Chad Patrick probably wasn’t going to keep up his pace this season—through his first 13 career appearances, he hadn’t given up more than three earned runs in a single outing. That streak was bound to end, and it did today. Unluckily for Patrick, that happened on a day in which the Brewer offense looked mostly helpless against Atlanta starter Spencer Schwellenbach, who did a rare thing: he threw a complete game.
It was the Brewers defense that got this game started with a bang. Atlanta’s first batter, Ronald Acuña Jr., was retired on a fly ball in foul territory on a beautiful sliding catch made by Sal Frelick, who slid right into the padded right field wall.