Tyler Alexander hasn’t looked too bad early this season, but when he signed as a free agent in February, hardly anyone thought that he’d be starting games for the club in the first week of April. A bevy of injuries to Milwaukee’s starting rotation has tested their depth early, so Alexander was called on tonight to face a struggling Reds offense. If those Reds hitters thought they would catch a break against Alexander, they were sorely mistaken.
Alexander set the tone early in this one, as he got TJ Friedl on a flyout to start the game and then struck out Spencer Steer and Elly De La Cruz.