Rockies walk-off Brewers behind Jake Cave's 10th-inning single for first consecutive victories since May

But no lead is safe with the erratic Rockies’ bullpen, and the Brewers plated three runs in the eighth. After Christian Yelich’s triple off Anthony Molina, Willy Adames singled Yelich home, and then Rhys Hoskins’ sacrifice fly off Justin Lawrence scored Adams. Haase followed with a slicing liner over the glove of a leaping McMahon, giving Milwaukee a 7-6 lead.

But Doyle retaliated in the bottom of the inning, this time with a solo homer to right off Elvis Peguero. It marked Doyle’s second career multi-homer game and first this year.

Victor Vodnik set the Brewers down in order in the ninth and Tyler Kinley worked around traffic in the 10th to set up Cave’s heroics that scored California runner Aaron Schunk. The rookie advanced to third on Michael Toglia’s sacrifice fly that prompted the intentional walks to Doyle and Jones.

Schunk became the second player in Rockies history to score his first career run in a walk-off (also: Pat Valaika in 2016) and the first to score his first career run in extra innings.

Updates on Easy Cheese, KB. German Marquez’s return to the Rockies’ rotation is imminent, while Kris Bryant remains a ways off.

Marquez has made five rehab starts in the minors so far in his return from Tommy John surgery, but lasted just 2/3 of an inning in his last outing with Triple-A Albuquerque on Friday. He is back with the club as the Rockies begin their homestand, and is scheduled to fly out to Double-A Hartford for another rehab start later this week.

From there, the Rockies are likely to activate him at some point during their final road trip before the all-star break, setting Marquez up for his 2024 debut. The Rockies head to Cincinnati for a seven-game road trip on July 8, four against the Reds followed by three against the Mets.

“There’s a bit of schedule involvement in there that might come into play for us,” Black said.

Meanwhile, Bryant is finally starting to ramp up baseball activities. The outfielder/first baseman has been on the injured list since June 3 with a rib and oblique issue. He’s missed 57 of 84 games in his third straight injury-riddled season with the Rockies.

Bryant played catch and hit in the cage on Monday, but there’s still no timetable for his return to the lineup. A rehab stint in Triple-A will be necessary before Bryant comes back to the bigs.

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