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<\/p>\nMILWAUKEE \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
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Milwaukee Brewers’ David Hamilton (6) high-fives Brice Turang (2) following Turang’s two-run home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Tampa Bay Rays, Wednesday, April 1, 2026, in Milwaukee. Credit: AP\/Kayla Wolf<\/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
Up next<\/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 \u2014 Christian Yelich hit a go-ahead, two-run single in a six-run eighth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[81664,3817,135,3815,137,136,122],"class_list":["post-215163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-rays","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wires-bot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215163","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=215163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}