Dodgers" Bats Awaken as Mets" Streak Ends LOS ANGELES - Out of respect for Clayton Kershaw, the Dodgers" imposing left-hander, Terry Collins inserted three right-handed batters into the Mets" lineup Sunday. The move backfired in an unexpected way, as the three - Justin Turner, Ronny Cedeno and Mike Nickeas, all highly capable defensive players - contributed more errors (three) than hits (zero) during the Mets" 8-3 loss. The ugly game sullied the beatific West Coast vibe Sunday afternoon at Dodger Stadium, as well as the Mets" seven-game trip, on which they finished 4-3. Collins had praised the way his team had bounced back to win four games in a row after sleepwalking through its first two road games against the Chicago Cubs. But Sunday's game was another he probably hoped to forget. "We didn't play good tonight," Collins said. We didn't run the bases very well early, we didn't catch the ball. Later, some base on balls got in the way, along with some bad fielding. Entering the day, the Dodgers had been shut out in five of their last six games, struggling to produce any sort of offense, and had lost seven straight. The Mets" sloppiness put to waste a fairly effective start from Dillon Gee, who went six innings and allowed four runs, two of them earned. Meanwhile, Kershaw was excellent, striking out nine in seven innings. But he, too, was victimized by his defense, as only one of the three runs he allowed was earned. The Mets took an early lead on Scott Hairston's run-scoring single in the first inning, though poor base running probably cost the Mets a chance for more. Andres Torres was picked off, and Hairston was thrown out trying to stretch his hit to a double. "After the inning was over, I said, "We could have been up, 3-0, here against this guy," " Collins said. That for sure hurt us. In the Dodgers" half, Juan Rivera smacked a line drive to right field, where Lucas Duda took a step forward and then froze before chasing back for it in vain. The ball dropped for a double that drove in A. J. Ellis from second, tying the game, 1-1. The Mets crept ahead in the third by taking advantage of sluggish play from the Dodgers. Kershaw walked Gee to open the inning. One out later, Ruben Tejada singled, putting Gee on second. Gee scored when Dee Gordon flung a potential-double play ball into the Mets" dugout. Hairston came up next and rolled a routine grounder to shortstop. But Gordon bounced the throw to first, pulling James Loney off the bag, allowing Hairston to cruise there safely. As Loney turned and held his glove in the air to show the umpire, David Wright sprinted opportunistically around third and scored, putting the Mets ahead, 3-1. The Mets returned the favor with a two-error effort in the fifth. After Juan Uribe's leadoff walk, Cedeno bobbled a potential double-play toss at second. The runners moved to second and third on Kershaw's sacrifice. Then Turner booted Gordon's soft grounder to first, letting a run score. Ellis's sacrifice fly tied the game. In the sixth, the Dodgers took the lead - their first in 66 innings - when Loney's groundout to second brought Rivera, who had walked to start the inning, home from third. There were more defensive problems, and more runs, in the seventh. With the bases loaded and one out, Miguel Batista got Rivera to ground back to the mound. Batista fired home to start a potential double play, but Nickeas could not handle the throw, letting two runs score as the ball rolled to the backstop. "It just came off the end of my glove," Nickeas said. The Dodgers added two runs with a sacrifice fly and a run-scoring double. All four runs in the inning, which pushed the score to 8-3, were unearned. The loss was not the only sting the Mets suffered Sunday. Beforehand, Wright and R. A. Dickey were named to the National League All-Star roster, but Wright, who led the fans" voting for third base last week by several hundred thousand, found out he had been relegated to a reserve role after being passed by Pablo Sandoval of the San Francisco Giants. Wright said he was disappointed, but he remained diplomatic about the results. General Manager Sandy Alderson, however, took to his Twitter account, @MetsGM, to deliver a more penetrating comment. He wrote, "Wright vs. Sandoval: A city of 8 million was outvoted by a city of 800,000." Terry Collins said Monday that Jason Bay (concussion) would run and hit off a tee under the observation of the Mets" medical staff Monday in New York. ... Frank Francisco (oblique) was expected to begin playing catch on Monday.