, Dodgers left-hander Julio Urias, a 19-year-old rookie, finally recorded his first major league victory in seven chances. Urias entered the game with a 0-2 record and 4.33 ERA despite blanking the Brewers for five innings at Dodger Stadium on June 17.
Brewers leadoff hitter Jonathan Villar opened the bottom of the first with a walk and was picked off by Urias, then not picked off, then picked off. First base umpire Toby Basner called Villar out the first time, but the Brewers challenged and the call was overturned on video replay.
Without throwing a pitch to the plate, Urias picked off Villar on a play that was obvious enough that the Brewers did not challenge it.
After a 1-2-3 first inning, Anderson found immediate trouble in the second when singles by Adrian Gonzalez and Trayce Thompson put runners on the corners with no outs. Thompson then stole second, and when the runner and Jonathan Lucroy's throw converged at the same moment, the ball ricocheted away from Villar, whose wrist was bent back, allowing Gonzalez to score and Thompson to move to third.
Yasmani Grandal's grounder to short scored Thompson to give the Dodgers an early 2-0 lead.
A pair of walks by Urias in the third inning set the stage for the Brewers to tie the score. Keon Broxton and Aaron Hill were aboard via those walks with two down when Ryan Braun laced a first-pitch changeup into the gap in left-center for a double that tied it, 2-2.
It did not stay tied long. The Dodgers got to Anderson for three more runs in the fourth, beginning with a triple by Corey Seager and double by Gonzalez, both into the right-field corner.
After Thompson walked, Grandal grounded into a double play, giving Anderson a chance to escape with one run of damage. But Joc Pederson singled to center to knock in a run and Chris Taylor kept the inning alive with another hit up the middle.
Urias followed suit with yet another single to center on a 0-2 changeup from Anderson. The rookie's first major league hit put the Dodgers on top, 5-2.
When Howie Kendrick opened the fifth with a double and Seager followed with a walk, Anderson was done. Manager Craig Counsell summoned Carlos Torres, who allowed one of the runs to score to make it 6-2.
Things got interesting when the Brewers scored three times in the eighth to make it a one-run game and came close to tying it. Lucroy doubled in two runs, then scored all the way from second on a sacrifice fly by Chris Carter _ a drive to left-center that Pederson caught before slamming into the wall and going down hard.
Pederson was injured on the play and had to leave the game, and Joe Blanton relieved Pedro Baez for the Dodgers. Blanton walked Hernan Perez and issued another to pinch-hitter Scooter Gennett. Perez broke for third on a 2-1 pitch to Ramon Flores that got away from Grandal and Perez tried to score on the play, but the catcher retrieved the ball and threw back to Blanton, who made the tag to prevent the tying run from scoring.
Kenley Jansen pitched a 1-2-3 ninth for the Dodgers to record his 23rd save.
