“Kind of felt like he was finding his groove offensively. “It’s an unfortunate thing,” Shelton said of Newman, who got hurt during the Tuesday game. He will be sidelined for three to five weeks, according to team director of sports medicine Todd Tomczyk. The Pirates will be without shortstop Kevin Newman, who went on the 10-day injured list Wednesday because of a groin strain. “We got all the situations we wanted and just didn’t win the game.”įor Pittsburgh, it was a familiar outcome against the Brewers with a chance Thursday to salvage one win in the series. “It worked,” Pirates manager Derek Shelton said. That went well as the two combined for six one-hit, scoreless innings.
Pittsburgh switched tactics and made a game-day change Wednesday, going with Dillon Peters as an opener, with originally scheduled starter Bryse Wilson following. “It was one of those days you had to grind it out, figure out a way to win, and we did it,” second baseman Kolten Wong - who had the first of Milwaukee’s four hits Wednesday, plus a walk and a sterling play to start a double play - told Bally Sports Wisconsin.
The margin in three games last week in Milwaukee was a combined 15-5, meaning the Brewers were averaging 6.75 runs against Pittsburgh before Wednesday’s relative squeaker.ĭifferent day, different formula, same outcome against the Pirates.
