Sometimes, the best thing for a struggling offense is a trip to Coors Field. In a game that finally ended a weird nearly-six-year stretch in which the Brewers couldn’t win a series in Denver, the Milwaukee bats more than doubled up on the seven runs they scored yesterday and all but erased the run differential deficit they faced after their disastrous opening series against the Yankees. The Rockies are a bad team, but this was a true beatdown by the Milwaukee lineup.
Rockies starter Antonio Senzatela, who came in with a 0.00 ERA but troubling peripherals in two starts, had no problems in the first inning, as he got Brice Turang on a groundout, struck out Jackson Chourio, then made a fantastic play on a Christian Yelich tapper that looked destined to be an infield hit.