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Rockies slam Brewers
DENVER -- Brad Hawpe hit a grand slam, Ian Stewart launched a solo homer into the third deck and Greg Reynolds got his first major league win in the Colorado Rockies' 7-2 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Saturday night.
Reynolds (1-3) baffled hitters all evening, limiting Milwaukee to two runs and four hits over six innings. Reynolds, the second overall pick in the 2006 draft, had his sinker working, breaking four Brewer bats as he picked up his first win in six starts.
Colorado has now won four in a row, matching the team's longest streak of the season.
Hawpe's grand slam in the first inning was the second of his career, the other coming on June 16 of last season against Tampa Bay.
He came off the disabled list Friday and hit a two-run homer in the eighth to help the Rockies rally for a 6-4 win. Hawpe had been out for the last two weeks with a strained right hamstring.
Hawpe finished 2-for-3 with an intentional walk.
Stewart turned in a nifty play at second to save a run in the fifth. With J.J. Hardy on third and two outs, Craig Counsell hit a slow roller that Stewart charged and barehanded, tossing it to Todd Helton at first to nip Counsell.
Stewart then came up in the bottom of the inning and crushed a homer into the third deck in right field, just the 28th time the third tier has been reached at Coors Field. It was Stewart's first homer of the season.
Brewers manager Ned Yost briefly argued with home plate umpire Dana DeMuth over Stewart's homer - which appeared to wrap around the foul pole - before retreating back to the dugout.
Dave Bush (2-6) lasted just four innings, his shortest start of the year. He gave up five hits and five runs before being pulled for a pinch hitter.
Russell Branyan just missed hitting a homer for a fifth straight game, drilling a liner off the left-field wall in the second. Branyan thought it was out, going into a trot out of the batter's box. He wound up with a long RBI single.
Jason Kendall also had an RBI single in the inning.
Bush got the first two outs in the first inning before Ryan Spilborghs stuck out his bat and blooped a double that landed just over Prince Fielder's head and on the right field line. Helton and Garrett Atkins drew walks, paving the way for Hawpe's grand slam.
Chris Iannetta followed Hawpe's blast with a solo shot on the next pitch, the first time this season the Rockies have hit back-to-back homers.
Associated Press
Colorado's Brad Hawpe hits a grand slam in the first inning Saturday against the Brewers.
