DENVER --
Peralta pitched five innings and allowed just one run, a homer in the bottom of the third to Rockies center fielder Brenton Doyle. It was one of just three hits Peralta allowed, alongside three walks and six strikeouts.
“Third straight outing where he just went after the hitters,” manager Pat Murphy said of Peralta. “\\[He was\\] a little bit more tired than normal. He said after five that ‘I'm good.’ He put a lot into it that, but he kept attacking.”\n\nPeralta touched 98 on the radar gun, bringing some ninth-inning mentality to his start and recording four of his strikeouts with high heat.\n\n“He's got to pitch like a closer from inning one to how many innings he gives us,” Murphy said. “When he does that, he just lets it go. That heater up was really effective tonight.”
The right-hander is now 2-0 in four games (three starts) at Coors Field with a 1.59 ERA (17 innings, three earned runs). The first of those games was his big-league debut in 2018, when he pitched 5.2 scoreless innings and struck out 13, a franchise record for a first-time starter.\n\n“Hopefully that happens for the rest of my career,” Peralta said. “I’m never going to forget what happened in my first game. I don't really try to do the same thing on the mound. It just happened.”\n\nMurphy attributed Peralta’s prowess in the notorious hitter’s park to having both “a knack for pitching” and a good memory, and Peralta drew on his experience when approaching Coors Field.\n\n“Because of the altitude, I knew that my breaking ball probably wasn't going to be great,” Peralta said. “I had it ready just in case, but my plan was to use the fastball today.”
The Brewers paired an offensive outburst with Peralta’s strong showing, erupting for four runs on six hits while batting around in the third inning.\n\nIsaac Collins and Joey Ortiz -- hitting in the seven and eight holes -- led off the inning with a pair of singles to center and
“I'm getting older,” Turang, 25, said of his new-found power swing. “That's just how it is. I'm starting to get the ‘man strength.’ I've always known I've had it. Even when I was in high school, I had it. It was just kind of doing it the right way and not forcing it. All that stuff comes from working out in the gym, getting older, getting stronger, stuff like that.”\n\n