MILWAUKEE -- Travis Shaw's temper snapped in the fourth inning. Plate umpire Chris Segal called strike three on a full-count fastball at the bottom of the zone from Braves right-hander Ian Anderson, and Shaw’s shoulders slumped. A lot of Brewers hitters have worn that look lately.

“That’s a ball all night,” is the censored version of what Shaw said to the umpire, the first ejection for a Brewers player this season. A team already struggling to score played the rest of Saturday’s 5-1 loss to Atlanta without its RBI leader.

The Brewers lost for the 10th time in their last 13 games, and while starter Brett Anderson didn’t put them in a good place while falling behind early on Saturday, the problem is offense. Milwaukee is averaging 2.6 runs per game and hitting .202 overall and .143 with runners in scoring position during the 13-game skid. That explains how the Brewers fell from 17-10 on May 1 -- the best record in the National League -- to 20-20 as of Saturday night.

“It’s what we’re going through a little bit right now. We’re in a team-wide funk offensively,” manager Craig Counsell said. “It was the road trip and the homestand. Runs have been sparse because it’s everyone, really.

“Lo [Lorenzo Cain] is swinging it all right with some hard contact. Avi [Avisaíl García] has swung it OK. We don’t have anybody ‘on it’ or kind of driving the bus, so to speak. So, we’re struggling to score runs.”

Despite some inspired play from Shaw’s replacement, Pablo Reyes, a home run robbery by Jackie Bradley Jr. and the vocal backing of 16,344 fans as capacity at American Family Field doubled to 50 percent, the Brewers followed a familiar script: They fell behind early and couldn’t hit their way out of it. The Braves’ Anderson didn’t allow a hit until Daniel Vogelbach dumped a single into center field leading off the seventh inning and sparked the Brewers’ only threat, but it fizzled after one run when pinch-hitting Cain saw Braves center fielder Guillermo Heredia run down his fly ball to the right-center field gap to end the threat.

Cain threw up his arms, another sign of frustration from a Brewers hitter.

“It’s weird. The other team, whenever they seem to barrel the ball up, it goes over the fence, and ours seem to die at the warning track,” Brett Anderson said. “I don’t know if we have some bad wood or what.

“I thought Lo hit his pretty well. Obviously, the guy made a tremendous play, running that ball down in the gap. That’s all you can ask for is to barrel it up and hope good things will happen shortly.”

Good things have not been happening for the Brewers lately. They have been held to one, zero, three and one runs in the four losses through the first five games of this homestand.

There was a critical at-bat in the middle of the Brewers’ seventh-inning threat. After Vogelbach got the Brewers going and Reyes chased Ian Anderson from the game with a double off the left field wall that missed being a home run by mere inches, Braves left-hander A.J. Minter entered to face Tyrone Taylor, a bright spot for the Brewers this season. Taylor needed to put a ball in play in that spot but he struck out instead.

It offered the Braves a path to escape. Bradley walked to load the bases for Luis Urías’ sacrifice fly, and then Cain hit his inning-ending lineout.

“You get down to that point, when you get a rally going, you have to have a bunch of good at-bats in a row," Counsell said. “We had some good at-bats but Tyrone's out was a big out. They got a strikeout there. That was a big spot. And when you're down that many, you have to be perfect at that point.”

The Brewers played most of the night in a 4-0 deficit after the Braves put two runs on the board against Brett Anderson in each of the first two innings, including a pair in the second on Freddy Freeman’s 10th home run of the year.

“Baseball is a humbling game,” Brett Anderson said. “Physically, the first couple of innings is the best I’ve felt in a long time. It didn’t really transfer to stuff or success but I felt really good.”

He tipped his cap to the opposing starter.

No relation.

“He was definitely the better Anderson tonight, that’s for sure."