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Crew posts record-setting K mark but increases walks
- Updated: October 3, 2016
DENVER — Domingo Santana swung and missed, and the Brewers were saddled with a Major League record they would just as soon forget.
With 12 strikeouts in Sunday’s 6-4 win over the Rockies, including Santana’s whiff in the fourth inning, the Brewers set the all-time single-season record with 1,543 strikeouts. With their 77th double-digit strikeout game, they broke the mark set by the 2013 Astros, who struck out 1,535 times.
A day earlier, the Brewers broke the National League record by passing the 2010 D-backs, who whiffed 1,529 times.
“You’re always going to [try to] figure out a way, ‘How do we score more runs?’ That’s the bottom line,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said in assessing his offense. “We re-made how we’re trying to score runs significantly this year. That was the big difference.”
He was referring to the Brewers’ dramatic increase in walks, from 412 last season to 599 in 2016, a 45 percent increase. …
