LOS ANGELES ― Barring a miraculous turnaround, the Pittsburgh Pirates will miss the postseason in 2022. Adding a third wild-card berth in each league can only do so much for a rebuilding club that ended the month of May with a 21-27 record.

As far as the Dodgers are concerned, Pittsburgh is the best team in the National League. They have lost four of five games to the Pirates this year, including a 5-3 defeat on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium.

Mercifully for the Dodgers, the season series will conclude Wednesday afternoon. Were it not for their 11-1 win in Pittsburgh on May 10, the Dodgers would be looking to steal pity from the Steel City.

Just as they did a day earlier, the Pirates mounted an early 4-0 lead on the strength of two home runs.

Starting pitcher Julio Urías (3-5) walked Ke’Bryan Hayes to begin the game, then served up a two-run homer to Michael Chavis. In the second inning, Urías allowed a soft single to Tyler Heineman and another home run to sudden slugger Tucupita Marcano on back-to-back pitches.

Marcano, a 22-year-old rookie, had never homered in a major league game before this week. He has two in two games against the Dodgers.

Trea Turner’s home run, his fifth of the season, came two batters after Mitch Keller walked Mookie Betts to begin the third inning. That halved the Dodgers’ deficit to 4-2.

The Dodgers cut the lead to 4-3 thanks to some astute baserunning by Justin Turner. Tyler Beede relieved Keller in the sixth inning and walked Turner, then allowed a line-drive single to Chris Taylor. Turner turned on the jets and took third base uncontested.

With Kevin Pillar at the plate, Beede threw a low changeup that got past Heineman, the catcher. Pillar swung and missed at strike three, but Turner raced home from third base with the Dodgers’ third run.

The Dodgers put only one runner on base over the final three innings. Freddie Freeman led off the seventh with a hard-hit liner to the right-center field gap, but he was thrown out trying to stretch a single into a double. Chris Stratton struck out the side in the eighth. Will Crowe retired the side in order in the ninth.

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At 33-16, the Dodgers still own the National League’s best record. That merely added to the bewilderment of their back-to-back losses to begin their seven-game homestand.

Urías, for his part, made few mistakes outside of the home runs to Marcano and Chavis. He threw 70 of his 91 pitches for strikes. He walked one batter and struck out eight in six innings. He allowed eight hits but, other than the homers, none were the result of hard contact.

The Dodgers’ offense consisted of four hits against Keller (2-5) and four relievers. Five of their 11 strikeouts were called by home plate umpire Nate Tomlinson. They left eight runners on base and went 0 for 6 with runners in scoring position.

More to come on this story.