MILWAUKEE - The Brewers looked every bit like a team playing its 20th game in as many days.
Milwaukee, leading the National League Central by 51⁄2 games to start the day and 19 games above .500, committed a pair of costly errors and mustered just four hits against Colorado Rockies left-
hander Jorge De La Rosa in a 10-4 loss Sunday afternoon at Miller Park.
“It’s going to happen,” said Brewers third baseman Aramis Ramirez, who made one of Milwaukee’s two errors. “It’s a 162-game season, a long season so you’re going to have days like this that we don’t pitch well and don’t play defense. We only got four hits, so we didn’t do anything right.”
Colorado avoided a second sweep by the Brewers in as many weeks by jumping early on Brewers right-hander Yovani Gallardo (5-5), who recorded two quick outs to open the first before allowing a walk and four straight hits, including a two-run double by left fielder Corey Dickerson, to give the Rockies a 3-0 lead.
The Rockies tacked on runs in the second and third then, after Milwaukee cut the deficit to three runs in the fourth, added three more in the fifth on errors by Ramirez and catcher Jonathan Lucroy.
Shortstop Troy Tulowitzki and left fielder Corey Dickerson opened the inning with base hits off Gallardo, which brought up catcher Wilin Rosario, who already had two hits on the day.
Rosario chopped Gallardo’s first offering down the line to third, but it got past Ramirez’s glove and rolled into left field, letting two runs score.
Shortstop Jeff Bianchi threw home to try and catch Dickerson but Lucroy, seeing Rosario trying to reach third, rifled a shot back to and past Ramirez, letting Rosario score.
“He dove for the ball and I just kept going and Stu was kind of holding me up but I kind of noticed he was pretty far away to be able to make the throw, so I took off and slid,” Dickerson said. “I was kind of - that’s when I got the strawberry (on his left leg), so I really
didn’t pay attention after that. So I really didn’t know what happened behind me.”
De La Rosa (8-6) began his career with the Brewers but was 1-2 with an 8.39 ERA in five previous career starts against Milwaukee. He had no trouble finding a rhythm Sunday and faced the minimum number of batters through three innings.
Milwaukee put together a small rally in the fourth, starting with a leadoff home run by right fielder Ryan Braun, his 11th of the season and cut the deficit to 5-2 on left fielder Khris Davis’ sacrifice fly.
Two wild pitches led to two more Brewers runs in the sixth but De La Rosa finished the inning and called it a day, having held Milwaukee to four runs on four hits with four strikeouts.
Colorado 10, Milwaukee 4
COL ab r h bi MIL ab r h bi
Blckmon cf 5 0 1 0 Weeks 2b 4 0 0 0
Barnes rf 5 0 1 0 Braun rf 4 2 2 1
Morneau 1b 3 1 1 1 Lucroy c 4 1 1 0
Hawkins rp 0 0 0 0 Mldondo c 0 0 0 0
Tulwtzk ss 5 2 3 0 Ramirez 3b 1 1 0 0
Rutldg pr 0 0 0 0 Overbay 1b 0 0 0 0
Dckrson lf 4 2 2 2 Davis lf 2 0 0 2
Stubbs ph 0 0 0 0 Rynolds 1b 4 0 0 0
Rosario c 5 2 2 1 Bianchi ss 4 0 0 0
Wheeler 3b 4 0 1 0 Herrera cf 3 0 0 0
Kahnle rp 0 0 0 0 Gllrdo sp 2 0 1 0
McKenry ph 1 0 0 0 Grzlnny rp 1 0 0 0
LMahiu 2b 5 1 2 1 Kintzlr rp 0 0 0 0
DLaRosa sp 3 1 1 0 Wang rp 0 0 0 0
Culbrsn 3b 2 1 1 2
Totals 42 10 15 7 Totals 29 4 4 3
Colorado 311 030 020 - 10
Milwaukee 000 202 000 - 4
E-Lucroy 1, Ar.Ramirez 1. LOB-Milwaukee 3, Colorado 8. 2B-Barnes (10), Braun (16), Dickerson (13), Lucroy (28), Rosario (15). HR-Braun (11), Culberson (2). SB-Ar.Ramirez 2 (3).
IP H R ER BB SO
Colorado
De La Rosa W, 8-6 6 4 4 4 2 4
Kahnle 2 0 0 0 0 2
Hawkins 1 0 0 0 1 0
Milwaukee
Gallardo L, 5-5 5 10 8 5 1 3
Gorzelanny 2 1 0 0 0 2
Kintzler X\c 4 2 2 0 0
Wang 1 Z\c 0 0 0 1 1
Inherited runners-scored-Wang 2-0. HBP-Ar.Ramirez (by De La Rosa). WP-De La Rosa 3 (6).
Umpires-Home, CB Bucknor; First, Hal Gibson III; Second, Dale Scott; Third, Dan Iassogna.
T-3:33. A-43,656 (45,808)
