Richard Mackson-USA TODAY Sports LOS ANGELES - The glass-half-full view of the Milwaukee Brewers' West Coast road trip would be that they finished with a 5-3 record and earned a split with the Los Angeles Dodgers. Well, that's not so pretty. After losing a tough, 10-inning game the night before on a walk-off home run, the Brewers had their doors absolutely blown off by the Dodgers on Thursday in the finale of the teams' four-game series. Jhoulys Chacín surrendered three homers, including a game-turning grand slam by Cody Bellinger in a blowup third inning, and then it got much, much worse. The Dodgers went deep four more times after that leaving the Brewers to stew on an embarrassing 21-5 loss on their cross-country, overnight flight home. BOX SCORE: Dodgers 21, Brewers 5 RELATED: It's business as usual for Mark Attanasio and David Stearns MLB: Live scoreboard, box scores, standings, statistics The 21 runs were most ever allowed by the Brewers — with 20 the previous high-water mark — and the 16-run losing margin was second-worst in franchise history. The 21 runs scored by Los Angeles were also a record for any team at Dodger Stadium, which opened in 1962. Things got so bad that utility man Hernán Pérez was summoned to pitch in the seventh and catcher Erik Kratz had to toe the slab in the eighth after Pérez threw 37 pitches. For the fourth time in as many games in the series, the Brewers took the lead. Christian Yelich, whose 15-game hitting streak was snapped a night earlier, doubled to left-center off Clayton Kershaw two batters in and eventually came around to score on a pair of wild pitches. But the Dodgers needed only two pitches to tie it up against Chacín, as Joc Pederson took him deep to right to make it 1-1. Two innings later, the game blew up on Chacín and the Brewers. After he got Kershaw to ground out to new acquisition Jonathan Schoop at second base, Schoop booted a routine grounder off the bat of Pederson. He went from first to third on Manny Machado's single to center, then scampered home when Lorenzo Cain's throw back to the infield got away from Orlando Arcia. It was a striking letdown by a Brewers team that had played airtight defense to that point in the series. And also a costly one. Chacín followed up by plunking Justin Turner and walking Yasmani Grandal to load the bases, then Bellinger pulled a long fly ball down the right-field line that hit the foul pole for a grand slam to break the game wide open at 6-1. That opened stuff up. Yelich homered off Kershaw in the fifth, then it was more ugliness in the bottom half. Chacín 10-4 walked two more to end his night, then Wednesday's goat, Matt Albers, closed the book on the starter's five-hit, nine-run eight earned , four-walk outing by surrendering a three-run homer to Brian Dozier that made it 10-2. That brought on Pérez, who surrendered another Puig homer en route to allowing a total of six hits and five runs before he was able to close out the seventh. Kratz, mercifully, tossed a 1-2-3 eighth to help speed the game to its ugly conclusion. How will the Brewers be able to wash away such a lopsided, ugly loss? Not only did his error jump-start the Dodgers' game-turning rally, but he's also 0 for 8 with five strikeouts after two starts in the cleanup spot. He was switched out of the game Thursday after his third strikeout in the fifth inning. GOODBYE, GUERRA: With the Dodgers doing the Brewers no favors Thursday by playing a night game on getaway day, Junior Guerra was allowed to fly home ahead of the team so as to get him a full night's rest in advance of his start Friday against the Colorado Rockies at Miller Park. The Brewers' charter is expected to land in Milwaukee sometime between 5-5:30 a. It doesn't really happen on our end that much. Our travel is generally very good, so nights like this are rare. Things must be progressing as expected, because he offered a funny anecdote in response. LOVE FOR THE GLOVE: Mike Moustakas forged a reputation as one of the best-hitting third basemen in the game prior to coming to the Brewers. But it's actually been his defense that's made the biggest impact with his new team, with the full-length, diving stab of Chris Taylor's grounder down the line and subsequent throw over to first for the out Wednesday serving as the highlight to date. I feel comfortable over there. Counsell said it's likely Davies will make two more starts before returning to the majors. He'll take the next step, so that's all good. He'll stay with Colorado Springs at this point. Milwaukee RHP Junior Guerra 6-7, 3. Colorado RHP German Márquez 9-8, 4.
