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- Updated: May 6, 2016
CINCINNATI — The Brewers’ plan to reverse Chase Anderson’s recent fortunes is simple:
Keep pitching him.
Anderson will remain on schedule in the starting rotation, manager Craig Counsell said Thursday, after Anderson surrendered two more home runs and found himself in a seven-run deficit after two innings of a 9-5 loss to the Reds at Great American Ball Park. It was Anderson’s fourth straight defeat.
His numbers in those games stand out. In his last 18 1/3 innings, Anderson has allowed 34 hits including eight home runs, and walked 10 batters. Those baserunners have added up to 24 runs (21 earned) against Anderson, who didn’t allow any earned runs in his first two Brewers starts.
“We need Chase,” Counsell said. “It’s important that we get him going. We need him to pitch well.”
And that means continuing to use him as a starter?
“Yeah,” Counsell said.
Counsell has cited Anderson’s track record in Arizona as the foundation of his faith the 28-year-old will turn things around. But the Brewers also have scant alternatives at the moment. Zach Davies and …
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