Dodgers 3, Braves 1
ATLANTA -- The Los Angeles Dodgers were in desperate need by quality start from the backend of their rotation and Mike Bolsinger supplied it to them Wednesday.
Bolsinger allowed just three hits and an unearned run over seven innings and the Dodgers salvaged the final game of the series with a 3-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves at a sweltering Turner Field.
Bolsinger (5-3) didn't allow a hit after the third inning and retired 14 batters in a row before a walk broke the streak with two outs in the seventh inning.
The Dodgers, who lead the National League West with a 54-42 record, had fallen to 20-25 on the road with losses in the first two games of the series as neither starter got to the fifth inning.
The right-handed Bolsinger walked just one and threw 66 of his 98 pitches for strikes while ending a seven-start winless streak in which he had made it through six innings just once.
Bolsinger's last win had been on June 8 against Arizona, when he allowed three hits and held his former team scoreless.
Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen walked the leadoff batter in the ninth inning, but closed out his 17th save in 18 chances with a pair of strikeouts.
Braves starter Julio Teheran (6-5) was in control like Bolsinger except for the fifth inning, when the Dodgers scored all their runs.
The right-handed Teheran tied his career best with 11 strikeouts. He allowed six hits and walked three in seven innings.
It was the first loss at home for Teheran this season after five victories and dropped him to 0-4 for his career against the Dodgers.
Teheran, who allowed just one hit through four innings, fanned the first four Dodgers batters and had seven strikeouts through the third inning.
The Dodgers, though, scored three times in the fifth to turn a deficit into a lead. Catcher Yasmani Grandal doubled to lead off the inning and scored on a one-out single by third baseman Alberto Callaspo.
Shortstop Jimmy Rollins then put Los Angeles ahead with the second double of the inning and center fielder Joc Peterson delivered a two-out single to make it a three-run inning.
The Braves (45-50) had taken the lead with an unearned run in the third as Teheran helped himself by putting the ball in play.
Rollins dropped his soft liner following a leadoff single by shortstop Andrelton Simmons and, after a sacrifice bunt, center fielder Cameron Maybin produced an RBI groundout.
NOTES: LHP Brett Anderson, who had to come out of Tuesday's game in the third inning with a sore left Achilles, had an MRI on Wednesday and the Dodgers were hopeful that the starter could avoid a trip to the disabled list. ... The Dodgers changed bullpen pieces, optioning LHP Adam Liberatore to Oklahoma City and recalling LHP Ian Thomas from the Triple-A team. ... Liberatore was 2-2 with a 4.15 ERA in 35 games, striking out 26 and walking nine in 26 innings. ... Thomas made two appearances for the Dodgers earlier after being part of the late-May trade that sent 3B Juan Uribe to the Braves. ... The Dodgers continue their 10-game road trip with a four-game set in New York against the Mets beginning Thursday. ... LHP Clayton Kershaw (7-6, 2.68 ERA) will start the opener for the Dodgers against RHP Bartolo Colon (9-8, 4.86 ERA) of the Mets. ... The Braves are off Thursday before beginning a 10-game road trip at St. Louis on Friday.