{"id":73202,"date":"2025-08-16T03:47:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:47:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73202\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T03:47:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T03:47:06","slug":"christian-yelich-uses-bob-uecker-bat-to-power-brewers-incredible-comeback-for-13th-straight-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/73202\/","title":{"rendered":"Christian Yelich uses Bob Uecker bat to power Brewers’ incredible comeback for 13th straight win"},"content":{"rendered":"

Not even a seven-run deficit can stop the Milwaukee Brewers<\/a>. Friday night, the Brewers erased an 8-1 deficit against the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> at Great American Ball Park (MIL 10, CIN <\/a>8) to earn their 13th consecutive win. The 13-game stretch ties the longest single-season streak in franchise history, and is the second-longest in Brewers’ history overall.<\/p>\n

The comeback began in earnest when Andrew Vaughn<\/a>, who has been a revelation the last few weeks<\/a>, clubbed a three-run home run to get the Brewers to within three runs in the third inning. The hero offensively, though, was Christian Yelich<\/a>. He went 4 for 5 with a double and two home runs, including the go-ahead blast in the sixth inning. He fell a triple short of his fourth career cycle — the previous three all came against the Reds.<\/p>\n

Best of all, Yelich had his big night with a Bob Uecker bat on Players Weekend. The bat was originally made for Players Weekend last year, though Yelich was out with a back injury. Uecker passed away at age 90 in January<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“What a good life. A great life, 90 years. We should all be so fortunate,” Yelich said prior to Friday’s game (via MLB.com<\/a>). “… You remember the stories he would tell. That’s the stuff you’re really going to miss because no one else can tell stories like that. But what a life, right?”<\/p>\n

Milwaukee’s offense picked up rookie sensation Jacob Misiorowski<\/a>, who allowed five runs in 1 1\/3 innings in his first start back from a left tibia contusion. He threw 54 pitches. Lefty DL Hall<\/a> was charged with three runs in 2 2\/3 innings in relief of Misiorowski. After that, five Brewers relievers combined to retire the final 23 Reds batters.<\/p>\n

The 13-game winning streak ties the 1987 team for the longest in a single season in Brewers history. That 1987 team won its first 13 games of the season. Add in the final three games of 1986, and the team record is a 16-game winning streak spanning 1986-87. The 13-gamer ties the Minnesota Twins<\/a> for longest winning streak in baseball this year.<\/p>\n

The seven-run comeback is the Brewers’ largest since last Sept. 22, when they turned an 8-0 deficit into a 10-9 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks<\/a>. The largest comeback in franchise history is nine runs against the Houston Astros<\/a> on May 22, 2000.<\/p>\n

Friday’s win improved the Brewers to an MLB-best 77-44. They have won 28 of their last 32 games. The Reds, meanwhile, dropped to 64-59. They are a half-game behind the third wild card spot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Not even a seven-run deficit can stop the Milwaukee Brewers. Friday night, the Brewers erased an 8-1 deficit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,9105,493,462,82],"class_list":["post-73202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-christian-yelich","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73202","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=73202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}