It’s there is you look hard enough – the Good amongst the Bad and the Ugly in Friday night’s painful 6-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers. It was a Dodgers ‘go from ahead’ loss to give the Brewers a ‘come from behind’ win.

The Dodgers nursed a precarious 2-0 lead into the top of the eighth inning in front of 47,272 at Dodger Stadium on ‘Star Wars Night’ when their hyperspace drive sudden failed; when their lightsabers suddenly went dark; when Jamey Wright gave up four consecutive hits and walked a batter – all of whom scored. It was Bad and it was Ugly.

“I’m the reason we lost,” Wright told reporters after the game in a subdued Dodgers clubhouse. “It doesn’t feel good but it’s one game and it’s not our first loss, and it probably won’t be our last. I’m going to forget about it and have a short memory.”

The Dark Side proved to be too much for the Dodgers to overcome in Friday night’s 6-3 loss to the Brewers. (Photo credit – Ron Cervenka)

Okay, so how about the Good?

Again, it’s there if you look hard enough for it.

Dee Gordon went 2 for 4, stole two bases (number 55 and 56 on the season), scored twice on two Yasiel Puig RBI singles. Puig went 3 for 4 with a double and said two RBIs. He then took third on a wild pitch. Matt Kemp then hit a sacrifice fly scoring Puig in the top of the eighth inning. Unfortunately, that’s when the Force was no longer with the Dodgers.

Dee Gordon stole his 55th and 56th bases on Friday night. He scored both times on two RBI singles by Yasiel Puig. (Photo credit – Ron Cervenka)

So where’s the silver lining?

Well, I guess you could say it was the two scoreless innings pitched by hard-throwing third-baseman-turned-pitcher Pedro Baez, who did not allow a hit and walked one batter. Baez consistently hit 97 MPH on the Dodger Stadium radar gun with his four-seam fastball and, aside from a four-pitch walk to Brewers shortstop Jean Segura, he was right around the strike zone with almost every pitch. Segura was promptly erased on what would have been a routine 4-6-3 double play had Dodger shortstop Miguel Rojas’s relay throw to first not hit Segura’s outstretched right hand. Second base umpire Mike Estabrook correctly ruled the play interference and both Segura and Brewers centerfielder Carlos Gomez were ruled out.

Although Pedro Baez has appeared in three games this season, his appearance on Friday night was his first at Dodger Stadium – and he did exceptionally well. (Photo credit – Ron Cervenka)

Baez had been recalled from Triple-A Albuquerque earlier in the day by the Dodgers when starting pitcher Hyun-jin Ryu was placed on the 15-day disabled list for a strained glute muscle suffered in Wednesday’s tough 3-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field. Although Ryu’s injury comes at a bad time for the Dodgers (as if there is ever a good time), Dodgers manager Don Mattingly is confident that his hard-throwing South Korean left-hander will be back in the starting rotation at or near when Ryu is scheduled to come off the DL.

“This is a muscle strain,” said Mattingly. “It’s going to heal and he’s going to be back.”

As for Baez’s performance on Friday night, Mattingly had high praise for the 26-year-old Bani, Dominican Republic native.

“I thought Pedro was good,” said the Dodgers skipper. “To kind of see him come up today and give us two innings there when [we’re] really in a pretty good bind I though it was important. It helps his confidence, it helps us moving forward and seeing where we go with that.”

This is Baez’s fourth call-up to the big league team this season, and although he struggled a bit during his first three stints (two runs on three hits in four innings pitched for a 4.50 ERA), he looked extremely sharp on Friday night and pounded the strike zone well.

In spite of the loss in the first game of a three game set against the Brewers, Mattingly was able to give J.P. Howell, Brian Wilson and Kenley Jansen the night off after using them heavily during the recent road trip. With the rest, all three should be available for Saturday night’s game – if they are even needed, that is. After all, there is some guy named Clayton Kershaw starting for the Dodgers.

…and the Force is strong with this one.