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Final Score: Colorado 4 - Milwaukee 3

Milwaukee, WI (Sports Network) - Matt Holliday was 2-for-4 with a home run and two runs batted in, as the Colorado Rockies held on to defeat an enhanced Milwaukee Brewers club, 4-3, in the opener of a four-game series at Miller Park.

Ubaldo Jimenez (4-8) scattered three hits, struck out seven and walked five in seven scoreless innings for Colorado. Taylor Buchholz allowed three unearned runs in two-thirds of an inning. Manuel Corpas recorded the final out in the eighth and Brian Fuentes tossed a perfect ninth to collect his 14th save.

"My fastball, after the first inning, I was able to locate it inside and away," said Jimenez."

Jeff Baker had two hits and scored a run for the Rockies, who have won six of their last seven games following a season-high-tying eight-game skid. Clint Barmes doubled and scored a run.

Seth McClung (5-4) went just 4 2/3 innings and gave up two runs on three hits with five walks and five strikeouts to absorb the loss for Milwaukee. Carlos Villanueva allowed two runs -- one earned -- on three hits and fanned four in 2 1/3 innings of relief.

"The walks got him in the end," Milwaukee manager Ned Yost said of McClung. "He pitched, actually, pretty good when he wasn't walking guys."

Prince Fielder clubbed a two-run homer for the Brewers, who lost for only the second time in their last seven contests.

Prior to the game, Milwaukee bolstered its pitching staff by acquiring C.C. Sabathia from the Cleveland Indians. The Brewers dealt their top prospect, left fielder Matt LaPorta, and pitchers Zach Jackson and Rob Bryson along with a player to be named later. The Brewers are hoping the move helps them reach the postseason for the first time since 1982.

The reigning American League Cy Young Award winner, Sabathia had a record of 6-8 with a 3.83 earned run average this season for the Tribe. He is the first reigning Cy Young winner to be traded since Roger Clemens was shipped to the New York Yankees in the offseason after capturing the award with the Toronto Blue Jays in 1998.

Sabathia and Ben Sheets (10-2, 2.77 ERA) now form one of the strongest 1-2 punches in the National League. The 27-year-old left-hander is scheduled to become a free agent at the end of the season and already had turned down a contract extension to stay in Cleveland.

Milwaukee placed pitcher Jeff Suppan on the 15-day disabled list Monday due to a joint irritation of the right elbow, making room on the roster for Sabathia, who will make his Brewers debut on Tuesday.

Trailing 4-0, the Brewers scored three times in the bottom of the eighth. The frame began with Gabe Kapler reaching first on Joe Koshansky's fielding error. Kapler took second on a Buchholz wild pitch. Craig Counsell then hit a high pop up in front of the mound that fell in between Garrett Atkins and Chris Iannetta for an infield single.

J.J. Hardy, named National League Player of the Week for the period ending July 6, then drew a walk to load the bases before Ryan Braun grounded into a 6-4-3 double play, scoring Kapler. Fielder followed with a two-run smash that cleared the center field wall. Corpas relieved Buchholz and gave up a single to Corey Hart, but got Russell Branyan to fly out to end the inning.

Fuentes retired the Brewers in order in the ninth.

Milwaukee had traffic on the basepaths throughout the first three innings but couldn't produce any runs.

The Rockies loaded the bases with no outs in the fourth on a double by Barmes and walks to Holliday and Brad Hawpe. An Atkins sacrifice fly put the visitors on the board, but McClung fanned Koshansky and got Baker on a flyout to avoid further trouble.

McClung walked Iannetta and Jimenez to begin the fifth, and a Willy Taveras sacrifice bunt put runners on second and third. After Barmes popped out, Holliday stroked a run-scoring to single to left field for a 2-0 lead. Hawpe followed with a walk before Villanueva was called on from the bullpen. Atkins then went down swinging to leave the bases loaded.

Baker ripped a one-out single in the sixth, stole second and scored when third baseman Branyan misplayed a grounder off the bat of Jimenez.

The Rockies extended their lead further in the seventh on Holliday's 14th home run of the season -- a lead-off shot to left.