MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Christian Yelich hit a go-ahead, two-run single in a six-run eighth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Tampa Bay Rays 8-2 on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Garrett Mitchell added a two-run double during the decisive rally, Blake Perkins drove in a run with a groundout and David Hamilton capped the inning with an RBI single as Milwaukee (5-1) broke open a 2-2 game.<\/p>\n
Brice Turang tied it earlier with a two-run homer in the third after the Rays took the lead on Yandy D\u00edaz\u2019s two-run shot in the top half of the inning.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee starter Jacob Misiorowski (1-0) struck out seven and allowed four hits and two runs in six innings. The right-hander walked two before handing the game to the bullpen. Grant Anderson, Aaron Ashby and DL Hall combined for three scoreless innings, with Hall striking out three in the ninth.<\/p>\n
Tampa Bay (2-4) starter Drew Rasmussen allowed one run and two hits while striking out eight in five innings.<\/p>\n
The Brewers\u2019 eighth-inning surge opened after Joey Ortiz reached on a fielding error by shortstop Carson Williams. Turang\u2019s sacrifice bunt was mishandled at first base, putting runners on first and second. William Contreras then singled to load the bases.<\/p>\n
Yelich followed with a ground-ball single to right field that scored Ortiz and Turang for a 4-2 lead. Mitchell\u2019s double to right brought home two more runs before Perkins\u2019 RBI groundout and Hamilton\u2019s single extended the lead to 8-2. Milwaukee went 5 for 9 with runners in scoring position.<\/p>\n
Griffin Jax (0-2) took the loss after allowing five runs in the eighth inning.<\/p>\n
Umpire C.B. Bucknor left the game in the second inning after being struck in the mask by a foul ball off Nick Fortes\u2019 bat on a 100.2 mph fastball from Misiorowski.<\/p>\n
Chad Patrick (0-0, 2.08 ERA) will make his second start of the season against the Kansas City Royals on Friday, while Joe Boyle (0-0, 3.00 ERA) takes the mound for Tampa Bay on Friday against the Minnesota Twins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) \u2014 Christian Yelich hit a go-ahead, two-run single in a six-run eighth inning and the Milwaukee…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215106,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[98107,98056,97610,79986,21371,97609,98106,98054,84504,98055,98108,64909,97676,85676,97618,97679,756,1664,1661,1663,4399,97680,97674,135,137,136,97613],"class_list":{"0":"post-215136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-aaron-ashby","9":"tag-blake-perkins","10":"tag-brice-turang","11":"tag-carson-williams","12":"tag-chad-patrick","13":"tag-christian-yelich","14":"tag-d-l-hall","15":"tag-david-hamilton","16":"tag-drew-rasmussen","17":"tag-garrett-mitchell","18":"tag-grant-anderson","19":"tag-griffin-jax","20":"tag-jacob-misiorowski","21":"tag-joe-boyle","22":"tag-joey-ortiz","23":"tag-nick-fortes","24":"tag-package-100024-ap-online","25":"tag-package-100502-member-choice-sports-option","26":"tag-product-30599-ap-sports-news-s-wire-only","27":"tag-product-32562-ap-online-other-sports-news","28":"tag-product-40780-ap-florida-sports-only","29":"tag-product-40822-ap-wisconsin-sports-only","30":"tag-rays-brewers-score","31":"tag-tampa","32":"tag-tampa-headlines","33":"tag-tampa-news","34":"tag-william-contreras"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}