{"id":64100,"date":"2025-08-13T03:17:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64100\/"},"modified":"2025-08-13T03:17:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T03:17:07","slug":"brewers-hammer-paul-skenes-pirates-as-win-streak-reaches-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/64100\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers hammer Paul Skenes, Pirates as win streak reaches 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE — Sal Frelick<\/a> and Brice Turang<\/a> homered off Paul Skenes<\/a>, and the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> pounded the Pittsburgh Pirates<\/a> 14-0 on Tuesday night for their 11th consecutive victory.<\/p>\n

Christian Yelich<\/a>, Andrew Vaughn<\/a> and Caleb Durbin<\/a> also went deep as major league-leading Milwaukee improved to 27-5 in its past 32 games. Freddy Peralta<\/a> (14-5) pitched six innings of three-hit ball in his second straight win.<\/p>\n

The Brewers’ 11-game winning streak is their second of the season and the second-longest in franchise history.<\/p>\n

Skenes (7-9) permitted four runs and six hits in four innings. The ace right-hander struck out four and walked two.<\/p>\n

It was Skenes’ first loss since July 11. He allowed a total of four runs in his previous four starts.<\/p>\n

Frelick hit a leadoff drive in the first for his ninth homer. Turang added a solo shot in the fourth for his 12th homer, lifting the Brewers to a 3-0 lead.<\/p>\n

Yelich’s 23rd homer — a two-run drive off Yohan Ramirez<\/a> in the fifth — made it 6-0, and Vaughn capped Milwaukee’s six-run sixth with a three-run shot. Durbin tacked on a two-run homer in the eighth against Pirates infielder Jared Triolo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Brewers have a major league-high 23 homers in August. Six of those have come from Turang, doubling his season total.<\/p>\n

Coupled with the Chicago Cubs<\/a>‘ loss in Toronto, Milwaukee increased its NL Central lead to 7 1\/2 games — the largest cushion in the majors.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE — Sal Frelick and Brice Turang homered off Paul Skenes, and the Milwaukee Brewers pounded the Pittsburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,591,85],"class_list":["post-64100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64100","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=64100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}