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- Updated: May 15, 2016
MILWAUKEE — Inning after inning Saturday night, the Padres presented scoring opportunities on a platter. Inning after inning, the Brewers passed.
The result was a long, frustrating, 8-7 loss in 12 innings at Miller Park, where five hours and four minutes of baseball produced some statistical oddities the Brewers might not see again all season. Here is a sampling:
• With Ryan Braun off-limits because of a right wrist injury, the Brewers went 2-for-16 with runners in scoring position, twice took called third strikes to end an inning with the bases loaded and left 16 men on base, a season-high and the most since Milwaukee left 17 men on base in a 15-inning loss to the Twins in 2012.
• It marked only the fourth time in franchise history that the Brewers drew 12 or more walks in a game and lost. That had not happened since June 5, 1999, when the American League Brewers lost an interleague game to the Rockies in Denver, 12-10.
• For the second time in franchise history, and the first time since the club’s first season in Milwaukee in 1970, the Brewers benefitted from two catcher interference calls in the same game. In both instances, Hector Sanchez’s mistake loaded the bases, …
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