Suter battles nerves, shows promise in debut

SEATTLE — You don’t have to go to Harvard to know that there’s quite a sizable difference between Triple-A and the big leagues.

Brewers left-hander Brent Suter went to Harvard, and so did his team’s general manager, David Stearns, and so did the guy who signed Suter, Steffan Wilson, who’s now the national cross-checker for the Angels.

That’s a lot of brains behind one player, and it paid off when Suter made his Major League debut Friday night.

What Suter described as a “dream come true” didn’t end up with his dream scenario. Suter was knocked around a bit by the Mariners, giving up four runs on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings in a game Milwaukee would go on to lose, 7-6.

But Suter got a heck of a crash course at the highest level of baseball, and he impressed a few people along the way with an array of pitches that rarely broke the upper 80s but all seemed to avoid being straight.

“It’s kind of as advertised,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. “There’s some late movement going on that’s really confusing the hitter, for sure. There weren’t …

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