MILWAUKEE -- The Diamondbacks rebounded from an ugly loss 24 hours earlier to beat the Brewers, 6-2, on Wednesday night at American Family Field.
The win came on the heels of a 13-2 drubbing and gave them a bit of momentum as they head into Thursday afternoon's series finale.
Ildemaro Vargas extended his hitting streak to open the year to 22 games (25 dating back last year) and the Diamondbacks hit four home runs in the game.
Here are a few things to know about the game:
Nolan Arenado owns American Family Field
There's something about hitting at American Family Field that agrees with Nolan Arenado.
The Diamondbacks third baseman delivered the big blow Wednesday night -- a three-run homer that capped a four-run fourth inning and erased a 2-1 deficit, giving Arizona the lead for good.
A look at Arenado's career numbers in Milwaukee let you know that it's no surprise the veteran came up big.
"I didn't know that," Arenado said. "I enjoy the ballpark. I really don't enjoy facing their team. I mean, they've got incredible arms. It's been really tough to come here, and it's hard to win here. It really is. And I feel like throughout my whole career coming here, especially [with] St Louis, it was just incredibly hard."
Does he see the ball really well here?
"I see pretty good here I guess," Arenado said. "I don't know. I just think I've just always liked the ballpark."
Arenado has been seeing the ball well everywhere lately, as he is slashing .404/.453/.745 over his last 14 games.
The decision to take out Eduardo Rodriguez wasn't easy
Like every manager these days, Diamondbacks skipper Torey Lovullo looks at a lot of numbers before making his decisions, but within all that data there is also room for a little feel and that's what happened when Lovullo decided to take out Eduardo Rodriguez.
The Arizona lefty had battled hard through 4 2/3 innings. He had allowed five hits over that time and while the Brewers could only tag him for two runs, there was a lot of traffic on the bases.
So when Rodriguez walked Gary Sánchez with two outs in the fifth, the manager headed out to the mound.
Rodriguez asked Lovullo to let him face one more batter, but Lovullo had made up his mind.
"I didn't want to take E-Rod out of the game in the fifth inning, one out away from a win, but I have to make tough decisions and I felt like it was time to turn over the bullpen," Lovullo said.
Rodriguez had thrown just 87 pitches to that point, so Lovullo was asked what led him to make the move, and part of the decision was that the Diamondbacks led just 4-2 at that point.
"The velocity dipped a little," Lovullo said. "He had four walks and I know he doesn't walk a lot of batters. If we had a little bit more of a cushion, it was a different story. So was it a gut feeling? Yeah, it's a lot of conversation between me and [the coaching staff], it's direct matchups, it's splits. A lot of things go into that decision, but then my eyes tell me a story. E-Rod was grinding a little bit.”
The move worked out because the bullpen pitched well
Reliever Andrew Hoffmann, who had been a big piece of the bullpen in the early part of the season, allowed eight runs in just one-third of an inning Tuesday.
Wednesday, though, the bullpen was lights out.
Kevin Ginkel replaced Rodriguez and after allowing a single, he shut the Brewers down for 1 1/3 innings.
Juan Morillo, Taylor Clarke and Paul Sewald then each pitched hitless innings to close out the game.
"They did a great job," Arenado said. "When we can give them a lead or something to work with, I feel like they always do a good job. Tonight they were tremendous and we needed it."