Trevor Sto­ry hit the base­ball this week like it’s the size of a beach ball.

Five games. Four home runs.

His 422-foot blast gave the Rock­ies a fifth-inning lead on Sat­ur­day at the Mil­wau­kee Brew­ers. But Col­orado pitch­ing woes ulti­mate­ly stymied Story’s recent pow­er surge in a 10–4 loss. Col­orado starter Anto­nio Sen­za­tela strug­gled with two ear­ly balks and last­ed just five innings. The bullpen inher­it­ed a one-run lead and blew it.

The Rock­ies (31–46) are now 6–30 on the road this sea­son. Col­orado clos­es its cur­rent series on Sun­day at Mil­wau­kee (44–33).

On Sat­ur­day, Colorado’s tal­ent­ed lead­off duo of Raimel Tapia and Yonathan Daza pro­duced instant offense. Tapia sin­gled off Brew­ers’ starter Adri­an Houser and then stole sec­ond. A Daza sin­gle put the Rock­ies ahead 1–0.

But Sen­za­tela couldn’t main­tain that momen­tum. His 35-pitch first inning was extend­ed by the Rock­ies’ first balk of this season.

It began when Chris­t­ian Yelich hit an RBI sin­gle that scored Colton Wong. Sen­za­tela, one pitch away from clos­ing the side, faced Willy Adames when the sec­ond base umpire called for the balk. Sen­za­tela then walked Adames. It prompt­ed an ear­ly mound vis­it from Rock­ies man­ag­er Bud Black.

But their brief chat did lit­tle to set­tle the right-hander’s nerves. Tyrone Tay­lor ripped Sen­za­tela for an RBI sin­gle to give Mil­wau­kee a 2–1 lead.

Sen­za­tela got called for anoth­er balk in the sec­ond inning. Video replay shows he did not pause long enough on his deliv­ery in those instances. Sen­za­tela set­tled into the game as it continued.

The Rock­ies clawed back in the fourth when Sto­ry walked, stole sec­ond, and moved to third on a Ryan McMa­hon ground­out. C.J. Cron walked. Then Bren­dan Rodgers ham­mered an RBI sin­gle to tie the game.

The pen­du­lum quick­ly swung back to Mil­wau­kee, though, lat­er in the inning. Sen­za­tela put two run­ners on (sin­gle and walk) when Houser bunt­ed. Rock­ies first base­man C.J. Cron bob­bled it and threw wild­ly toward third. The fielder’s choice error scored Keston Hiu­ra and Mil­wau­kee went up 3–2.

But clutch Col­orado hit­ting in the fifth — Char­lie Blackmon’s two-out sin­gle and Story’s home run — put the team ahead 4–3.

Senzatela’s after­noon was done after 98 pitch­es (62 strikes) while issu­ing five Ks and three walks.

Reliev­er Jhoulys Chacin entered from the bullpen. He gave up a solo homer to Avi­sail Gar­cia in the sev­enth inning to tie the game.

Col­orado opened the eighth by draw­ing a pair of walks from McMa­hon and Rodgers but failed to cap­i­tal­ize with runs. Car­los Estevez then replaced Chacin. He loaded the bases with zero outs — walk, HBP, bunt sin­gle — and a deep sac­ri­fice fly from Omar Nar­vaez brought in Milwaukee’s go-ahead run. The Brew­ers ran up the score, 7–4, with a Luis Urias single.

Ben Bow­den came in for Estevez to close the game. Yelich cranked his first pitch for a two-run homer. Gar­cia and Adames both dou­bled to make it 10–4.