LOS ANGELES -- Dallas Keuchel didn’t give in at Dodger Stadium on Sunday afternoon.

Neither did the Brewers.

Dropping two of three games to the team they’re chasing in the overall National League standings was preferable to getting swept, and the Brewers avoided the latter with home runs from Christian Yelich, Eric Haase and Blake Perkins in a 9-2 win over the Dodgers after Keuchel delivered the sort of stubborn start Major League Baseball hadn’t seen in more than a decade.

The Dodgers put runners on base against Keuchel in each of the five innings he appeared, including runners in scoring position in the second, third and fourth. But the veteran lefty, making his third Brewers start and his first start against the Dodgers since the 2017 World Series, emerged with this unique pitching line: 4 1/3 innings, three hits, no runs, five walks, no strikeouts.

According to Baseball-Reference.com, the last pitcher to walk at least five batters and strike out none but still emerge with a scoreless outing was the Royals' Vin Mazzaro in June 2011. The last starting pitcher to do that in five or fewer innings, as Keuchel did Sunday while pecking around the strike zone, was the Astros' Mike Scott in May 1983.

The Brewers made his effort pay off. Yelich and backup catcher Haase hit two-run home runs off Dodgers starter Justin Wrobleski in the left-handed prospect’s Major League debut, with Perkins adding a solo shot. Yelich and Perkins each finished with three hits and three RBIs, while Yelich led the way with three runs scored to help the Brewers avoid what would have been their first four-game losing streak all season.

The only teams in MLB yet to lose four in a row are all division leaders: The Phillies, Guardians and Brewers.