The Milwaukee Brewers and Colorado Rockies played a back-and-forth game in Denver tonight, a classic Coors Field game, but it ended poorly for the Brewers, as the Rockies walked it off in extra innings. The loss overshadowed the return of Garrett Mitchell, who looked solid in his first game of the season.
Colorado struck first in this one. Rob Zastrzyny, tonight’s opener and the 15th different starting pitcher for the Brewers this season, had a 1-2-3 first, but in the bottom of the second, Brenton Doyle got a 2-2 fastball that was right down the middle, and down-the-middle fastballs are not always going to go great at Coors Field. Doyle didn’t miss it, and his eighth home run of the year made it 2-0 to the Rockies. They extended that lead in the third inning, when Charlie Blackmon, celebrating his 38th birthday, hit a one-out solo home run to right, his fourth of the season.
The Brewers, meanwhile, struggled to get anything going in the first three innings against Rockies starter Austin Gomber. William Contreras doubled in the first inning but was unable to score, and Eric Haase pulled a ball down the line in his first official at-bat as a Brewer in the third, but he was thrown out trying to stretch it into a double.
Milwaukee’s finally broke through in the fourth, when Contreras, Christian Yelich, and Willy Adames (who ended an 0-for-27 streak) led off with back-to-back-to-back singles to load the bases for Jackson Chourio, who jumped on the first pitch and knocked a two-RBI single through the left side of the infield. Rhys Hoskins grounded into a double play, but with two outs, Blake Perkins also got a first pitch he liked and lined an RBI single into right to tie the game at three.
Wilson, hoping for a shutdown inning, walked a couple batters and had runners on second and third with two out, but he got Nolan Jones to line out to Joey Ortiz (it was a soft liner, but Ortiz made a nice play) to end the inning and managed to put up a zero.
Some excitement occurred in the top of the fifth, when Ortiz laid down a bunt with one out and appeared to make it safely into first, but he was called out by first-base umpire Brian O’Nora for supposedly leaving the runner’s lane. He did not appear to leave the lane, which was the language that Pat Murphy surely used when he came out to argue and got himself tossed. (Upon further review: MLB actually widened the lane before the season. This was a bad call.)
William Contreras had Murph’s back, though, as he knocked the second pitch after the long layoff just over the high wall in right field for a solo home run to give Milwaukee a 4-3 lead. The homer gave Contreras a single, double, and home run through three at-bats. (He had four triples in 1,546 plate appearances coming into tonight’s game.) Of course, it should have been a two-run homer, but c’est la vie.
Pitching with the lead for the first time, Wilson continued to get himself into trouble, when Jake Cave and Blackmon led off the bottom of the fifth with back-to-back singles. Wilson nearly got out of it when he struck out Ezequiel Tovar and got a ground ball from Ryan McMahon, but the ground ball wasn’t hit nearly hard enough to turn two, and Cave scored from third to tie it at four. But Elias Díaz and Brendan Rodgers followed with two more singles, the second of which scored McMahon. Díaz was caught in a pickle to end the inning, but the Rockies had regained the lead, 5-4.
Adames led off the sixth with his second hit, but Chourio followed with a double play and Hoskins flew out to deep right. Wilson was removed after the fifth—he had a pretty rough night, lasting just four innings and allowing seven hits, five runs, and two walks, and lots of that damage was done on hard contact, as he gave up five batted balls with exit velocities over 100 mph.
Wilson was replaced by Hoby Milner, who didn’t fare any better than Wilson, as he gave up back-to-back one-out doubles to Doyle and Jones, which scored another run. Milner escaped with no further damage, but Colorado had increased their lead to 6-4.
Garrett Mitchell got his first plate appearance of the season when he led off the top of the seventh with a walk (he could easily have been called out on ball four) against new pitcher Anthony Molina. But Molina struck out Haase and got groundouts from Turang and Ortiz, and the Brewers were scoreless in the seventh, and running out of time.
