MILWAUKEE -- David Price was dominant on the mound, recovering from a shaky first inning to mow through a potent Milwaukee Brewers lineup. . The Tampa Bay Rays starter seemed more proud of his exploits on the basepaths. Given a rare chance to hit, Price took a walk and slid into second, drawing blood from his scraped-up knee. "Yeah, that was awesome," Price said. "I got some on my pants. I played today." Catcher Kelly Shoppach heard all about it in the dugout. "Oh, yeah," Shoppach said. "The pitchers have decided thats called hitters knee, I guess." Shoppach wasnt necessarily impressed -- especially when told that Price showed up at the plate for one at-bat with his shinguard on the wrong leg. "Theres a lot of baseball purists out there that love the pitchers hitting," Shoppach said. "But oh my gosh." Shoppach hit a two-run home run in the second, Elliot Johnson added a three-run shot in the seventh and the Tampa Bay Rays beat the Milwaukee Brewers 6-3 Wednesday to take two out of three games in the series. Price (8-6) struck out 10 in eight innings, giving up two runs, five hits and a walk. Price threw 120 pitches and still was hitting 96 mph on Miller Parks radar gun in the eighth. "He went to the uber level today," Rays manager Joe Maddon said. "Thats what he had to do, and he knew that." B.J. Uptons RBI single gave Tampa Bay the lead in the sixth inning. Brewers starter Shaun Marcum went only three innings after leaving his most recent start with a hip flexor injury. Reliever Marco Estrada (1-5) lost. Kyle Farnsworth gave up a run in the ninth for Tampa Bay. He loaded the bases with one out and pinch hitter Nyjer Morgans sacrifice fly scored Prince Fielder, cutting the lead to three runs. Farnsworth then got pinch hitter Mark Kotsay to ground out and end the game. Milwaukee, one of the hottest teams in baseball earlier this month, has lost seven of its last 10 games. Brewers manager Ron Roenicke doesnt think his team is headed into a downturn. "I dont think so," Roenicke said. "I dont think were always going to play our best series." Both teams have Thursday off. Milwaukee hosts Minnesota this weekend and Tampa Bay travels to Houston. It was a predictably short outing for Marcum, who went only three innings after straining his left hip flexor in his last start. Marcum gave up two hits, including Shoppachs, with a walk and two strikeouts. Marcum didnt miss a start after pitching only one inning against Boston on Friday because of the injury, but Roenicke said going into Wednesdays game that he intended to keep Marcum on a short leash and didnt expect him to go deep into the game. "It was time to come out," Roenicke said. "We said three innings at first when we talked to him. We were going to look at three and then if his pitch count was down low, we didnt think he was fatigued at all, wed let him go back out another inning. He threw enough pitches and we decided we didnt want to take the chance." Marcum sailed through the first inning, but gave up the two-run homer to Shoppach in the second. Marcum picked a runner off first base in the third but that would be his final inning, as Estrada came on to pitch the fourth. Marcum said he felt fine pitching but might have tweaked it during an at-bat. "It was just that one swing I think kind of aggravated it and irritated it a little bit," Marcum said. Estrada also picked off a runner, getting Justin Ruggiano in the fifth. Estrada then allowed the go-ahead run in the sixth when Uptons soft line drive dropped in front of centre fielder Carlos Gomez to score Sean Rodriguez and give the Rays a 3-2 lead. Estrada struck out Casey Kotchman to end the inning and limit the damage. But Johnson hit a three-run homer off reliever Tim Dillard to put the game out of reach in the seventh. Ryan Braun had an RBI single and Corey Hart scored as Prince Fielder grounded into a double play to give Milwaukee a 2-0 lead in the first inning off of Price, who opened strong by throwing fastballs in the mid-90s. Braun has a 14-game hitting streak, the best of his career. Braun came into the game as the only player in the majors with three separate hitting streaks of 10 games or more this season. Notes: Maddon said reliever J.P Howell has a sore left foot and will be evaluated by the teams medical staff. Maddon was optimistic that Howell wouldnt have to go on the disabled list. ... Johnny Damon pinch-hit in the ninth, grounding out. ... Shoppach threw out Corey Hart trying to steal second base in the sixth. 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