BOSTON -- All spring, Yovani Gallardo spoke with urgency about bouncing back from a subpar 2013 season. Now he's backing up the talk with his pitching.Gallardo led the Brewers to a 4-0 win and their first three-game sweep of the Red Sox in more than two decades by scattering seven hits over 6 2/3 scoreless innings on a sunny Sunday at Fenway Park. The outing came six days after Gallardo (2-0) worked six scoreless innings in an Opening Day victory over the Braves. 
Brewers left fielder Khris Davis finished a sensational series with two more hits and two runs scored against Boston's Jon Lester. The visitors never trailed in the series against their old American League East rivals and swept the Sox for the first time since October 1993, when Gallardo was in the second grade.He struck out only three, but walked none and kept the baseball out of the air all afternoon. Only two of Gallardo's first 17 outs came via fly ball to the outfield; the others were strikeouts, groundouts or line drives on the infield, including Gallardo's own slick snare of a Daniel Nava comebacker for the first out of the third.Only one of the Red Sox's first five hits went for extra bases. When Gallardo surrendered a double to Jackie Bradley Jr. and an infield single to David Ross in the seventh, manager Ron Roenicke tapped the bullpen. Zach Duke and Tyler Thornburg finished the shutout.The Brewers began last season 1-5 but owned a 4-2 record as they headed to Philadelphia on Sunday night, a start fueled by the starting pitchers. Including Gallardo's gem, Brewers starters own a 1.64 ERA in six games, with no individual outings of more than three earned runs. Together, they are holding opponents to a .196 batting average (27-for-138).Lester took a second straight tough-luck loss after holding the Brewers to four runs (two earned) on seven hits in 7 1/3 innings. After Mark Reynolds' RBI single and an error on Red Sox right fielder Nava gave Milwaukee a 2-0 lead in the second, Lester retired 16 batters in a row. Davis snapped that streak with a one-out double in the seventh and scored four batters later on Jeff Bianchi's one-out single. Aramis Ramirez added another RBI single in the eighth.Last year, the Brewers were the last team in the Majors to record a shutout. On Sunday they became the first team to log two shutouts this year.Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
Brewers left fielder Khris Davis finished a sensational series with two more hits and two runs scored against Boston's Jon Lester. The visitors never trailed in the series against their old American League East rivals and swept the Sox for the first time since October 1993, when Gallardo was in the second grade.He struck out only three, but walked none and kept the baseball out of the air all afternoon. Only two of Gallardo's first 17 outs came via fly ball to the outfield; the others were strikeouts, groundouts or line drives on the infield, including Gallardo's own slick snare of a Daniel Nava comebacker for the first out of the third.Only one of the Red Sox's first five hits went for extra bases. When Gallardo surrendered a double to Jackie Bradley Jr. and an infield single to David Ross in the seventh, manager Ron Roenicke tapped the bullpen. Zach Duke and Tyler Thornburg finished the shutout.The Brewers began last season 1-5 but owned a 4-2 record as they headed to Philadelphia on Sunday night, a start fueled by the starting pitchers. Including Gallardo's gem, Brewers starters own a 1.64 ERA in six games, with no individual outings of more than three earned runs. Together, they are holding opponents to a .196 batting average (27-for-138).Lester took a second straight tough-luck loss after holding the Brewers to four runs (two earned) on seven hits in 7 1/3 innings. After Mark Reynolds' RBI single and an error on Red Sox right fielder Nava gave Milwaukee a 2-0 lead in the second, Lester retired 16 batters in a row. Davis snapped that streak with a one-out double in the seventh and scored four batters later on Jeff Bianchi's one-out single. Aramis Ramirez added another RBI single in the eighth.Last year, the Brewers were the last team in the Majors to record a shutout. On Sunday they became the first team to log two shutouts this year.Adam McCalvy / MLB.com
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