{"id":154328,"date":"2025-09-19T12:24:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154328\/"},"modified":"2025-09-19T12:24:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-19T12:24:07","slug":"brewers-beat-angels-5-2-to-complete-sweep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/154328\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers beat Angels 5-2 to complete sweep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MILWAUKEE \u2014 Christian Yelich went 2 for 4 and reached 100 RBIs for the season as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Angels 5-2 on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>Christian Yelich went 2 for 4 and reached 100 RBIs for the season as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Los Angeles Angels 5-2 on Thursday night<br \/>\n<br \/>Yelich\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brewers\/status\/1968853625305751856\" rel=\"nofollow\">doubled home<\/a>\u00a0Brice Turang as part of the Brewers\u2019 three-run outburst in the seventh inning that broke a 2-all tie<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers completed a three-game sweep and reduced their magic number for clinching the NL Central to four<\/p>\n<p>Yelich\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brewers\/status\/1968853625305751856\" rel=\"nofollow\">doubled home<\/a>\u00a0Brice Turang as part of the Brewers\u2019 three-run outburst in the seventh inning that broke a 2-all tie. This marks Yelich\u2019s first 100-RBI season since 2018, when he had 110 and was named the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/fb6117503eb34b8e96314383ad29ed89\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NL MVP.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Brewers completed a three-game sweep and reduced their magic number for clinching the NL Central to four. The Angels have lost seven straight.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee\u2019s Quinn Priester struck out eight of the first nine batters he faced and didn\u2019t allow a baserunner until the fifth inning, when Jo Adell drew a leadoff walk and Luis Rengifo homered. Those were the only runs allowed by Priester, who struck out 10 and gave up three hits and two walks in 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Priester has won a Brewers-record 12 straight decisions. He left this game with Milwaukee trailing 2-1, but the Brewers rallied after his departure.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee tied it in the sixth when Caleb Durbin greeted Jos\u00e9 Ferm\u00edn with a two-out single that scored Yelich.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Chourio led off the seventh with a ground-rule double off Luis Garc\u00eda (2-2) and scored the go-ahead run on Turang\u2019s single. After Yelich doubled home Turang, William Contreras came home on Andrew Vaughn&#8217;s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n<p>Aaron Ashby (4-2) struck out three in 1 1\/3 scoreless innings to get the win. Jared Koenig worked the ninth for his second save in four opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Angels starter Yusei Kikuchi allowed two runs over 5 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n<p>Key moments<\/p>\n<p>With runners on third and second, Milwaukee&#8217;s Blake Perkins made a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Brewers\/status\/1968850974396551562\" rel=\"nofollow\">diving catch<\/a>\u00a0of Chris Taylor&#8217;s drive to the center-field warning track in the seventh to keep the score tied 2-all.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles had runners on the corners with one out in the eighth, but Abner Uribe struck out Rengifo and Yo\u00e1n Moncada to end the threat.<\/p>\n<p>Key stat<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers have won the last 19 games that Priester pitched, a stretch that includes 16 starts and three games in which he followed an opener.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>The Angels head to Colorado. Friday&#8217;s scheduled starters are Mitch Farris (1-1, 4.80 ERA) for the Angels and Bradley Blalock (1-5, 9.00) for the Rockies.<\/p>\n<p>The Brewers go to St. Louis. Jacob Misiorowski (5-2, 4.35) pitches for Milwaukee and Sonny Gray (13-8, 4.43) starts for the Cardinals on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE \u2014 Christian Yelich went 2 for 4 and reached 100 RBIs for the season as the Milwaukee&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154329,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[58195,16738,3979,64,63,591,44,85,39,12216],"class_list":["post-154328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-wisconsin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154328\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}