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The Brewers return home to Denver to face the first place Phoenix Speed Devils for the first time this season in a 3-game series.

Young starter Steve Green, the Brewers top prospect who entered the season rated as the 7th best prospect in the WPK, showed why he is so highly thought of in the first game of the series. Green worked 8 scoreless innings, giving up just 2 hits while striking out 5 and walking 3 as the Brewers won 5-1. Green improves to 1-1 with a 2.49 ERA. Bobby Erbakan, who started the season on the DL with a strained back, hits a pair of doubles in his second game back and Jamison Bash (.333/.429/.717) continues his hot start with his new team and hits 2 HR's to tie Antonio Puente with the team best 6 in the early going.

Game 2 is a back-and-forth affair which the Brewers drop in 10 innings, 8-7. Abel Pennington continues his tough start to the season, giving up 5 runs on 6 hits in 6 1/3rd innings pitched and now has an ERA of 6.39. Ryan Rodgers (.319/.388/.403) hits his 2nd HR of the year and goes 3 for 5 in the loss and Andrew Kennedy (.288/.300/.441) also goes 3 for 5 with a HR, his 3rd of the season as he once again shows some surprising power. Kennedy also hits a big 2-out single in the bottom of the 10th that puts the Brewers within 1 run of once again tying the game, but with the bases loaded, Tanner Yurek (.143/.246/.232) strikes out swinging to end the game.

But the Brewers bounce back well in the rubber match to take the series behind the strong pitching of Cheol-han Lee. Lee gets his first shutout of the 1971 season, giving up just 4 hits in his 9 innings pitched while striking out 8 and walking 4. Lee improves to 2-2 with a 3.29 ERA. Bobby Erbakan again sparks the offense with a 3 for 5 game in the lead-off slot, including hitting a big 2-out, 2-run triple in the 2nd inning.