MILWAUKEE (AP) — Shaun Marcum won his sixth straight decision with eight effective innings and Jonathan Lucroy homered, lifting the Milwaukee Brewers to a 3-2 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.
Milwaukee has won nine of 12 overall and has the NL’s best winning percentage at home at .714 (15-6) after John Axford survived an adventure in the ninth for his 11th save.
Marcum (6-1) allowed his only run on a two-out homer to Carlos Gonzalez in the first and is 6-0 in his last nine starts with a 2.10 ERA since losing his first outing at Cincinnati.
Milwaukee scored twice in the bottom of the first and Lucroy homered off Clayton Mortensen (1-1) in the fifth. The Rockies have lost 11 of 16 and didn’t have Todd Helton for a third straight game because of back spasms.
