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"&lt;p&gt;\n&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;MILWAUKEE (AP)  No Ryan Braun in the lineup for the Brewers. No Jonathan Lucroy or Aramis Ramirez, either.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;With ace Stephen Strasburg on the hill a day after a deflating, 16-inning loss to the Washington Nationals, conditions were ripe Wednesday for Milwaukee to have a letdown.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;But just the opposite happened. Scooter Gennett had a grand slam and five RBIs, and Khris Davis added a solo shot in one of the worst outings of Strasburg's career for a 9-2 victory.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;''That's why I tell you guys I can't figure it out. You don't know what's going to happen,'' manager Ron Roenicke said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;It could have just as easily gone the other way for Milwaukee with Marco Estrada (7-4) on the mound. He had given up a major league-worst 24 homers this year.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Instead, Estrada easily outshined Strasburg and gave up just two hits in pitching effectively into the seventh. He allowed four walks but didn't give up a homer for only the second time this season.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Estrada's only other outing without a homer was during a 6-1 loss to St. Louis on April 15. On Wednesday, fans showered him with a standing ovation after he got lifted in the seventh.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;''The way the game was going, I'm sure everyone was really excited about it - but to get some cheers in that game, it made me feel really good,'' Estrada said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strasburg (6-6) was tagged for eight hits and seven runs in 4 2-3 innings. It matched a career-worst outing for Strasburg, who also allowed seven earned runs in a two-inning start on July 12, 2013, in an 8-3 loss to Miami.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Braun, Lucroy and Ramirez got the day off after Tuesday night's marathon contest and yet the Brewers still pounced on Strasburg. Gennett turned on a 2-1 fastball for his first career grand slam and fifth homer of the season that landed on the concourse above right-center field.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;''I always try to be on time for the fastball. He got me my first at-bat pretty much on the same pitch, and I was able to make the adjustment,'' Gennett said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Davis opened the bottom of the fourth with a no doubt-about-it shot above the ''Goodwill'' sign in left-center for his team-high 14th homer to make it 5-2. Davis swung at a first-pitch fastball.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Strasburg said he was having issues with his mechanics that was causing hitters ''to see the ball a lot better. ... Still trying to figure that out. It just doesn't feel the same, it doesn't look the same.''&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Manager Matt Williams said Strasburg's changeup was off. Without that pitch to throw hitters off, the aggressive Brewers could sit on fastballs.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;''If you get behind, you can get in trouble,'' Williams said.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Davis finished with three RBIs in a game in which nearly everything went right for Milwaukee. Carlos Gomez, who finished 3 for 4, could only smile at first after his slow roller down the third-base line stayed fair in the sixth and allowed Gennett to score from third for a seven-run lead.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The Brewers' bats broke out after scoring just two runs in 25 innings in the first two games of a series between NL division leaders.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The benches did empty briefly after Gomez slid through second base on second baseman's Kevin Frandsen's relay on a double play to end the eighth inning. Gomez had reached after getting hit by a pitch.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Shortstop Ian Desmond took issue with the slide in a seven-run game and exchanged words with Gomez. No punches were thrown and the teams returned to their dugouts.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;''You get hit with a ball, you get a little adrenaline going, and you're going to go in hard,'' Roenicke said. ''It was a clean slide, it was right at the bag, so I didn't have a problem with it.''&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;NOTES: Nationals OF Bryce Harper (left thumb) has joined Class AA Harrisburg for the next phase of his rehab stint for a left thumb injury. ... Williams said C Wilson Ramos (right hamstring) could rejoin the team in time for the start of Thursday's four game series in Chicago against the Cubs. ... Doug Fister (6-5) will start the opener of the Cubs series. Milwaukee opens a four-game set on Thursday at Miller Park with Wily Peralta (8-5) taking the hill.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;---&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Follow Genaro Armas at http://twitter.com/GArmasAP&lt;/p&gt;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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