The Brewers didn't generate enough offense against the Pirates and fell, 5-4. Chad Patrick also set a career-high for strikeouts but allowed 4 runs.

Chad Patrick gets the start for the Brewers against Pirates prospect Braxton Ashcraft. There's been plenty of gas for Chad Patrick but also a few loud swings. With a strikeout looking of Joey Bart to open the fourth,

Yelich is poised to do damage as he profiles extremely well against Ashcraft’s pitch mix, where he throws four different pitches at least 18% of the time. Isolating those four, Yelich is hitting .415 with a .268 ISO and 57% hard-hit rate over the last month.

Milwaukee has won four straight games and seven of the past nine games, including yesterday’s 9-8 thriller over Minnesota. The Brewers swept the Twins by scoring 35 runs over three games to the Twins’ 14. The Brewers and Pirates split the first series of the season, 2-2 in Pittsburgh.