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- Updated: October 3, 2016
DENVER — September callup Andrew Susac had one last chance to make an impression on the Brewers, and it wasn’t going well. Granted a start in Sunday’s season finale, he was hitless in his first four at-bats with a trio of strikeouts before connecting in the 10th for a two-run home run, powering a 6-4 win over the Rockies on Sunday.
“Outhouse to penthouse,” Susac said, smiling.
The Brewers finished their season 73-89 and the Rockies 75-87 with a game that felt like a replay of the night before, with the Rockies coming back against Brewers closer Tyler Thornburg in the ninth before losing it in extra innings on a homer. Susac’s shot off Chris Rusin was his first home run in a Brewers uniform.
The Brewers took a one-run lead in the eighth on Domingo Santana’s two-run homer off Carlos Estevez, but they coughed it up in the next frame. On a pair of broken-bat hits and a costly curveball in the dirt that bounced away from Susac for a wild pitch, Thornburg blew his third save in five days when Jordan Patterson brought Nolan Arenado home with a single in the ninth inning. However, the Brewers took the lead for good with a long ball — just as on Saturday, when Chris Carter launched the go-ahead shot in the 10th.
The late scoring nullified Rockies rookie right-hander German Marquez’s excellent start over six innings. He limited Milwaukee to two runs on six hits with seven strikeouts and one walk. The only damage came on Orlando Arcia’s second-inning double, which center fielder Charlie Blackmon lost in the sun, and Jake Elmore’s groundout later in the inning.
“He’s done a nice job for us since he came up,” Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. “First out of the bullpen, and it’s nice to see him make three starts for us at the end. Twenty-one-year-old kid with a very bright future.”
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDArenado, Carter tie for home run title: Arenado homered in the first game of the three-game series, and Carter entered the season finale with three homers in his previous four games, but neither slugger went deep on Sunday. They finished the season tied for the National League lead with 41 homers. Arenado was tied with Nationals right fielder Bryce Harper for the NL lead last season with 42 home runs.
“I had a two-homer lead after the first at-bat of the …
