MILWAUKEE (AP) — Travis Bazzana hit a go-ahead solo homer in the seventh inning, Parker Messick pitched six effective innings and the Cleveland Guardians beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-2 on Thursday.<\/p>\n
David Fry and Kyle Manzardo also homered for the Guardians, who lost the first two games of the series.<\/p>\n
Messick (7-3) held the Brewers to two runs and four hits while striking out nine in his 96-pitch outing. Cade Smith got four outs for his 24th save in 26 opportunities.<\/p>\n
Bazzana\u2019s towering home run off Grant Anderson (1-3) in the seventh gave the Guardians a 3-2 lead. Cleveland tacked on a run in the inning on Drew Rom\u2019s bases-loaded wild pitch.<\/p>\n
The Brewers loaded the bases with two outs in the seventh, but Colin Holderman retired Andrew Vaughn, who worked a full count, to end the inning on a grounder. Milwaukee loaded the bases again in the eighth with two outs before Smith struck out Christian Yelich.<\/p>\n
Gary S\u00e1nchez\u2019s run-scoring single off Messick gave the Brewers a 1-0 lead in the second. The Brewers had a chance for more with two on when right fielder Kahlil Watson, making his major league debut, made a diving catch to end the inning.<\/p>\n
Fry\u2019s fourth home run of the season tied it at 1 in the third.<\/p>\n
The Brewers took the lead in the fourth when S\u00e1nchez walked, moved to third on Blake Perkins\u2019 double and scored on Cooper Pratt\u2019s sacrifice fly.<\/p>\n
The Guardians pulled even again in the sixth on Manzardo\u2019s homer off Joel Kuhnel.<\/p>\n
Shane Drohan, making his fifth start, gave up three hits and one run in five innings. He struck out three and walked three.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Guardians: Tanner Bibee (2-7, 3.96 ERA) takes the mound Friday at Houston vs. Tatsuya Imai (3-3, 6.43).<\/p>\n
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Brewers: RHP Jacob Misiorowski (8-2, 1.34) will start Friday at Atlanta against RHP Bryce Elder (5-4, 3.15)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MILWAUKEE (AP) — Travis Bazzana hit a go-ahead solo homer in the seventh inning, Parker Messick pitched six…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":712982,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-712981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=712981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=712981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=712981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=712981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}