Brice Turang and Jake Bauers fueled a power surge as Shane Drohan’s dominant start pushed the Milwaukee Brewers closer to the league's best record.
The Milwaukee Brewers improved to 68-41 as they took care of business against the Los Angeles Angels, 6-2.
Shane Drohan gave up two runs in the fifth inning but thankfully, by that point, the Brewers already had built up a 6-0 lead.
Brice Turang and Jake Bauers both hit homers in a game that saw rookie sensation Cooper Pratt drive in the other run.
Grant Anderson, Abner Uribe, and Trevor Megill combined for a trio of strikeouts as neither reliever allowed a hit in the final three innings of work.
Even though the Brewers were just 2-for-17 with runners in scoring position and left 11 on base, they still cruised to victory and are half a game back from having the best record in all of baseball.
Home run leaders do their thing
Bauers and Turang seem to feed off one another as each hit home runs in the fifth inning. These two still lead the way among the home run leaders, with Bauers hitting his 19th of the year while Turang went yard for the 16th time.
Jackson Chourio and William Contreras remain as the only other players with double-digit homers this season, so it's not hard to see why adding a power bat could be a massive addition for the Brewers at the trade deadline.
Pratt stays hot
The Brewers drew eight walks in this game, and Pratt was responsible for 25% of those. Fellow rookie Luis Lara was 0-for-4 with a walk, and David Hamilton had a rough night in the eight spot as he went 0-for-5. Pratt, who fell to ninth in the lineup (for whatever reason), made sure that manager Pat Murphy regrets that decision.
Pratt went 1-for-2 with a pair of walks on the night. He was the only Brewers batter to have only four at-bats, but he made the most of them with an RBI, and he later touched home himself.
Drohan is as consistent as it gets
For his fifth straight start, the 27-year-old was able to go six innings. Milwaukee basically sacrificed their game on Wednesday, July 29, in order to give him an extra day of rest.
That decision absolutely paid off as Drohan threw six innings and allowed just two earned runs on four hits. Those two runs came from a Denzer Guzman fifth-inning homer, but other than that he was basically flawless.
Add in the fact that he struck out seven batters, and he's been on a heater, and this is exactly what the Brewers needed to see out of the lefty.
