Player of the gameBrandon SproatMIL6.0ip 1h 0er 10k
Veteran Brandon Woodruff set the standard in the series opener. All rookie Brandon Sproat had to do on Tuesday was play follow the leader. “That’s all the scouting report was: Go do what ‘Woo’ did,” Sproat said. Twenty four hours apart, the two right-handers delivered nearly identical performances at Great American Ball Park: Six scoreless innings, one hit, no walks, 10 strikeouts and no-hit bids into the sixth inning of back-to-back victories over the Reds, including Tuesday’s 2-0 Brewers win behind Sproat’s best start of his budding career. The 25-year-old’s 10 strikeouts set a career high, and Sproat might have kept going beyond his 80 pitches if not for some minor calf tightness. His performance followed a successful return from the injured list for Woodruff, who retired the Reds’ first 16 hitters on Monday night before yielding a single with one out in the sixth. According to Elias, Woodruff and Sproat are only the second Brewers duo to go six-plus scoreless innings allowing one or no hits with 10-plus strikeouts in back-to-back team games. The first was Corbin Burnes and Woodruff on Sept. 9 and 11, 2020, against the Tigers and Cubs.
