<p>BERLIN — Record-chasing Robert Lewandowski scored a first-half hat trick on Saturday as 10-man Bayern Munich kept its four-point lead at the top of the Bundesliga with a 4-0 win over Stuttgart.</p>
<p>Bayern only started playing well after Canadian youngster Alphonso Davies was sent off for a bad tackle on Stuttgartās Wataru Endo in the 12th minute, and the defending championsā response kept second-place Leipzig at bay before the teams meet on April 4.</p>
<p>Lewandowskiās 33rd, 34th and 35th goals of the season leave him needing just five more to match Bayern and West Germany great Gerd MĆ¼llerās Bundesliga record of 40 goals from the 1971-72 season. Eight rounds remain. Lewandowski’s goals on Saturday did move him past Klaus Fischer to second in the all-time top Bundesliga scorers, behind Muller.</p>
<p>Davies was initially shown a yellow card for landing with his studs on Endoās ankle, but a VAR check upgraded it to a red.</p>
<p>The sending off only seemed to rouse his teammates. Serge Gnabry crossed for Lewandowski to open his account in the 18th minute, four minutes before Thomas MĆ¼ller and Leroy SanĆ© played their way through the Stuttgart defense for Gnabry to get Bayernās second goal.</p>
<p>MĆ¼ller set up Lewandowskiās second a minute later, and the Poland star completed his hat trick in the 39th after being set up by SanĆ©.</p>
<p>Stuttgartās SaÅ”a KalajdžiÄ, who had scored in each of his last seven appearances, missed some good chances in the second half for the visitors.</p>
<p>Erling Haaland scored his second goal late to salvage a 2-2 draw for Borussia Dortmund at Cologne, but the visitors dropped four points behind fourth-place Eintracht Frankfurt, which emerged from a bruising game with a 5-2 win over Union Berlin.</p>
<p>American forward Josh Sargent scored an own-goal in Werder Bremenās 2-1 loss at home to third-place Wolfsburg.</p>
<p>Last-place Schalke was hosting Borussia Mƶnchengladbach later Saturday.</p>
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