MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Garrett Mitchell scored the go-ahead run as the Milwaukee Brewers bunted three straight times in the seventh inning to break a tie and beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1 on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Aaron Ashby (5-0) faced only two batters and got the final out in the seventh to take over the major league lead in wins.<\/p>\n
Toronto stranded the potential tying run at third when Kazuma Okamoto grounded out against Angel Zerpa, who earned his second save. Vladimir Guerrero Jr. had hit a leadoff single and reached third on a pair of grounders to the right side.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee snapped a six-game skid<\/a> Wednesday by scoring twice in the eighth inning while hitting just one ball out of the infield. The Brewers didn\u2019t hit any balls out of the infield during their seventh-inning rally Thursday.<\/p>\n Mitchell drew a leadoff walk from Tommy Nance (0-1) and Greg Jones bunted him over to second. David Hamilton beat out a bunt hit to put runners on the corners. Joey Ortiz delivered a safety squeeze that brought home Mitchell.<\/p>\n Toronto also scored on a safety squeeze.<\/p>\n Andr\u00e9s Gim\u00e9nez hit a leadoff double, reached third on Ernie Clement\u2019s single and came home on Tyler Heineman\u2019s bunt in the third inning.<\/p>\n The Brewers tied it in the fourth. Brice Turang led off with a double, moved to third on William Contreras\u2019 single and slid home safely on Luis Rengifo\u2019s sacrifice fly to left.<\/p>\n Milwaukee starter Brandon Sproat struck out six and gave up one run, one walk and four hits in a career-high 6 2\/3 innings.<\/p>\n Trevor Megill<\/a> retired the side in the order with two strikeouts in the eighth inning before Zerpa worked the ninth. Megill, a 2025 All-Star, was pitching two days after allowing three runs in the ninth inning of a 9-7, 10-inning loss to Toronto<\/a>.<\/p>\n Up next<\/p>\n Blue Jays: Head to Arizona for a three-game series. Eric Lauer (1-2, 7.82 ERA) starts for Toronto and Michael Soroka (3-0, 2.87) pitches for Arizona on Friday.<\/p>\n Brewers: Go to Miami for a three-game series. The Brewers haven\u2019t named a starting pitcher for Friday. Janson Junk (0-2, 4.32) will start for Miami.<\/p>\n Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Garrett Mitchell scored the go-ahead run as the Milwaukee Brewers bunted three straight times in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":608837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,229614,462,82,19512],"class_list":["post-608836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-generic","tag-mlb","tag-sports","tag-tornado"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608836","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=608836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608836\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/608837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=608836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=608836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=608836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}