LOS ANGELES -- The Dodgers didn’t amass a double-digit division lead by beating themselves, so they have some cleanup to do after dropping the opener of a four-game series to the last-place Giants, 3-2.

Two Giants runs scored on a double that seemed to fool right fielder Cody Bellinger and the decisive run scored when the Dodgers fouled up a potential double play. Kenta Maeda (7-4) suffered his second consecutive loss, while Tyler Beede was credited with his first Major League win, despite walking five in six innings.

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Maeda also suffered a bruised pitching hand on a fourth-inning comebacker. Postgame X-rays were negative, said manager Dave Roberts, who was probably removing Maeda after five innings and 89 pitches anyway, but had an added reason when the hand stiffened up.

Offensively, the Dodgers scored on a Max Muncy home run and a fielder’s choice grounder, a disappointing follow-up to winning three of four from the first-place Cubs over the weekend. The Dodgers left runners in scoring position in the third, fourth and fifth innings. The Giants had only three hits, but two of their runs were the direct result of leadoff walks.

“Just one of those nights where we have to regroup,” said Roberts.

Muncy slugged his solo home run and singled and Bellinger doubled to set up the Dodgers’ second run. But the Giants scored two runs off Maeda in the second inning and an unearned run off reliever Julio Urías in the sixth inning that proved the difference.

Maeda fell into the same pattern from his previous start in Anaheim, when he was buried by a five-run first inning. This time, he retired 12 of the last 13 Giants he faced after allowing four of the first seven to reach base.

“The first two innings, he really didn’t have command of his secondary pitches,” said Roberts. “Innings three through five were better. His line, five innings and two runs, was good enough for us to win the game, but we didn’t do our part.”

Although Maeda was more aggressive with the fastball in the first inning, at Roberts’ suggestion, he fell behind in the second inning. After a leadoff walk to Stephen Vogt and a single by Evan Longoria, Maeda thought he struck out Brandon Crawford (plate umpire Ryan Blakney disagreed). One pitch later, the nine-pitch at-bat ended with Crawford’s two-run double into the right-field corner that landed on the warning track near the box seats.

Bellinger, who has looked like a Gold Glove right fielder all year, reacted as if he thought the ball was heading for the seats and didn’t chase the ball aggressively into the corner. But the top-spinning liner bounced at the base of the box-seat railing and Bellinger flipped the ball back to the infield as both runners scored. Based on Statcast data, it would have been an impossible catch even for Bellinger, but Roberts didn’t think the runner at first base, Longoria, should have scored.

“I don’t know if he thought the ball was going to be out, because going to the line or to deep right and then getting the ball in, like, is very uncharacteristic,” said Roberts. “Cody is a very heady player, so as far as knowing that there’s a runner on first and it’s Longoria and there’s a chance to get the ball in and maybe there’s a play, it just didn’t look right to me. That’s just my eye, I didn’t look back at it. But I was very surprised to see Longo scoring on that ball.”

Muncy cut the deficit in half by leading off the bottom of the second inning with a 433-foot home run. Unlike the last homer he hit off the Giants -- the one he told pitcher Madison Bumgarner to get out of the ocean -- this time there was no incident. It was Muncy’s 17th home run of the season and fifth in the last eight games. Muncy has reached base in 27 consecutive games.

Urias took over for Maeda and walked the first two batters he faced. One of them scored when neither Urias nor first baseman Matt Beaty covered first to finish off a double-play grounder hit to Beaty. Shortstop Chris Taylor took Beaty’s throw for the out at second base, but his relay throw back to first sailed into the Giants dugout for an undeserved error as Tyler Austin was awarded home and batter Vogt second base.

“On the double-play ball, after Beaty gets it, secures it, makes a good throw -- it’s one of those, I think, there’s just a lack of communication,” said Roberts. “The pitcher’s got to say something because the play’s in front of him. They were both in a position to catch the baseball. But they were both in a position to let the baseball go and that just can’t happen. That’s more of a communication breakdown. Shouldn’t happen."