![]() But it gave everybody a little bit of breathing room." It’s a three run home run and that’s a big deal. "Ureña was really good the first three innings. "We did a nice job on offense today," Counsell said. They had averaged just 3.4 runs per game in that span and only 3.0 per game during regulation. The eight runs were the most in a game for the Brewers since July 1. Renfroe scored on a wild pitch, then Christian Yelich made the lead 8-1 with a single up the middle for his first RBI hit since July 2, a span of 40 at-bats. Willy Adames singled to open the inning, Rowdy reached on an error and Kolten Wong singled to drive in a run and chase Ureña with one out.įacing Chacín, the Brewers top starter in 2018, Renfroe loaded the bases with an infield single for Victor Caratini, who drove in two with a blue-darter to right for a double off to plate two more. Coming into tonight, it's 90 and humid so I'll take warm days any day."Īfter Woodruff completed his night with a double play on pitch number 100, the Brewers bats chased Ureña in the bottom half of the sixth, spinning the wheels on the hitting merry-go-round. "It's kind of a drastic change from San Francisco when it was upper-50s and wind blowing. "I didn't like it but it was good for my hands," Woodruff said. With rising temperatures helping increase blood flow to his fingers, Woodruff may have been the only one in the park not complaining about the heat on Saturday. So is the feeling in Woodruff's hands after a bout with Raynaud's syndrome that delayed his return from the IL by approximately two weeks. "He’s relatively fresh and throwing the ball really, really well. "The injury probably set us back a little bit but I think in the end, the injury is going to help Brandon be really effective the rest of the year," Counsell said. He seems to have honed in on the slight mechanical flaw that was throwing off the shape of his sinker early in the year, leading to atypical results. Since his return, Woodruff has allowed seven earned runs in 28⅔ innings, good for a 2.20 earned run average, with 39 strikeouts and nine walks. "I thought he got himself through that sixth inning and pitched and that’s how you put up zeroes." "Woody, he was just really good," Counsell said. His command was also improved from his last time out in San Francisco when he grinded through 5⅔ innings by walking five and allowing five hits. The righthander struck out eight over six frames, his fourth start out of five since returning with at least eight punchouts. "He just went out there and threw bowling balls at them the whole night and they couldn't do anything with it," Renfroe said.Īfter allowing a first-inning run on a two-out Brendan Rodgers RBI single, Woodruff buckled down and only allowed two base runners, not including an error by Luis Urias, over his final five innings. Namely, his sinker continues to bear down on right-handed hitters, allowing his four-seam fastball to play up even to an even greater level. Woodruff, over six innings of eight-strikeout, one-run ball, continued to look like the all-star version of himself since returning from the injured list on June 29. The good news for Renfroe: he doesn't have to right now. ![]() "I don't even want to talk about having to hit it." And he's got a good changeup to go with it. I've done it all and when he's good, it's electric 95-99 (mph) coming in at you and bearing down, it's tough. "I've faced him, I've played behind him, I've caught him. "When he's good, he's electric," Renfroe said of Woodruff. Renfroe wasn't the only former Bulldog singing his teammate's praise after they both shined on a muggy night that felt like it was taken right out of Mississippi. He makes it look cool when he hits them." "He's always had that type of power and you never know when he's gonna go on his run," Woodruff said. Woodruff has seen Renfroe's prodigious power – as well as his proclivity for hot streaks – ever since they were teammates at Mississippi State a decade ago. He’s going to hit homers.When you put men on base, they’re game-changers." He’s capable of that every time he steps up there. "He’s been in a position the last couple of nights where you put a man on base and those are game-changing hits. "That’s what power does for your lineup," Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. He's now up to 15 homers in just 61 games despite battling injuries in his hamstring and calf and is the only player on the team slugging over. ![]() Renfroe continues to do precisely what the Brewers acquired him to do when they traded for him over the winter: hit the ball far. ![]()
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