After Milner looked much better in a 1-2-3 bottom of the seventh, Yelich looked to kickstart the Brewers’ offense when he hit a one-out triple off of Molina into the left field gap. Adames followed with his third single of the game and cut the Rockies’ lead to one. Acting manager Rickie Weeks then brought on Sal Frelick to pinch hit for Chourio, and what ensued was one of the weirder plays I’ve seen all season: Frelick hit Díaz’s glove with his swing, which would result in catcher’s interference, but the ball was live, and McMahon didn’t field it at third. (Apparently this is a thing that can happen!) That put runners on the corners with just one out.
Colorado turned to righty Justin Lawrence to face Hoskins, but Hoskins went after the first pitch and knocked a fly ball into center field, and Adames scored from third with no trouble to tie the game at six. That brought up Mitchell again, and he also jumped on the first pitch and hit a bullet up the middle (108.3 mph exit velocity) for his first hit of the season. That set up a big moment for Eric Haase, who lined his second hit of the game into left field to score Frelick from second and give the Brewers the lead.
Back in front, Milwaukee turned to Elvis Peguero for the eighth inning, and he started out by walking leadoff hitter Brendan Rodgers, but he got the next hitter, Michael Toglia, to hit into a 4-6-3 double play. The double play turned out to be big: Doyle got a Peguero fastball down the middle and deposited it into the right-field seats for his second homer of the game, which tied it at seven. (One might question the move for Peguero, as the Brewers had a fully-stocked bullpen after Jakob Junis was the only reliever needed on Sunday; yes, I’m talking about Bryan Hudson.)
Colorado went to righty Victor Vodnik (who once hacked the Gotham City Stock Exchange) for the top of the ninth against the top of the Brewers’ order, and he didn’t have much trouble retiring them in order. Milwaukee turned to Trevor Megill to keep the score tied. With one out, Tovar hit a ground ball hard to third base that Ortiz gloved, but his throw bounced in front of Hoskins and he couldn’t handle it; McMahon followed with a single that put runners on first and second for Díaz. Díaz hit a fly ball into foul territory down the right field line that Frelick was able to make a play on; Tovar moved up to third, but Rodgers grounded out to third and we were headed for extra innings.
Adames led off the 10th against new pitcher Tyler Kinley (who came in with an 8.27 ERA) with a shallow fly ball into foul territory in left that was caught by Tovar and failed to advance ghost runner Yelich to third. But Yelich stole third with Frelick at the plate—a very, very close play—and Frelick walked, bringing up Hoskins again with a runner on third and less than two outs. With Hoskins up, Frelick stole second, taking away the danger of the double play, but Hoskins hit one right at McMahon at third and Yelich, who was running on contact, was thrown out at home (for what felt like the 357th time this season). That brought up Mitchell with runners on the corners and two outs, but he struck out, and the Rockies would have a chance to walk it off in the bottom of the 10th.
Joel Payamps, who has been struggling of late, was brought in to try to keep Colorado off the board. Toglia scaled a 3-2 fastball to center and Mitchell caught it, but it moved ghost runner Aaron Schunk to third; the Brewers then intentionally walked Doyle and Jones to load the bases, and then brought in Frelick to set up a five-man infield. All of the positioning didn’t matter, as Jake Cave jumped on the first pitch from Payamps and lined a single into center field that ended the game.
It was a tough loss for the Brewers, who led this one twice and had two separate multi-run comebacks, but just couldn’t hold the lead. They’ll also feel they were wronged by the bad call on Ortiz’s bunt, but they still had plenty of opportunities to win the game. Offensive standouts included Contreras (3-for-5, a double, a solo home run, two runs scored), Yelich (2-for-5, a triple, two runs scored, a stolen base), and Chourio (1-for-3, a run scored, two RBI). They also got good debuts from catcher Eric Haase (2-for-4, an RBI) and Garrett Mitchell (1-for-2, a walk).
The Brewers will get three more shots at this Rockies team, starting with tomorrow night, same time, same place, when Dallas Keuchel will make his second start for the Brewers against Ryan Feltner.
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