The right-hander pitched his second consecutive quality start with a complete game. He made plays on defense and even hit an RBI double.

The rest of the Brewers followed suit, as they defeated the Padres, 5-1, in front of 14,722 at Miller Park.

Bush (4-5) had perhaps his best command of the season and only surrendered one run on a home run by Adrian Gonzalez. It was only one of three hits for the Padres while Bush struck out six batters on the night.

After the game, Bush said his ability to throw first-pitch strikes allowed him to be so successful.

"I had a little bit of everything, I was mixing pitches well," Bush said.

Brewers' manager Ned Yost said he could tell Bush would have a good night from the outset.

"Bush came out right from the onset on the attack, throwing quality strikes and executing his pitches." Yost said.

More importantly for Bush, he's building confidence in his pitching after a rough end to May. In his last three starts to end the month, he didn't pitch more than six innings and allowed five runs per start. His record for the month was a paltry 1-3.

Contrast that with his last two starts: He's pitched 16 innings and has only allowed three runs.

"My fastball location is better and obviously that gives me a chance to work my breaking ball ... They kind of go hand in hand, when one is working the other one is usually also," Bush said.

Although he said he didn't change anything or catch anything wrong with his mechanics. Instead, he said the hardest part about his struggles on the mound and the struggles of watching the team lose eight in a row were the days he wasn't pitching.

"They get kind of monotonous," Bush said. "All the work I do is done in the afternoon and by the time the game starts I'm finished for that day. It can be tough, especially when you're struggling and the team is struggling to sit there and watch for four days, knowing that you want to be out there and help them."

In addition to Bush's mastery on the mound, he nearly hit a home run in the fourth when his double caromed off of the wall in left-center and scored Brady Clark. Bush would later score on Rickie Weeks' RBI single off the Padres' Jake Peavy (4-6).

Bush wasn't the only one doing damage at the plate. Geoff Jenkins made his return to the lineup after sitting a day with a mild concussion sustained in a nasty collision with Prince Fielder on Sunday.

Jenkins snapped a 0-for-15 hitless streak and went 4-for-4 with an RBI and when asked if after a solid performance like that he would let Fielder run into him again, Jenkins said with a smile, "I'm thinking about it."

Monday, Jenkins was still woozy from the collision and it was ruled by the team's training staff that his reaction time was too slow in possible scenario of a fastball coming in too close to Jenkins. After arriving at the ballpark, Jenkins went through a series of tests to clear him to play on Tuesday.

Jenkins got the Brewers going early and scored from first on an RBI double by Carlos Lee.

"I felt like I was breathing a little harder than usual," Jenkins said. "It's just one of those things where I had trouble concentrating yesterday. I was a little bit cloudy and today I felt a lot better."

Besides the return of Jenkins a third facet of the game, after good pitching and timely hitting, the Brewers defense has improved. Carlos Lee helped out Bush by taking away a home run from Mark Bellhorn in the first.

"I didn't see the replay," Bush said. "But I heard it was close."