Saturday’s Rockies game

Brewers 6, Rockies 5

Wade Davis, Colorado’s new $52 million closer, sprinted so quickly through his Rockies debut Saturday he hardly broke a sweat at Salt River Fields. So he grabbed a pair of red sneakers from his locker and went to work out afterward. In one inning against Milwaukee, Davis threw just seven total pitches to Christian Yelich, Hernan Perez and Travis Shaw. Each was a strike in a three-up, three-down appearance.

“I felt good. I felt really good,” Davis said. “Hopefully in a couple outings I’m ready to compete and the season hits.” The right-hander said his goal in an initial spring appearance was to test his physical limits and throw strikes. He accomplished the latter. But he was not upset by his lack of time on the mound. “Not really, no. That was good,” Davis said. “Just keep getting better with my stuff and make sure everything is sharp.”

On the mound

Left-hander Jake Mcgee also made his spring debut, throwing 20 pitches in a scoreless inning. But he carried a different outlook than Davis.

“Sometimes you throw less than 10 pitches and it feels like you didn’t really do anything,” Mcgee said. He gave up a hit and a walk but no other damage in the fourth.

Starter Kyle Freeland gave up three runs on five hits over three innings, the damage coming from a solo homer by Eric Thames to lead off the second inning and consecutive doubles from Keon Broxton and Yelich to open the third. “I need to continue working on getting my fastball down in the zone,” Freeland said. “I’m around the zone, filling the zone. It’s just not consistent in the bottom of the zone, where I want to live.”

Freeland seems likely for a rotation spot to open the season, with competition coming from Jeff Hoffman, Antonio Senzatela and German Marquez.

At the plate

Outfielder David Dahl homered in a second consecutive game, sending a fastball from right-hander Zach Davies to the center-field backdrop.

Mcmahon homered too, his first of the spring, to right field. The Brewers were spotting him off-speed pitches down in the zone that he flailed at, at first. But “I finally got down on one,” he said. “It was a good feeling.”