MILWAUKEE _ Chase Anderson remains on a roll.
The right-hander tossed 7 2/3 scoreless innings Tuesday night to extend his streak to 21 2/3 and lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-2 victory over the San Francisco Giants at Miller Park.
Helped by a defense that turned four double plays, Anderson (5-1) recorded his sixth quality start in his 12th turn to equal his total for all of 2016 (30 starts).
Anderson allowed just six hits _ all singles _ and a walk while striking out four in a 110-pitch outing.
The Brewers got all the offense they needed in the second inning, batting around against Giants starter Matt Cain.
Hernan Perez opened with a homer to left to give Milwaukee the lead for a 12th consecutive game. After Jett Bandy and Orlando Arcia followed with singles, Eric Sogard dropped a perfectly placed two-out double between three fielders in short left to make it 3-0.
A Domingo Santana single to left drove in Sogard to make it 4-0. Eric Thames walked and Jesus Aguilar singled to load the bases, but Perez popped out to end the inning.
It was the eighth time this season the Brewers batted around in an inning, and the first time since May 21 in Chicago.
Anderson helped his own cause in the third, driving in Keon Broxton with a two-out double off the wall in left to up Milwaukee's lead to 5-0. It was Anderson's fourth hit of the season and his first RBI.
Three of the four double plays came in the opening four innings, helping Anderson face the minimum over that span.
He worked around an Aguilar error in the fifth, got Brandon Belt to ground out with two out and two on in the sixth and then induced a 5-4-3 double-play grounder from Brandon Crawford to erase a leadoff single by Buster Posey in the seventh.
Anderson gave up a one-out single to Austin Slater in the eighth, then after Thames made a nice sliding catch in foul territory to retire pinch-hitter Aaron Hill, Anderson was pulled for Carlos Torres.
Anderson exited to a standing ovation from the crowd of 21,214 and with a career-best scoreless innings streak under his belt.
Torres needed just one pitch to finish the inning but ran into major problems in the ninth, surrendering three straight singles and then committing a throwing error on a surefire double-play ball from Crawford.
With the shutout ruined, the Giants within 5-2 and the tying run at the plate in the form of Hunter Pence, manager Craig Counsell was forced to call on closer Corey Knebel.
Knebel opened by fanning Pence, giving him at least one strikeout in all 30 of his appearances this season _ the second-longest streak by a reliever to open a season since 1900 _ and then retired the next two hitters to notch his sixth save.
