DENVER -- All-Star Game hopeful William Contreras emerged from a cold June with a hot start to July on a night the plucky Brewers got contributions from all over the lineup.

Trouble is, there’s no such thing as scoring enough runs at Coors Field.

The Brewers scored seven times on 14 hits, with Contreras finishing a triple shy of the cycle, Willy Adames snapping an 0-for-27 funk with three hits and Garrett Mitchell and Eric Haase each contributing in their season debuts. They also lost, 8-7 in 10 innings on Monday, when Rockies right fielder Jake Cave hit a single over a five-man Brewers infield to finish Milwaukee’s 11th loss in the past 14 games at Colorado’s high-altitude home.

“It’s offensive, for sure. The ball flies here,” said Brewers third baseman Joey Ortiz, a first-time visitor. “But the field doesn’t matter. We’re going to fight until the end wherever we go.”

It was a Coors Field classic, with four lead changes and equal parts bloops and home runs -- Contreras hit his 10th for the Brewers, and Charlie Blackmon and Brenton Doyle combined for three homers for the Rockies on sinkers that didn’t sink in the thin air. Doyle went deep twice, the second a game-tying shot off Elvis Peguero in the eighth inning after the Brewers briefly took the lead.

With so many balls in play and runners in motion there was also, almost inevitably, a disputed call on the basepaths. It came in the fifth inning with the teams tied at 3-3, when Ortiz was called out for leaving the baseline on a bunt attempt. When Brewers manager Pat Murphy argued, he was ejected.

It proved a huge call when Contreras followed with a home run to right field.

“I assumed that the two white lines in the dirt means you’re in the baseline,” Ortiz said. “I had no idea about the three-foot rule.”

The three-foot rule is covered in section 5.09(b)(1) of the rulebook:

Any runner is out when: He runs more than three feet away from his base path to avoid being tagged unless his action is to avoid interference with a fielder fielding a batted ball. A runner’s base path is established when the tag attempt occurs and is a straight line from the runner to the base he is attempting to reach safely.

First-base umpire (and crew chief) Brian O’Nora determined that Ortiz strayed more than three feet. Ortiz and the Brewers disagreed.

“In my judgment, I felt like he didn’t go more than three feet away,” Murphy said.

Said Ortiz: “My foot was clearly in the [marked] baseline. Whatever he says, goes. … I don’t think one play determines the game. It’s unfortunate that it didn’t go our way, but it was a good game until the end.”

For the rest of the night, that phantom run loomed large. Contreras’ home run gave the Brewers a 4-3 lead, but the Rockies reclaimed a 5-4 advantage in the bottom of the fifth and made it 6-4 after the departure of Bryse Wilson, the originally-scheduled Brewers starter who instead worked after “opener” Rob Zastryzny.

Wilson had the same problem Peguero would later endure. Sinkers don’t always sink at Coors Field.

“I think part of me thought I would be able to come here and execute the way I should, but … I just didn’t do that,” Wilson said. “I’m a sinkerballer. That’s my best pitch and I throw it a lot and it just doesn’t sink here. You just have to execute, and I didn’t execute the way I should have.”

Said Haase, who caught all 10 innings in his Brewers debut: “This is a strange place, man.”

Still, the Brewers had their chances to win thanks largely to their stars. Contreras, Yelich and Adames combined for eight hits and five runs scored in the middle of the lineup. For Contreras, it was a fresh start to a new month. He’s emerged this season as one of a handful of the best catchers in baseball with his savvy defense and steady offense. Contreras finished April with a .952 OPS, then backed it up with an .837 OPS in May.

But June was a tough month for the 26-year-old, who slipped to a .535 OPS.

“I'm proud of our guys. They hung in there,” Murphy said. “They got behind early and came battling back and had some opportunities. We didn't execute in the end the way we needed to, and credit to the Rockies for coming up with big hits. They probably had 15-16 hard contacts today. Credit to them."