Rickie Weeks and Carlos Gomez delivered back-to-back home runs in the Brewers’ first two at-bats of 2011, sparking a three-run rally in Milwaukee’s regular season opening inning for an early lead against the defending National League Central champion Reds.
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Weeks hit Cincinnati starter Edinson Volquez’s eighth pitch of the season to the left-field seats for his 22nd career leadoff home run and the first by a Brewers hitter leading off a season. Gomez turned on a sinker two pitches later for a booming homer to the second deck, making the 2011 Brewers the first team since the 1969 Reds to get back-to-back home runs to begin a season. Weeks and Gomez joined Pete Rose and Bobby Tolan, who took the Dodgers’ Don Drysdale deep to begin the ’69 season.
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