Chase Anderson made his debut Wednesday as a Milwaukee Brewer starter against the Colorado Rockies at Miller Park.

He finished on the 10-day wounded list, and never pitched a field in the match.

The reliever Jacob Barnes took the place of Anderson and launched a round. Donnie Hart followed with three others. Then Corbin Burnes – who was not even officially a member of the 25-player roster when Anderson started warming up – took part in the action.

It was a night that was easily dubbed the strangest of the season for the Brewers, who lost 11-4.

About 10 minutes before the match, it was announced that Anderson had a cut to the middle finger of his right hand during his warm-up and that Barnes would start in his place.

Perhaps predictably, the first run did not go well for Barnes, who threw 38 shots after taking the ball unexpectedly. He walked three and took out three, with a major mistake by Nolan Arenado at three points.

Meanwhile, the Brewers announced that Anderson had already been placed on the 10-day wounded list and replaced by Burnes, recalled from the AAA class of San Antonio.

To add to the strangeness, Burnes was in uniform and had pitched the pen at one point in the opening round before manager Craig Counsell replaced Barnes by Hart to start the second.

THE SCORE OF THE BOX: Rockies 11, Brewers 4

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How could Burnes have traveled from Des Moines, Iowa (where San Antonio was playing) to Wisconsin in 10 minutes?

Baseball President David Stearns provided clarification.

In the end, Anderson had opened a light bulb and a callus during his warm-up in the enclosure. Burnes had already arrived at the stadium in anticipation of his activation, but he was not yet in uniform when it became apparent that Anderson could not launch.

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Anderson's fingers needed a lot of time to heal, so the Brewers asked for and obtained approval from the Major League Baseball to place it immediately on the IL and activate Burnes.

Hart threw three scoreless innings, and the Brewers found themselves in less than one Rocky Mountain run early in the first period when Mike Moustakas scored a three-point return ahead of Antonio Senzatela.

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Burnes finally took part in the match in fifth place – after three days of rest – and withdrew the camp in order. Ben Gamel, a two-run single and two points, gave him a 4-3 lead with which he can work.

It did not last long, Colorado scored three goals against Burnes in sixth to take a 6-4 lead.

The good news for Burnes (0-3) is that none of his passes came through the circuit, the main reason why he was opted for San Antonio on April 19th, having allowed eleven innings out of 17 on four starts .

The bad news was that his lack of command had led to two marches and a wild pitch. Colorado also had three hits in the sixth, with Charlie Blackmon's RBI double in doubles.

Matt Albers replaced Burnes, whose deserved point average rose to 10.98 after two innings. The Rockies then opened the way with an eighth of four innings against Jay Jackson.

Story scored a three-run homer in the eighth and Arenado added a solo shot against Jackson in the ninth.

Milwaukee needed six pitchers in all to cover all nine innings, leaving the team in a difficult position ahead of the morning series final on Thursday.

Keys to take away

WILSON, PETRICKA JOIN THE MISSIONS: The Brewers announced Wednesday that right-handers Alex Wilson and Jake Petricka had obtained the necessary clearance to move to the AAA San Antonio category. Both have been appointed for a mission in recent days, with Milwaukee needing to clear a spot in the 40-man roster for Gio Gonzalez and Jackson.

"They would like to be in the big leagues, I know," said manager Craig Counsell. "But I think it's really deep, I really think we can have Alex Wilson on the track, he's been a damn good thrower in the big leagues." Jake did a great job with sleeves for us.

"The two candidates will be the following ones."

TO DO WORK: With Christian Yelich in the Colorado Series and Ryan Braun in free fall, Gamel made his third consecutive start and fifth place in seven games. Gamel hit .273 with one circuit and four RBIs while alternating seamlessly between the three field positions.

"Ben is playing really well on both sides of the ball," Counsell said. "He played an excellent defense and made very good games and shots, a lot of distance in the field, doing exactly what we hoped for, that's what I would say: playing the three positions of field, complete two right … hit the fields, left handed bat bat.

"Really help in a lot of places, and that's a good sign."

DEEP CUTTINGS: The Brewers have dominated 17 of their home games, the third-longest series in the history of the major leagues behind the Toronto Blue Jays (21 in 2000) and the Oakland A's (18 in 2002). It's also the fourth-longest series of every month in franchise history. Milwaukee scored 18 straight games from June 5 to July 16, 1996 to set the record.

YELICH, DAVIES HONORED: For the fourth time in a row since last season, Yelich was named the Brewers' player of the month after beating .33 with 14 home runs and 34 RBIs in March / April. Right-handed Zach Davies was named pitcher of the month after scoring 3-0 with a 1.38 ERA in six starts.

RECORD

This year: 17-15

Last year: 19-13

PRESENCE

Wednesday: 28,780

This year: 573,794 (average 33,753)

Last year: 565,257 (average 33,250)

To come up

Thursday: Brewers vs. Rockies, 12:10 RHP Freddy Peralta of Milwaukee (1-0, 7.13) versus Jon Gray of Colorado (2-3, 278). Television: FS Wisconsin. Radio: AM-620.