MILWAUKEE -- For the second straight day, Milwaukee's starting pitcher felt a hamstring injury pop up during the game.
While Marco Estrada felt his left hamstring strain on a pitch, Brewers right-hander Kyle Lohse felt his left hamstring grab while running the bases in the third inning. Lohse stayed in the game and pitched three more innings, but the hamstring played into Brewers manager Ron Roenicke's decision to remove him after just 95 pitches.
Lohse staying in the game for another three innings gave Milwaukee's over-worked bullpen a chance in a game that the Brewers eventually won 4-3 in 10 innings on Yuniesky Betancourt's walk-off double.
On first base with two outs in the third inning, Lohse tried to beat the throw to second base in order to get Brewers right fielder Norichika Aoki an infield single.
"I felt my left 'hammy' grab," Lohse said. "I didn't have time to wrap it for the fourth inning, but I pitched the last two pretty well-wrapped up, just trying to get through it. It is what it is.
"I knew it was going to hurt. After Marco going out yesterday taxed the bullpen, I couldn't leave the bullpen to go six. I had to try and pitch through it."
Lohse worked out of a jam in the third inning and worked a perfect fourth inning. Athletics left fielder Yoenis Cespedes got him for a solo home run to lead off the sixth inning, Cespedes' second home run of the game.
The first home run was a two-run blast that was measured at 427 feet, while the blast in the sixth inning traveled an estimated 431 feet. Lohse allowed just those three earned runs in six innings for his fourth quality start of the season and his first since April 28.
"Same thing," Lohse said. "I went out there trying to get ahead of Cespedes and he put a good swing on one, and I fell behind the next time and left a slider back out there. Other than that, I was just doing what I could to keep us in the game."
Brewers manager Ron Roenicke thought about pinch hitting for Lohse in the fifth inning, but decided to let him hit after Milwaukee's threat fizzled and Lohse came to the plate with two outs and just one runner in scoring positon.
While it appears unlikely Estrada will make his next start, Lohse is confident he will be able to pitch Sunday against Philadelphia despite the hamstring issue.
"You are always going to have something," Lohse said. "It should be good. I will get it treated and it should be good to go."
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