Brewers’ pitcher Nelson slows down Giants

MILWAUKEE (AP) – At first glance, Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Jimmy Nelson had a relatively pedestrian start against the San Francisco Giants. After all, he struck out a combined 21 hitters without a walk over his previous two games.

What might make his sixinning outing against San Francisco more impressive is that he won without having lights-out stuff.

Nelson (4-3) struck out six and allowed seven hits along with his first walk since May 23 in Milwaukee’s 6-3 victory Wednesday night over the Giants. He was sharp enough – outside of a three-run third inning – to earn his second win in three starts.

“He did a nice job, had to battle through a little bit more,” Brewers manager Craig Counsell said.

Jesus Aguilar went 2 for 4 and drove in the go-ahead run with a two-out double in the fifth to help the Brewers pull away. He turned quickly on a 1-2 fastball away from Ty Blach (4-3) for a two-out double to right field that scored Domingo Santana from first to snap a 3-all tie.

Milwaukee added another run in the sixth off Blach. Relief pitcher George Kontos didn’t help, allowing a solo homer to Jonathan Villar in the seventh that gave the Brewers a threerun lead.

“Those tack-on runs hurt us there,” Giants manager Bruce Bochy said.

The Brewers’ hitters adjusted at the plate against Blach, who allowed nine hits and five runs over six innings to end his fourgame winning streak.

“After the first time through we saw that (Blach) was throwing a lot of off-speed and a lot of changeups, and so we were just trying to make adjustments to go up the middle and the other way,” Aguilar said.