Postgame Report: MIL (-130) Winner

The Brewers kept it rolling last night, winning their fifth game in a row with a 7-2 victory over the Braves.  

Joey Wentz cruised through the first two innings.  He had three K's and retired six in a row.  

Brewer's center fielder Blake Perkins led off the third with a base hit.  Danny Jansen flew out to right.  Perkins stole second base.  Nine hole hitter Joey Ortiz put the ball in the gap and recorded an infield single that moved the runner to third.  Leadoff hitter Caleb Durbin walked to load the bases.  

Bases loaded with one out.  

Joey Wentz got a shallow fly ball from William Contreras.  Two down with Christian Yellich at the plate.  He got ahead 0-2 on Yellich and made a good pitch with the curveball but the veteran didn't chase.  Yellich collected an RBI on an infield hit that scored Perkins from third. 

It's a 1-0 game.  Andrew Vaughn at the plate.  Wentz got ahead of Vaughn 0-2 and tossed a curveball in the dirt.  This one went to the backstop.  The wild pitched scored a run.  Andrew Vaughn battled Wentz for twelve pitches.  With the count full, Vaughn emerged victorious.  A base hit to left field scored a pair.  4-0 Brewers.  

Give credit to Wentz, he battled in the third.  He gave up four earned but he was a pitch a away from escaping the inning with no damage.  He had a good start, cruised through the fourth and the fifth inning.  Gave up another earned run in the sixth before exiting the game but his line:  5.2IP 7H 5ER 3K 1BB -- doesn't tell the entire story. 

Brewers Ace Freddy Peralta had a good start.  The Braves made him work, 108 pitches through five innings but he was clutch when it counted and only allowed one earned run on a solo homer from Braves' right fielder Eli White.  Peralta had seven K's in the game.  

The Braves loaded the bases in the sixth and the seventh inning but only managed one run.  They stranded 15 base runners in the game.  

The Brewers' bullpen didn't lock it down and the score doesn't reflect how close of a game it was.  The Braves could have won this game but the Brewers got all the breaks tonight.

It's a win nonetheless and I'll take it.  Four in a row for the Pickstreak blog.  It puts us at 5.36 units in play heading into tonight's action.