Dodgers’ skid reaches six games

MIAMI — The Miami Marlins pulled even with the Los Angeles Dodgers in the standings Wednesday, which shows how sour the season has gone for the defending National League champions.

Los Angeles erased a four-run deficit and still endured its sixth loss in a row when J.T. Realmuto’s tiebreaking homer in the sixth inning helped Miami win 6-5.

“It’s the same story: We just didn’t get it done,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

Miami clinched the series after another last-place team, Cincinnati, swept a four-game set at Los Angeles last week. The Dodgers and the rebuilding Marlins have identical 16-26 records.

“I think everyone would be surprised,” Marlins manager Don Mattingly said.

Justin Bour hit a two-run homer for Miami, his ninth.

Yasmani Grandal hit his seventh home run and singled in a run for the Dodgers, who fell to 4-14 in games decided by one or two runs.

The Marlins’ Elieser Hernandez allowed one run in five innings and left with a 5-1 lead.

Los Angeles quickly erased it, scoring four runs in the sixth against Miami’s bullpen. Max Muncy’s two-run double off Drew Steckenrider made it 5-all.

Steckenrider (2-1) regrouped to retire five batters. Brad Ziegler pitched around a leadoff single in the ninth for his seventh save, with Justin Turner bouncing into a gameending double play.

The Dodgers’ bullpen has struggled all season, and Pedro Baez (12) gave up the sixth-inning homer by Realmuto.

“It’s disappointing,” Baez said through a translator. “You see the team start to get a rhythm going, and then to not be able to contribute — it’s frustrating.”

Los Angeles rookie Walker Buehler gave up a season-high five runs, four earned, in five innings. That included Bour’s opposite-field homer in the fifth.

“I gave up too many runs for us to win,” Buehler said. “The ball Bour hit, I don’t know if there’s another human who can hit that ball out of the ballpark. Just a gigantic, really strong human.”