MILWAUKEE -- Kolten Wong and Tyrone Taylor each powered a pair of home runs, but Milwaukee couldn’t muscle its way out of the hole that starter Eric Lauer left them in.

After a promising start to his season, Lauer battled some back stiffness and surrendered more earned runs (seven) than he recorded outs (six) in a 10-7 loss to the Tigers at American Family Field, snapping the Brewers’ five-game winning streak on a night they hit five home runs.

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Wong hit his third career leadoff home run and tallied his third career multihomer game -- his first since Opening Day 2019 in Milwaukee, when he was on the Cardinals. And Taylor celebrated his third promotion to the Majors this season on Tuesday with the first multihomer effort of his career. With Luis Urías’ solo shot in the bottom of the ninth, the Brewers matched a dubious club record by hitting five homers in a game they lost, something that’s happened seven times in 53 seasons as a franchise.

If you’ve been watching the Brewers for the past decade and a half, you probably remember the last one. It was a Jeff Suppan start at Minnesota in June 2007, when Twins outfielder Lew Ford lost a Prince Fielder fly ball in the Metrodome’s white roof in the ninth inning and Fielder motored all the way around the bases for one of baseball’s most memorable inside-the-park home runs in a 10-9 loss.

“It felt like basically the whole game we were fighting,” Wong said. “It was one of those tough ones. When we scored one, they came back and scored one or two. We were just constantly chasing, just a little too far behind.”

Said Tigers manager A.J. Hinch: “We needed every run we could get.”

Detroit got half of its runs on home runs. Catcher Eric Haase and second baseman Jonathan Schoop also hit a pair of homers apiece as the Tigers and Brewers combined to match a modern Major League record: Four players with multiple home runs in the same game. That’s only happened seven times since 1901. Only three times has it been two players from each team.

Milwaukee got as close as two runs in the fifth inning and again in the eighth. But it just wasn’t enough to bail out Brewers pitching. Lauer surrendered most of the damage in a six-run second inning that included two home runs, a bases-clearing double from Miguel Cabrera that followed a pair of walks, and a visit from manager Craig Counsell, pitching coach Chris Hook and a member of Milwaukee’s medical staff to make sure Lauer was physically OK. After the game it emerged that he was dealing with a tight lower back.

By day’s end, Lauer’s ERA had nearly doubled from 2.45 to 4.88. It was only because of Adrian Houser’s five innings of one-run relief -- a planned bullpen stint with a pair of team off-days on tap -- that the Brewers were able to slug their way back into the ballgame.

“Velocity-wise, that’s probably the best we’ve seen Eric all year, maybe since we’ve had him,” Counsell said. “He just didn’t put the ball where he wanted to tonight.”

Big outbursts like Tuesday’s second inning were Lauer’s undoing in 2019, when he endured six-run innings in each of his two Brewers starts and never gained a foothold in the Major Leagues.

This year, with the schedule reverting to 162 games, Milwaukee needs Lauer to eat innings, having already called him up from the Minors twice to either help cover a placement on the injured list or serve as a sixth starter during a long stretch of games. It all fits into the organization’s plan to pitch its starters, even the top trio of Brandon Woodruff, Corbin Burnes and Freddy Peralta, on at least one extra day of rest as regularly as possible.

If that plan continues, the Brewers will need Lauer. Next week, the team begins a streak of 16 games in 16 days, including 10 on the road.

“I’m really happy with the way I’m throwing, and I think I can do a lot once we clear this thing up [with the back],” Lauer said. “Hopefully it’s not something that affects where I’m at or how I’m viewed as a pitcher, because everything else feels great. It was just a bad day. A bad day where I hit a wall and couldn’t push through it.”