Bauer on Saturday against Texas allowed six runs on nine hits, with spin rates down again.
Saturday got so out of hand that newcomer Andy Burns, who got called up earlier Saturday for his first major league start — at second base — finished the game on the mound in the ninth.
On the other side, Kolby Allard confounded the Dodgers through five scoreless innings.
But as bad as Dodgers production has been against lefties this season, entering Saturday it was still good for a 100 wRC+, exactly league average but still not up to their standards.
A little different than Ke’Bryan Hayes’ non-homer home run on Monday, this time Adolis Garcia scored from second base on a Joey Gallo single to right field in the third inning.
But when Garcia got to third base, he briefly thought the ball was caught in right field, and after touching the bag retreated a few steps back toward second base.
Despite the faux pas, the Rangers still scored two runs in the inning, both unearned thanks to Mookie Betts uncharacteristically botching a fly ball in center field to open the frame.
Gallo also stole a bag in the third, giving the Rangers four steals against Bauer and Will Smith, the most off any Dodgers pitcher in a game this season.
The only two games in which the Dodgers allowed more steals as a team this year were April 24-25, when the Padres stole five and six bases against them in consecutive games.