ATLANTA -- Since July 4, the Los Angeles Dodgers sport a league-best record of 20-3. Each of the losses has come against the struggling Atlanta Braves, who did it again Wednesday.

Pinch-hitter Tyler Flowers hit a two-run homer with two outs in the eighth inning to lift the Braves to a 5-3 victory and end the Dodgers nine-game winning streak.

"It just so happens we play good games against them in particular," Flowers said. "We have played good games against a number of other teams in first place."

The loss broke a 53-game streak in which the Dodgers had won when leading at any point. Atlanta broke an 11-game Los Angeles winning streak on July 20 and has split six games with the Dodgers this season.

"They play hard. They play the right way," Los Angeles manager Dave Roberts said. "They're a scrappy bunch."

After rookie Johan Camargo coaxed a walk, Flowers connected on the first pitch from reliever Pedro Baez (3-2) for his ninth home run.

Roberts said, "Bad walk to Camargo and that first-pitch slider to Flowers he left up. Other than that, we played a clean baseball game. That two-out walk ... you've got the eighth-place hitter and to walk him is probably the thing that he'd like to have back."

It was the first career pinch-hit homer for Flowers and broke Atlanta's six-game losing streak. Flowers had been 1-for-5 as a pinch hitter.

"Pinch-hitting hasn't been very kind to me," Flowers said. "The hardest thing is just controlling your emotions and heart rate when you get in there, which seems kind of weird. The first at-bat of a game I start isn't that way."

The winning pitcher was Rex Brothers (2-2), who worked 1 2/3 innings of scoreless relief and struck out pinch-hitter Enrique Hernandez with two runners on base to end the seventh inning.

Arodys Vizcaino pitched a scoreless ninth inning to earn his third save. He struck out Yasmani Grandal to end the game.

Los Angeles starter Brock Stewart, a converted reliever, was limited to 66 pitches in four innings and allowed two runs on three hits and three walks in his second start.

"Brock was good," Roberts said. "He was a little frustrated because he didn't throw as many strikes as he would like to, but I thought he threw well. It was positive in that we stretched him out a little bit more."

Atlanta's Julio Teheran left with cramping in his right thigh after five innings and 64 pitches, having allowed three runs on four hits with four strikeouts. Teheran remains winless in his career against the Dodgers.

"He's OK for his next start," Atlanta manager Brian Snitker said. "He didn't want to come out. It wasn't his decision. It was mine. I just erred on the side of caution."

The Dodgers jumped ahead 1-0 in the second inning when Cody Bellinger hit a solo homer to center, his 30th. The home run matched the National League rookie record for left-handed batters set by Philadelphia's Willie Montanez in 1971.

The Braves took a 2-1 lead in the bottom half when Danny Santana lifted a two-run homer to right, his third. They were the first runs allowed this season by Stewart.

The Dodgers squared things at 2-2 with a run in the fourth. Chris Taylor was hit by a pitch, stole second, aggressively went to third on a fly to right and scored on Joc Pederson's hard-hit groundout to first base.

Los Angeles took a 3-2 lead in the fifth. Yasiel Puig doubled and scored on Chase Utley's single to left.

Atlanta evened it at 3-3 in the bottom of the fifth when Freddie Freeman drove in Ender Inciarte with a single to center.

Both teams had chances in the seventh to break the tie. The first two Dodgers reached, but weren't able to advance. The Braves rallied with two outs on a pair of walks, but the threat ended when Freeman was thrown out at the plate trying to score on an infield single by Nick Markakis.

NOTES: The Dodgers activated RHP Yu Darvish, who was acquired from Texas on Monday. Darvish will make his debut with the team Friday when it begins its three-game series in New York against the Mets. RHP Josh Ravin was optioned to Triple-A Oklahoma City to make room for Darvish. ... Veteran Atlanta INF Brandon Phillips played third base for the first time in his major league career Wednesday. Phillips was moved from second base to make room for Ozzie Albies, the team's top infield prospect. ... Atlanta's Matt Adams was not in the starting lineup Tuesday. He got his first start in left field Monday and left the game in the fifth inning with dizziness. ... Los Angeles LHP Rich Hill was named National League Pitcher of the Month for July. Hill was 4-0 with a 1.45 ERA, striking out 40 and walking five in 31 innings. ... The single by Braves RF Nick Markakis in the eighth inning leaves him one hit shy of 2,000.