"I thought it took him a while to settle into the game," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said of Pena, acquired in the 2012 trade that sent Zack Greinke to the Angels. "Really, his best work, to me, was in [his] third inning against [Joey] Votto and [Brandon] Phillips, which were really key spots in the game. I thought he started getting into a groove at that point. Sometimes that's kind of what you expect in your first time."
The Brewers were clinging to a 3-2 lead in that inning, the fifth, when Ivan DeJesus Jr. hit a one-out double.