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Box Score<\/a><\/p>\n

29 down, one to go for the Brewers\u2019 spring season. The Milwaukee bullpen combined for a gem and the bats looked ready for primetime as the Brewers thoroughly defeated the Reds, 9-1, on Monday night at American Family Field in Milwaukee. It was the first of two final tune-up games against the Reds before the Brewers open the season against the White Sox on Thursday.<\/p>\n

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Aaron Ashby started this game but didn\u2019t make it out of the first inning. Clearly on a pitch count, he was pulled with two on and two out in the first after 26 pitches\u2014he\u2019d walked two, struck out one, and gotten Elly De La Cruz to fly out. Blake Holub came out of the pen and struck out Eugenio Su\u00e1rez to end the inning.<\/p>\n

After Ashby\u2019s mild hiccup in the first, the rest of the Brewers\u2019 projected opening day bullpen mostly mowed down the Reds. Holub had a nice outing as he pitched a perfect second inning as well, and then literally every other pitcher (in addition to Ashby) that is expected to make the team\u2019s bullpen pitched an inning. Six of those seven innings were scoreless. The only blemish was during Easton McGee\u2019s inning, when TJ Friedl doubled and then scored on a Ke\u2019Bryan Hayes single. Otherwise, DL Hall, Jared Koenig, Grant Anderson, Abner Uribe, \u00c1ngel Zerpa, and Trevor Megill combined for six shutout innings with only two hits allowed, two walks, and four strikeouts.<\/p>\n

That\u2019ll do it this spring for the opening day bullpen, as obviously none of them will pitch in tomorrow\u2019s last spring game. The whole group will presumably be available Thursday.<\/p>\n

As for the hitters, they looked ready, too, for the most part. The Brewers struck first in the second inning when Christian Yelich singled, Luis Rengifo doubled, and Jake Bauers walked to load the bases, and after a Sal Frelick strikeout, David Hamilton doubled in Yelich and Rengifo. Bauers scored, too, when Garrett Mitchell grounded into a run-scoring fielder\u2019s choice.<\/p>\n

Brice Turang (who all five of your friendly BCB writers chose as this year\u2019s team MVP<\/a>) led off the bottom of the third with his third home run of the spring. The Brewers had some traffic on the bases in the fourth, when Frelick led off with a double, went to third on a Hamilton single, and then scored when Tyler Stephenson threw the ball away trying to catch Hamilton stealing second. Hamilton scored, too, when Mitchell hit another RBI groundout.<\/p>\n

In the fifth, William Contreras hit a homer down the right-field line into the bleachers, and Andrew Vaughn led off the seventh with the biggest hit of the night, a 109 mph, 432-foot bomb to left. The Brewers\u2019 last run came in the eighth, when the ice-cold Garrett Mitchell\u2014who went just 1-for-4 tonight but only struck out once (looking) and knocked in three runs\u2014hit a 108 mph RBI double.<\/p>\n

Almost everyone in the Brewer lineup had a good day; the exception was leadoff hitter and designated hitter (I don\u2019t think this will happen much once the games count) Jackson Chourio, who was 0-for-3 with two strikeouts. But everyone else in the starting lineup had a hit save for Bauers (who was 0-for-1 with a walk), and several of the players who came in as subs later had nice nights too. Notably, Hamilton was 2-for-2 with a double and two RBI, Vaughn (off the bench) was 2-for-2 with a solo homer, and Rengifo, Frelick, Mitchell, Turang, and Contreras all had extra-base hits (doubles for the first three, homers for the latter two).<\/p>\n

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Wrap them up, let them chill tomorrow night, let\u2019s get the games started.<\/p>\n

The final game before the regular season is tomorrow at 4:10 p.m., again at American Family Field. Brandon Sproat will get a chance to make his last warm-up before his Brewers debut comes on Sunday. The Reds have not announced a starter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Box Score 29 down, one to go for the Brewers\u2019 spring season. The Milwaukee bullpen combined for a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2131,1110,13343,1749,28235,5,6303,136,3800,1301,50,17761,1517,13079,1177,92,463,3875,4364,7881,2180,843,59,4280,4,312,8167,1094,1868,396,3801],"class_list":["post-640065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-aaron-ashby","tag-abner-uribe","tag-american-family-field","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-angel-zerpa","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-sproat","tag-brewers","tag-brice-turang","tag-christian-yelich","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-david-hamilton","tag-dl-hall","tag-easton-mcgee","tag-elly-de-la-cruz","tag-eugenio-suarez","tag-garrett-mitchell","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jake-bauers","tag-jared-koenig","tag-luis-rengifo","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-sal-frelick","tag-tj-friedl","tag-trevor-megill","tag-tyler-stephenson","tag-white-sox","tag-william-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}