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Brewers starter Junior Guerra finds success with split-finger fastball

Not everybody was having fun watching Junior Guerra's split-finger fastball dance around on Wednesday night.

Certainly not the Los Angeles Dodgers, who managed just two hits against him over eight innings in an eventual 7-0 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers.

Jonathan Lucroy had his issues with it as well. But not enough to keep him from calling for it repeatedly from behind the plate as he watched Justin Turner, Adrian Gonzalez and Yasiel Puig flail away.

"He has a true split-finger," Lucroy said. "It's almost a borderline knuckler, the way it moves at times.