The Brewers had the first punch Sunday, but the Rangers had the cleaner, harder one the rest of the way.
Milwaukee jumped out to an early 2-0 lead and still couldn’t turn that into a sweep, falling 7-4 in the series finale as Dustin May battled his command and the offense ran out of answers. The loss still left the Brewers with two wins in the three-game set and the best record in baseball, but this one slipped away in the middle innings.
The Brewers’ opening rally came fast against Kumar Rocker. Brice Turang worked an eight-pitch walk after a batter pitch clock violation, Garrett Mitchell followed with a single into left, and Jake Bauers drove in Turang with a hard ground ball into right field.
Jackson Chourio then added an RBI single to left to bring home Mitchell. Milwaukee had runners on first and second with nobody out and had already put two on the board.
Rocker escaped with only those two runs, but not before spending 35 pitches just to get out of the first inning. He finished with seven strikeouts, four walks and only three innings completed, though the Brewers never added another run against him after that opening burst.
The Rangers answered quickly. In the second, May gave up back-to-back doubles, including a ground-rule double from Elias Díaz, to trim the lead to one. Then in the third, Ezequiel Duran tied it with a solo homer.
May kept the game level into the fifth, but that’s where things got away from him. He walked Corey Seager on five pitches, then Wyatt Langford on seven, and Pat Murphy stayed with him to face Duran.
The gamble didn’t pay off. May left a sweeper up, and Duran crushed it for another ground-rule double, scoring both runners and putting Texas ahead 4-2 for good.
The Rangers kept building from there. Joc Pederson homered off Grant Anderson in the sixth, and Texas added two more runs on a pair of run-scoring singles off Bryse Wilson in the seventh.
Milwaukee got a brief jolt in the bottom of the seventh when Gary Sánchez launched his 200th career home run, but that was the last damage the Brewers could do. Texas relievers Alexander, Adam Macko, Jordan Montgomery, Jakob Junis and closer Jacob Latz combined to allow just three hits the rest of the way.
The Brewers now head to Chicago for a four-game series against the Cubs. Kyle Harrison is set to start Monday’s opener, while the Cubs have not announced a starter.
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