D-BACKS

Verlander and Max Scherzer in his previous three starts; Arizona won two of those games.

“I don’t think anything was really working for him today,” Lovullo said.

Woodruff, in the rotation because of the rash of injuries to Brewers starters and coming off a rough start at Colorado, struck out six and walked four.

Shaw and Santana hit two-out drives in the first as Milwaukee took a 3-0 lead, but Descalso homered in the bottom half.

Yelich had a two-run homer in the second, and Santana’s leadoff shot in the fourth put the Brewers ahead 6-2.

Jesus Aguilar singled and Shaw doubled to chase

Koch. Santana had an RBI groundout against T.J. McFarland, and Jonathan Villar hit a run-scoring double.

Arizona, meanwhile, has scored three or fewer runs in 11 of its last 14 games, including two runs in each of the games against the Brewers.

“Obviously a frustrating homestand but we’ve got to put it behind us,” Lovullo said. “I know that these guys are battletested. They fight. They fight together. This is one of those situations, one of those parts of the season, where things aren’t clicking. Things are not moving in the direction we want them to every single moment, and we’ve just got to keep plowing away. It’s just baseball. That’s how it goes.”