By the numbers: Archie Bradley pitches D-backs past Brewers
Jul 27, 2016, 9:38 PM | Updated: 10:12 pm
(AP Photo/Tom Lynn)
What are timely hitting and sound pitching? Two elements the Arizona Diamondbacks haven’t combined within enough games this season.
That wasn’t the case Wednesday against the Milwaukee Brewers. Yasmany Tomas smacked two multi-run home runs and starting pitcher Archie Bradley and reliever Randall Delgado never slipped into a spiral as Arizona won on the road, 8-1.
The Diamondbacks also benefitted from a bevy of early Milwaukee errors and scored five first-inning runs that set Bradley up with a nice cushion.
Seven was a telling number for Bradley against the Brewers.
The right-hander went seven innings, allowing four hits and an earned run to go with six strikeouts and three walks.
He used his curveball to set up his fastball all evening long. Seven of Bradley’s 21 outs came off fastballs that immediately followed a curveball, and his first four of six total strikeouts were fastballs that came after curves. His final two strikeouts were curveballs that followed fastballs as he kept the Brewers guessing.
Here is more context to the Diamondbacks’ win, by the numbers.
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Milwaukee managed to go 0-for-4 with runners in scoring position. Bradley allowed leadoff doubles in the first and the last innings he pitched. He got out of the first frame cleanly, but the Brewers tagged the only earned run of Bradley’s night with a sac-fly in the seventh.
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Arizona is 19-1 when it’s allowed three or fewer runs in a road game this season.
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The Diamondbacks have scored at least a run during the first inning in eight of their last nine games and is batting .452 in those eighth. Arizona closed the first frame with five runs Wednesday.
4.17
Bradley has completed quality starts — defined by at least six full innings having allowed three or fewer earned runs — in five of his last eight games. His ERA has shrunk from 5.66 on June 14 to 4.17 following the Wednesday win.
5, Part I
Yasmany Tomas had five RBI courtesy of two home runs on the night. That gave him five games — all this year and all on the road — of multi-homer outings. He’s now tied with former D-backs slugger Mark Trumbo of the Orioles for the most multi-home run games so far in 2016.
5, Part II
The Brewers committed five errors on the night, tied (four times) for the most by any Diamondbacks opponent. Arizona last saw an opponent make five miscues in May of 2005. Three of Milwaukee’s errors happened within the first three Arizona batters of the game and two occurred on the same play.
9
Jean Segura improved his hitting streak to nine games with a three-hit outing against his former club on Wednesday.