Brewers bats were quiet in Tuesday’s 2-0 loss at Kansas City.
Five Royals pitchers held Milwaukee to just three singles and wasted a good pitching effort by Brandon Woodruff.
Second baseman Whit Merrifield was safe on a bang-bang play at the plate to break a scoreless tie in the bottom of the eighth, then the winners added another run.
Just off the injured list, Christian Yelich went oh-for-four in a defeat that dropped his team into third place in the National League Central Division.
Kansas City starter Kris Bubic held the Brewers to a single hit in his six innings.
Corbin Burnes starts the second and final game in the series at Kauffman Stadium tonight (May 19th). Coverage will begin on 107.9 FM WOMT and WOMTRadio.com starting at 6:35 PM.