{"id":892848,"date":"2026-09-12T09:34:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:34:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892848\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T09:34:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T09:34:03","slug":"garrett-mitchell-hits-grand-slam-and-mlb-best-brewers-pound-reds-to-clinch-playoff-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/892848\/","title":{"rendered":"Garrett Mitchell hits grand slam and MLB-best Brewers pound Reds to clinch playoff spot"},"content":{"rendered":"

MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Garrett Mitchell<\/a> hit the Brewers\u2019 first grand slam of the season, one of four homers for Milwaukee in a 20-0 rout of the Cincinnati Reds<\/a> on Friday night that clinched a playoff spot for the majors\u2019 best team.<\/p>\n

William Contreras<\/a>, Bryce Turang and Jake Bauers<\/a> also went deep for the Brewers (92-56), who have a commanding lead in the NL Central but for now are assured of at least a wild-card spot. They lead second-place Chicago by 10 games in the division, and their magic number to clinch that title is four.<\/p>\n

Dustin May<\/a> (7-9) and Garrett Stallings<\/a> combined on a two-hitter while Milwaukee pounded out a season-high 23 hits. May worked six innings, giving up two singles to standout Reds rookie Sal Stewart<\/a> in his seventh start for the Brewers. He was acquired from St. Louis at the trade deadline.<\/p>\n

Stallings got the last nine outs for his first save.<\/p>\n

Andrew Abbott<\/a> (6-11) allowed eight runs on nine hits in two innings, his shortest start of the season.<\/p>\n

Mitchell\u2019s first career slam capped an eight-run fifth inning against Luis Mey<\/a>. He went 3 for 5.<\/p>\n

Turang hit a three-run homer, his 18th, and Bauers sent a fastball from Abbott 412 feet to center for a two-run shot, his 25th, to cap a sixth-run second. Turang finished 3 for 3 with a walk.<\/p>\n

Catcher Jose Trevino<\/a> came in to pitch in the seventh and retired the side in order. In the eighth, he gave up a three-run homer to Contreras.<\/p>\n

Jackson Chourio<\/a> went 4 for 6 with four hits and two RBIs.<\/p>\n

Elly De La Cruz<\/a> extended his streak of reaching base safely to 18 games with a walk in the sixth.<\/p>\n

Up next<\/p>\n

RHP Brady Singer<\/a> (6-13, 5.03 ERA) starts Saturday night for the Reds. The Brewers have yet to name a starter.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

See AP\u2019s full MLB coverage here <\/p>\n

Joe Totoraitis, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Garrett Mitchell hit the Brewers\u2019 first grand slam of the season, one of four homers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":892849,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":["post-892848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892848","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=892848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/892848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/892849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=892848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=892848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=892848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}