RELATED: Ranking the Brewers 1-28: This might be the best team in franchise history.on paper The Brewers fell to 28-25-1 on opening day, 16-16-1 opening on the road and 12-12-1 since joining the NL in 1998. Happ followed by smoking a two-run double off the wall in center.Ī Rowdy Tellez single, one-out double by Victor Caratini - in his first Brewers at-bat - and a sacrifice fly by Cain pulled Milwaukee to within 5-4 in the eighth.īrosseau struck out with Caratini on second as the tying run, however, and David Robertson worked a scoreless ninth to close the game out for the Cubs. Christian Yelich followed with a fly ball to shallow left and Wong tagged and scored easily, helped by the weak throwing arm of Happ, making it a 3-3 game.Īaron Ashby sandwiched a pair of groundouts around a Clint Frazier double in the bottom of the seventh, prompting Counsell to bring in the right-handed Cousins to face slugger Willson Contreras.įour pitches into the at-bat Cousins plunked Contreras, leading to a glare and some angry words from the Cubs catcher, who has had his share of dustups with Milwaukee pitchers in the past. That brought up Willy Adames, who after striking out twice and grounding into a double play his first three times up, yanked a double down the left-field line against Chris Martin.Īdames' double scored Cain and moved Wong to third. Kolten Wong advanced Cain with a groundout. Milwaukee was down, 3-1, in the seventh when its fortunes turned against ex-Brewer Daniel Norris as he allowed a leadoff double to Cain and then walked Mike Brosseau. 'We had chances and we hit some balls decent, but we just couldn’t get that next hit.'

'It felt like a game (in which) we didn’t time our hits very well,' Counsell said. 'I don’t know what we were with runners in scoring position (1 for 10), but it wasn’t good. Lorenzo Cain drove in a pair of runs and even newcomer Victor Caratini contributed a double in his first Brewers at-bat. The offense strung together 10 hits but needed one more in the eighth and fell short.

Burnes was decent but threw only 83 pitches in five innings as he continues his ramp-up from spring training while also trying to get a feel for his money pitch, the cutter.

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