It\u2019s a good thing these games don\u2019t count yet. The Milwaukee Brewers struggled through a 13-4 loss to the Athletics in Cactus League play with some poor defense causing a lot of the problems.<\/p>\n
Kyle Harrison got the start and pitched in five innings. He\u2019s the first Brewers starter to get five \u201cups\u201d this spring, but was charged with six earned runs. There was a fly ball lost in the sun and his defense did let him down on a couple of occasions leaving the Brewers in a big hole early. The Athletics were able to score three runs in the 2nd and three runs in the 3rd.<\/p>\n
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After Harrison, Trevor Megill came in and allowed a solo homer to Colby Thomas. Then Carlos Rodriguez pitched two innings of one run ball in his first Cactus League action in a couple weeks. Rodriguez was with Team Nicaragua in the World Baseball Classic, who were eliminated after the pool play round. Sammy Peralta then allowed a run in his inning of work and the wheels totally fell off when Mark Manfredi entered and allowed a grand slam to Tommy \u201cTanks\u201d White without recording an out.<\/p>\n
On the offensive end, the Brewers scored a pair of runs in the 6th on a Jake Bauers RBI single and an Andrew Vaughn RBI double. Milwaukee scraped together two more runs in the 9th on a 2 RBI single by Josh Adamczewski.<\/p>\n
Cooper Pratt had a pair of singles and went 2-for-3 on the day while getting the start at second base. He\u2019s now hitting .280 on the spring. Braylon Payne had a double, which was one of just two extra-base hits the Brewers had, along with Vaughn\u2019s RBI double.<\/p>\n
The Brewers fall to 8-11 in Cactus League play. They will be back at it tomorrow against the Colorado Rockies and will have Jacob Misiorowski on the bump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s a good thing these games don\u2019t count yet. The Milwaukee Brewers struggled through a 13-4 loss to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":653837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[40747,145022,5048,277291,1283,1936,4246,117313,109456,4247,1266,277292,62,170848,7950,88064,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-653836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-carlos-rodriguez","tag-cincinnati-reds","tag-colby-thomas","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-getty-images","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-jake-bauers","tag-kyle-harrison","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-sammy-peralta","tag-sports","tag-spring-training","tag-the-athletics","tag-trevor-megill","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116224650677090567","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}