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- Updated: July 26, 2016
MILWAUKEE — A trio of players faced their former teams for the first time when the Brewers and Diamondbacks kicked off a four-game series on Monday at Miller Park.
Right-hander Chase Anderson got the start for Milwaukee against the D-backs, who sent out a lineup featuring former Brewers Jean Segura and Rickie Weeks Jr. Anderson and Segura were exchanged for each other — among other players — in a trade between the clubs this offseason. The Brewers selected Weeks with the second overall pick in the 2003 Draft, and he spent the first 11 seasons of his career with the team.
Before the series began, Anderson downplayed any additional significance about playing against Arizona, for whom he went 15-13 with a 4.18 ERA in the first two seasons of his career from 2014-15.
“I haven’t really thought too much about it,” Anderson said. “Obviously, it is my old team, but I look to go out there and lead our team to a victory. That’s the goal against every team we go out there and pitch. I expect nothing less.”
Anderson not only faced one of the players he was traded for in Segura on Monday, but a lineup that featured multiple hitters with whom he is familiar from his time in the desert.
Segura came to …
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