CLEVELAND – Mother Nature let the Dodgers down. So did their bullpen. Rain was supposed to soak Cleveland all day Wednesday. But the forecast kept changing with the storm’s arrival pushed back far enough for the Dodgers and Cleveland Guardians to play their afternoon game. There was only some scattered light showers during Wednesday’s game. An all-day rain would have been better for the Dodgers. They blew a three-run lead, Tanner Scott and Alex Vesia combining to give up five runs in the eighth inning of a 7-4 loss to the Guardians. Lou Trivino gave up the first run of the Guardians’ comeback in the seventh inning and Dodgers manager Dave Roberts went to Scott early. He got out of the seventh but ran into trouble in the eighth. Jhonkensy Noel reached on an infield single. Will Wilson did the same, though his grounder had the look of a potential double play off the bat. Scott then walked Daniel Schneemann to load the bases with no outs. Scott struck out Austin Hedges but Nolan Jones poked a game-tying, two-run single through the left side. It was Scott’s third blown save in his past five appearances, second on this road trip. Vesia replaced Scott but fell behind 2-and-0 to Angel Martinez and left a fastball over the heart of the plate. Martinez lined it into the left-field seats for a three-run home run. The Guardians’ comeback ruined Clayton Kershaw’s chances for his first win of his latest post-surgery comeback. He survived some hard contact early to hold the Guardians to one run in his five innings. Kershaw gave up three balls with exit velocities of 105 mph or higher, with back-to-back walks mixed in, during the first inning. The Guardians hit nine balls with exit velocities of 98 mph or higher off Kershaw, including five in the first two innings. All of that loud contact produced just one run in the first inning. Kershaw got a double-play ball in the third inning and retired seven of the final eight batters he faced. He struck out three, moving within 26 of becoming the 20th pitcher in baseball history to record 3,000 strikeouts. The Dodgers’ offense started slowly. Guardians spot starter Kolby Allard retired 10 of the first 11 Dodgers batters, but Teoscar Hernandez’s one-out double in the fourth inning turned things around. Will Smith drove Hernandez in with his own double and Andy Pages drove Smith home with an RBI single. Two innings later, Mookie Betts drew a leadoff walk, moved up on a wild pitch and scored on Freddie Freeman’s RBI single. In the seventh, Kiké Hernandez made it a 4-1 lead when he doubled, moved up on a fly out and scored on a wild pitch.