Dodgers split-squad teams lose to Cubs and Rangers

THE GAME: The Dodgers played a pair of split-squad games Saturday. Dalton Rushing and Nick Senzel hit two-run home runs in Surprise, but that Dodgers team lost 7-6 to the Texas Rangers. At Camelback Ranch, the Chicago Cubs held the Dodgers to four hits and handed them a 6-2 defeat.

HITTING REPORT: Rushing was 2 for 3 with that two-run home run against the Rangers. … Santiago Espinal had a single and a double and is 6 for 11 (.545) this spring. … Kyle Tucker got his first hit of the spring, a single against the Rangers in his seventh at-bat of the Cactus League schedule. He has drawn four walks. … In his first at-bat since a knee injury ended his season early in August, outfield prospect Mike Sirota hit a home run against the Rangers. So did Jake Gelof. … Freddie Freeman, Logan Wagner, Eliezer Alfonzo and James Tibbs III had the Dodgers’ only hits against the Cubs, all singles. The Dodgers scored their two runs in the ninth inning on a bases-loaded walk and a passed ball.

PITCHING REPORT: Justin Wrobleski allowed one hit in two scoreless innings against the Cubs. … Edwin Diaz and Tanner Scott each threw a scoreless inning. Diaz walked two and Scott gave up a single. … In Surprise, Will Klein and Carlos Duran gave up five runs in the fifth and sixth innings.

UP NEXT: Angels (LHP Reid Detmers) at Dodgers (RHP Landon Knack), 12:05 p.m. Sunday, Camelback Ranch, SportsNet LA, 570 AM