Brewers 14, Dbacks 4: A trio of homers for Willy Adames? He's ready for the season.

PHOENIX – Save some for the regular season, Willy Adames.

That’s the message that the Milwaukee Brewers shortstop himself was telling anyone who could hear after his powerful day at the plate Sunday afternoon.

Adames slugged three home runs, including one off all-star Merrill Kelly, as part of a six-homer day and 14-4 win for the Brewers over the Arizona Diamondbacks.

Assuming Adames does have some dingers left in the reserve – and given his 59 homers the last two years, that seems like a safe assumption – then it would seem he is rounding into form at the right time with opening day four sleeps away.

“I’m trying to tell Rhys (Hoskins) that’s too many already. Got to save them for the regular season,” Adames said. “It’s a good feeling. It’s a good feeling, obviously, getting to the end of spring training and you’re about to start the regular season. You always want to have a great feeling going into the regular season and I think that’s what today did. The last couple of days have been great and a lot of work. It makes me feel better and better every game.”

Adames, who now has five homers in the past five games and six this spring, took Kelly deep for the first time in his second at-bat by clubbing a low fastball pit to left-center.

For his second, he lofted a fly high into the breezy wind out to center and it carried just over the fence. It was the third homer in a four batter span for the Brewers, who had already seen Sal Frelick and Rhys Hoskins go back to back earlier in the inning.

19-year-old prospect Luis Lara clocked the first Cactus League homer of his career in the fifth for the Brewers’ sixth of the game.

Then Adames blasted his third of the day on a no-doubter to center later in the sixth.

Brewers break out the bats

One game makes not an indicative sample. One spring game doesn’t even come remotely close.

But this, still, is exactly what the Brewers want to see after a down year for the offense.

The homers, of course, are nice, but it was the entire puzzle that Hoskins and company excited Sunday.

There was excellence in depth as well as in hustle from the Brewers.

Brice Turang had three hits. Three other Brewers had multi-hit days. Everyone who started had at least one hit. Frelick and Turang stole a base.

“The wind’s blowing out today, of course, but I always say that you still got to hit it,” Hoskins said. “Maybe some of them aren’t always home runs, but I would give us the bulk of them are probably not outs. We’ve been preaching trying to play offense and not just going out there and swinging and hitting. Obviously the long ball was great for us today but we were able to continue to apply pressure on the basepaths, took a couple extra bases, stole some bases.”

DL Hall makes last start of spring

Likely to pitch Saturday in New York for the Brewers second game of the season, DL Hall got his final tuneup in against the Diamondbacks. A few two-strike hits against his fastball and a defensive miscue by catcher Gary Sanchez on a play at the plate led to a pair of second-inning runs, but Hall settled in and was dominant after.

He finished by retiring 11 straight batters to allow just the two runs on five hits with no walks and four strikeouts in five innings.

Jackson Chourio watch

Chourio had the day off.

Coming up

Brewers vs. Rockies, 3:10 p.m. Monday. Milwaukee RHP Colin Rea  vs. Colorado RHP Dakota Hudson. Broadcast:  Radio – 620 AM WTMJ.

This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers 14, Dbacks 4: A trio of homers for Willy Adames