It all feels wrong in the Dodgers’ 3-2 loss to the Cubs

It was all backward, all wrong. The weather was semi-muggy, as if the Dodgers were playing the Cubs in Chicago. The mighty Dodgers offense acted like something the talent-thin Cubs might produce.

And Clayton Kershaw looked almost mortal.

It all turned into an awkward-feeling game, if ultimately a 3-2 Cubs victory Tuesday before a Dodger Stadium crowd of 52,326.

BOX SCORE: Cubs 3, Dodgers 2

The crowd pushed the Dodgers’ season attendance over the 3-million mark, the earliest in the season they’ve reached that total since 2008. But the crowd watched an odd game, Kershaw actually getting outpitched by Chicago left-hander Travis Wood.

It wasn’t that Kershaw was horrible, he was just a ways from being sharp. Or at least from the pitcher seen in his last couple of outings, when he did not allow a run. He can’t be perfect every game, right?

It took Kershaw 29 pitches just to get out of the first inning, a quick indication he would not have his finest control. In the third he gave up a run on a Dioner Navarro single, and by the end of the fourth he had thrown 69 pitches.

The Cubs pushed one more across in the sixth on a Starlin Castro base hit, and that ended it for Kershaw (13-8). He was charged with only one earned run in his 5 1/3 innings, the first time he’s failed to go at least six innings since April 23.

Kershaw walked three, hit one, threw a wild pitch and gave up seven hits.

As seems to be the way more often than not, Kershaw was not exactly given a wealth of offensive support. In half of his 28 starts this season, the Dodgers have scored two or less runs when he left the game.

The Dodgers finally pushed a run across against Wood (8-10) in the sixth. Hanley Ramirez blooped a single, took second on a wild Wood pickoff attempt and scored on a line-drive single by Juan Uribe.

The Cubs, however, got the run back in the seventh against reliever Ronald Belisario. After loading the bases with no outs on a pair of hits and a hit batter, Brian Bogusevic bounced into a double play that still allowed what would prove the winning run to score.

Wood left after seven innings, allowing one run on five hits. He struck out six.

The Dodgers managed to pull back within a run in the eighth against reliever Pedro Strop after Ramirez singled and Mark Ellis was hit by a pitch. Andre Ethier laced a single to center to score Ramirez, but the rally ended when pinch-hitter Skip Schumaker bounced into a double play.

And just to complete the strangeness to the game, Kevin Gregg -- who was in the Dodgers’ camp this spring and whom Manager Don Mattingly wanted to keep before he was released -- retired the Dodgers in the ninth to earn his 27th save.

It was the Cubs’ first victory against the Dodgers this season in six games.