Gary Sanchez hit a two-run home run and Brice Turang added a two-run single as the visiting Milwaukee Brewers scored seven runs in the sixth inning to beat the Colorado Rockies 12-4 Sunday.
The win gave Milwaukee its first three-game sweep in Colorado since 2014. The Brewers also scored four times in the ninth and finished with a season-high 10 extra base hits.
Garrett Mitchell went 3-for-5 with two RBIs and two runs. Andrew Vaughn also had three hits in five trips, scoring three times and driving in one.
Shane Drohan (3-1) picked up his first win as a starter this year, giving up five hits and three runs in 6 1/3 innings. The southpaw walked one and struck out four in 83 pitches.
Rockies starter Kyle Freeman made it to the sixth inning for only the second time in his last seven starts. The southpaw gave up seven hits, three runs and a walk with two strikeouts in 89 pitches.
The wheels came off for him in the sixth, however, when the Brewers took complete control.
Trailing 3-1, the first four Brewers hit for the cycle in the inning.
William Contreras led off with a single and scored with Andrew Vaughn tripled to right field.
That chased Freeman, but things were worse for Jaden Hill (0-2).
Sanchez greeted the right-hander by hitting his first home run in two months off Hill’s first delivery to make it 4-3 Milwaukee.
Garrett Mitchell completed the cycle with a double to right. Luis Rengifo walked and Blake Perkins beat out a bunt to load the bases.
Joey Ortiz brought in Mitchell with a walk to make it 5-3. One out later, Turang made it 7-3 by grounding a two-run single to right.
That ended Hill’s nightmare. He faced seven batters, gave up four hits, two walks and five runs.
Contreras brought in the last run of the inning with a ground out to short.
The Rockies wasted little time scoring in the first when Willi Castro reached on an odd single to lead off. Turang appeared all set to make the catch on a pop-up to second, but lost the ball in the sun at the last minute.
With Castro on the move, Ezequiel Tover followed with a double to right field to score the lead-off man.
Tovar went to third on a fly out by TJ Rumfield and scored to make it 2-0 when Hunter Goodman hit a slow roller to first.
Castro went 2-for-4, while Goodman plated two runs.
–Field Level Media
