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The Brewers then head out on the road for the first time in the 1972 season and start in Baltimore against the Lords.
This is their first look at the new home of the Lords, the cozy Community Stadium. Community Stadium seats up to 39,600, putting it a bit below average in the MGL in terms of seating capacity. It plays as a slight hitters park, a bit more favorable to left-handed hitters than right-handers. It is a pretty good place to hit the long ball.

You wouldn't know it was a hitters park though by the Brewers performance there in the two game series.
In game 1 they were shutout by Yin-Ti Lau. The Taiwanese righty seems to often have the Brewers number, and did again on this occasion, limiting them to a pair of singles and a pair of walks, while striking out 7 and getting the complete game shutout victory. Steve Green was not very sharp for Denver in his second start of the season, allowing 5 runs on 8 hits in 7 1/3rd innings pitched and he drops to 0-1 with a 2.87 ERA.

Game 2 saw the Brewers return the favor behind the strong pitching of Harry Lyerly, Liann-wei Hua, and Jose de los Santos. Lyerly allowed just 4 hits and 2 walks while striking out 7 over 7 1/3rd innings pitched and got the win to improve to 2-0 with a 2.02 ERA. Hua and de los Santos preserved the narrow lead and de los Santos got his 2nd save of the season in the process as the Brewers prevailed 2-0. Some sloppy defense by the Lords in the top of the 9th gave the Brewers a bit of insurance, as Danny Roman reached on a 1-out error by the Lords firstbaseman (after Bobby Erbakan had led off with a double but was out trying to stretch it to a triple), and came home after rookie Paul Mackins singled and the Lords rightfielder, Jeff Crozier, who has a cannon arm, overshot his throw to third trying to erase Roman from the base paths.