Sunday, May 3, 2026

Copyrighted by Sarah Morris, 2026

Justin Wrobleski dominated the Cardinals for six innings without a strikeout. The Dodgers’ offense woke up.

The Los Angeles Dodgers used a 4–1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals to snap their four-game losing streak on a beautiful Sunday afternoon.

Wrobleski is doing something that pitchers in the 1980s and 1990s did. In this era of baseball, everyone focuses on velocity and spin rate. Pitchers think strikeouts are sexy, but strikeouts take more pitches than inducing soft contact. In this day of pitch counts, most pitchers don’t last long.

Wrobleski looked up to Clayton Kershaw, who used soft contact to last eighteen years in the major leagues. He didn’t use his full repertoire.  He used his fastball and slider exclusively. He pitched to the corners of the strike zone. He walked only one while lowering his ERA to 1.25.

Will Klein pitched well for 1.2 innings though he allowed a run.

Blake Treinen threw one pitch to end the eighth inning.

Tanner Scott earned a save while striking out two.

Although the Dodgers didn’t have a home run for the fifth consecutive game, they got more extra-base hits in Sunday’s game than the games in the previous week.

In the second inning, Kyle Tucker doubled, and Max Muncy walked. Tucker scored on Andy Pages’ double, and Hyeseong Kim’s single brought Muncy home.

In the fifth inning, Kim scored on Freddie Freeman’s single.

In the ninth inning, Pages reached on an error, stole second, and scored on Alex Call’s single.

Tomorrow, with Yoshinobu Yamamoto on the mound, the Dodgers start a three-game series with the last-place Houston Astros.