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Braun’s 2 HRs, 7 RBIs lift Brewers in Arizona
- Updated: August 7, 2016
PHOENIX — The Brewers missed several chances to score early against the D-backs on Saturday. Ryan Braun made sure that wouldn’t be the case all night, in what turned into an offensive onslaught.
Braun belted a pair of three-run homers and matched Milwaukee’s franchise record with seven RBIs, highlighting a 15-6 win at Chase Field. Keon Broxton became the first rookie in Brewers history to collect five hits (his previous high was two), Jonathan Villar added four more, and the Brewers snapped a skid of three losses in four games by pounding out a season-high 19 hits and drawing 10 walks in support of starter Matt Garza. The 15 runs were a season high for Milwaukee.
“The big hit was [Braun’s] three-run homer when it was 2-0,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “To me that was the big hit in the game. He had a great night.”
Garza (3-4) won for the second straight start, allowing three runs (two earned) on three hits over 6 1/3 innings, his longest outing of the season. The right-hander opened the game by retiring 13 of the first 14 batters he faced and didn’t allow a run until the seventh.
D-backs starter Patrick Corbin (4-11) took the loss, allowing four earned runs on eight hits in just five innings. Welington Castillo and Jean Segura each hit two-run homers in the seventh, but they came too late as Arizona fell to 18-39 at home. The D-backs have won consecutive games just once (July 16-17) since June 24.
“We had a hard time getting a few guys out — Braun, Broxton, Villar — that’s just not good,” D-backs manager Chip Hale said. “We did not perform like we needed to, especially after coming off a big win last night. Some of it was the offense was playing defense for a long time early in the game, and sometimes that puts you on your heels.”
MOMENTS THAT MATTEREDPayback: In June 2014, D-backs reliever Evan Marshall got a standing ovation from the Chase Field faithful and high-fives in the dugout after being ejected for plunking Braun during a tense Brewers-D-backs series. On Saturday, Braun won Round 2 with his 408-foot home run off Marshall, extending a 2-0 lead to 5-0 in the sixth. When Braun hit another three-run homer off Dominic Leone an inning later, it gave him four home runs in the first five games of the Brewers’ road trip.
“I feel good. Even my outs are hit hard,” Braun …
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