"The way the Milwaukee Brewers are playing, it's going to take a lot more than Zack Greinke to rescue them.

Looking about as bad as you can look in all facets of the game Wednesday, the Brewers were swept in a doubleheader, 8-3 and 8-0, by the Atlanta Braves, stretching their losing streak to five games after winning the opener of this 10-game trip.

"We're not playing good baseball," said manager Ron Roenicke, whose club dropped its second doubleheader of the young season. "We're not doing anything well right now.

"We need to start playing the kind of ball I know we can play. It's a great team out there (in the clubhouse). We're not playing that way right now."

Showing he has a ways to go after returning from a cracked rib suffered playing basketball early in spring training, Greinke was no match for Atlanta's Tim Hudson in the nightcap. Hudson tossed a one-hitter, allowing only Rickie Weeks' leadoff double in the fourth inning and a two-out walk to Weeks in the ninth.

Greinke made it through only four innings in his debut with the Brewers, allowing five hits, five runs (four earned) and one walk with six strikeouts. He threw 86 pitches, 57 for strikes.

"I guess the end result was bad, but for the most part I pitched decent," said Greinke. "Hopefully, we look at it and maybe there's something that 'Kranny' (pitching coach Rick Kranitz) can find so that next outing I won't have so many foul balls and long at-bats and hopefully go deeper in the game.

"I don't remember anyone putting a ball in play early in an at-bat, which takes its toll after a while. All of my pitches were decent; nothing was amazing."

Not that the Brewers' increasingly sloppy defense helped Greinke. Errors by first baseman Prince Fielder and catcher Wil Nieves (interference) in the first inning led to an unearned run but even worse, forced Greinke to throw 32 pitches."