{"id":582525,"date":"2026-04-04T21:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582525\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T21:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:44:13","slug":"garrett-mitchell-drives-in-five-runs-to-power-milwaukee-brewers-over-kansas-city-royals-in-opening-game-of-doubleheader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/582525\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Mitchell drives in five runs to power Milwaukee Brewers over Kansas City Royals in opening game of doubleheader"},"content":{"rendered":"

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Garrett Mitchell<\/a> matched a career high for RBIs with a two-run double and a three-run homer in the first three innings alone, and the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> held on to beat the Kansas City Royals<\/a> 5-2 on Saturday in the opener of their doubleheader.<\/p>\n

Chad Patrick<\/a> (1-0) scattered four hits and three walks over five scoreless innings for the Brewers. Aaron Ashby<\/a> and Abner Uribe<\/a> took over and handed a three-run lead to All-Star closer Trevor Megill<\/a>, whose two-out walk to Bobby Witt Jr.<\/a> in the ninth brought the tying run to the plate.<\/p>\n

Megill struck out Vinnie Pasquantino<\/a> with a 98 mph fastball to end the game, much to the delight of the resident \u201crally tortoise\u201d hanging out in the Milwaukee clubhouse these days.<\/p>\n

Mitchell did all of his damage against Luinder Avila<\/a> (0-1), who made his first major league start for Kansas City after pitching out of the bullpen as a rookie last season. He allowed all five runs on eight hits and two walks in three-plus innings.<\/p>\n

Avila was recalled from Triple-A Omaha to start Friday night in place of Michael Wacha<\/a>, who was scratched because of an illness. That game wound up getting postponed 90 minutes before first pitch because of an approaching storm, setting up the doubleheader.<\/p>\n

Mitchell, who had driven in five runs total during a 5-1 season-opening homestand, picked up two RBIs with his two-out double in the first. Two innings later, Mitchell hit Avila\u2019s two-out pitch an estimated 420 feet to right-center to give Milwaukee a 5-0 lead.<\/p>\n

The Royals had a runner cut down at the plate in the second inning and stranded two more at third before Lane Thomas<\/a>\u2019 RBI single in the seventh. Witt made it 5-2 with his hard-hit single before the Brewers bullpen got out of the inning.<\/p>\n

Kansas City\u2019s own relief crew wound up pitching six innings of two-hit ball.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

The nightcap of the doubleheader featured the original Saturday afternoon matchups. RHP Brandon Sproat<\/a> (0-0, 21.00 ERA) was on the mound for Milwaukee while RHP Seth Lugo<\/a> (1-0, 0.00) got the start for Kansas City.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

AP MLB: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/p>\n

Dave Skretta, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) \u2014 Garrett Mitchell matched a career high for RBIs with a two-run double and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-582525","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=582525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}