Bettis walks 7 as Rockies drop opener to Crew

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MILWAUKEE — After losing his sixth straight start last week, Jimmy Nelson made the case that he was pitching better than his box scores. On Monday, he could finally let a box score speak for itself.

In his first quality start in more than a month, Nelson scattered seven Rockies hits and yielded two runs over six innings of the Brewers’ 4-2 win at Miller Park. He didn’t walk a batter for the first time all season and threw his first pitches in a sixth inning since his most recent victory — a July 16 triumph over the Reds in which Nelson worked seven shutout innings.

Rockies leadoff man David Dahl scored the first of his two runs in the opening inning, but Nelson cut short …

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