Mookie Betts had a two-run homer and two-run double, and Max Muncy also went deep with a man on for the visiting Los Angeles Dodgers, who took three of four from the Chicago Cubs with Sunday’s 7-3 victory.

Los Angeles trailed 3-2 with a man on in the sixth against Chicago ace Marcus Stroman (2-2) when Muncy clubbed his 11th homer and fourth in the series. J.D. Martinez followed with a solo shot that chased Stroman, who recorded his 1,000th career strikeout, but allowed season highs of five runs and six hits.

Meanwhile, Clayton Kershaw (4-1) followed up earning his 200th career victory by giving up three runs in six innings, but the only one earned came on Yan Gomes’ solo homer in the fifth. The 35-year-old left-hander only yielded three hits, a walk and struck out six for the Dodgers, who won back-to-back contests for the first time since a three-game winning streak from April 3-6.

Cody Bellinger had two hits with an RBI, while Seiya Suzuki also added a run-scoring hit for the Cubs, who dropped a series for the first time since losing two of three versus Milwaukee to open the season. Chicago, which took two of three at Dodger Stadium last weekend, won four straight and 10 of 13 entering this set, but has lost in a row for the first time since dropping the first three games of April.

Chicago got to Kershaw in the first. Nico Hoerner opened by reaching on a two-base error via third baseman Muncy. Bellinger drove him in with a single, and went to second on a poor throw home from L.A. center fielder James Outman. Bellinger then scored on Suzuki’s single for a 2-0 lead.

Los Angeles tied the game in the third. Following Austin Barnes’ single, Betts went deep into the left-field bleachers for the first homer allowed by Stroman in 2023.

Betts added some insurance in the ninth when he brought home two on a double down the left-field line. The Cubs loaded the bags in the ninth, but Brusdar Graterol (first save) got Nick Madrigal to ground into a game-ending double play.

–Field Level Media