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- Updated: August 24, 2016
MILWAUKEE — The Rockies’ decision to intentionally walk the Brewers’ Ryan Braun to put the go-ahead run on base in the seventh inning didn’t work out as planned. Braun came around to score the eventual winning run, but it’s a move that manager Walt Weiss assured that he would make again.
With a one-run lead and first base open with two outs in the seventh, the Rockies opted to put Braun on in favor of pitching to Hernan Perez with reliever Carlos Estevez. Estevez jumped ahead in the count, 0-2, before Perez shot a 98-mph fastball down the right-field line for a two-run triple to put the Brewers in front.
Colorado was held scoreless in the eighth and ninth to drop the game, 6-4, and the series to the Crew.
Weiss noted that with the tying run already at second base and Braun — one of the NL’s top hitters this season with a .316 average and 22 homers — at the plate, the decision to walk the Brewers’ left fielder was the clear choice.
“I’m not going to let Braun beat us,” Weiss said. “He’s one of those guys that I look at and he’s in scoring position when he steps in the box. I’m not ever going to pitch to Ryan Braun in a situation like that. No disrespect to whoever is …
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