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Miami loses to the Brewers in extra innings, which is unfortunate………..
The Brewers suffered one of their most disappointing losses of the season, falling short of the lowly Miami Marlins 3-2 in 10 innings after blowing a 2-0 lead (that was 2-1 in the ninth) due to a string of unfortunate events, clumsy decisions, and dubious tactical choices on a night when Milwaukee might have lost another starting pitcher.
Milwaukee’s starting pitcher for this game, Joe Ross, barely lasted one inning. Andruw Monasterio started a great double play that allowed him to escape with nothing after giving up a hit and a walk. However, he was lifted from the game due to an apparent injury. Sophia Minnaert claims that he had been experiencing back pain for the preceding few days and had assumed he might pitch today. However, once he began pitching, the back pain flared again, and he was unable to pitch past the first inning. He was replaced in the bottom of the second inning by Jared Koenig.
Except for the two runners that Ross gave up in the first inning, both teams’ early pitching strengths were evident. Ryan Weathers, the Miami starter, allowed just one run through the first eleven Brewers batters he faced, when a sweeper got past him and struck Joey Ortiz in the back. After allowing a double play to erase a walk in his third inning, Koenig was three up, three down through his first two innings. However, his night came to an end with two outs in his fourth inning due to a two-out single by Jesús Sánchez. Joel Payamps relieved him and retired Jake Burger to complete the game.
Finally, in the fifth inning, Milwaukee’s offense found momentum when Monasterio, facing two outs and no one on, launched a solo home run to center field that cleared Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s reaching glove. Monasterio only had two hits this season, and it was his first that went for extra bases. After a double by Owen Miller, Joey Wiemer grounded out to finish the inning. The Brewers led 1-0 going into the bottom of the fifth.
Payamps returned for the fifth inning and used a 1-2-3 score to shut out the Marlins. Christian Yelich worked a one-out walk in the top of the sixth, stole second, and advanced to third on a throw into center field. After Joey Ortiz walked as well, things really started to get wild. Nick Fortes of the Marlins threw the ball back to Weathers, but Yelich was able to score on a “delayed steal” of home when he used Willy Adames in the right-handed batter’s box to screen Fortes and give himself a big jump. I doubt that I have ever truly witnessed something like this! Five and a half minutes later, Brewers 2, Marlins 0.
Hoby Milner pitched a spotless sixth inning to continue the surprising bullpen day. Despite Jackson Chourio walking to start the seventh, the Brewers were unable to score. Josh Bell was the leadoff hitter in the bottom of the inning, so Milner stayed on and walked him. Sánchez then followed with a sac bunt, which ended up being Milner’s final batter. Elvis Peguero took his position, and he made things worse for himself by walking Burger. The Marlins’ first run of the day was scored by Nick Gordon, who followed and snuck one into left field off of a diving Ortiz’s glove. However, Peguero came back and got Otto Lopez to ground into a double play to end the inning without any more problems.
In the eighth, the Marlins loaded up on Bryan Hudson, but he got the first two batters out, striking out Bryan De La Cruz and Chisholm before getting Bell to pop out. In the top of the ninth, Monasterio singled and pinch-hitter Jake Bauers sent a rocket down the right field line, putting the Brewers within striking distance. However, Bauers’ double got caught in the right field wall’s padding, forcing Monasterio—who would have easily scored—to return to third base. With the bases loaded, Blake Perkins entered the game as a pinch hitter and walked, loading the bases. William Contreras then hit a deep fly ball to right, but it struck out on the warning track.
For the first time this season, Trevor Megill failed to make a save when he was supposed to close. Gordon knocked a single into right (where Chourio was playing very deep—remember that), and he stole second to put himself in scoring position. He promptly retired Sánchez and Burger. Gordon scored when Lopez followed, was trapped and blooped a shot into right, but Chourio, who was still playing deep, was unable to reach it. Lopez also stole second, but with the game knotted at nine innings, Megill got out Vidal Bruján.
Tanner Scott, a closer, was added by Miami as an extra. Scott began the inning by walking Yelich, who was attempting to bunt. This season, walks have been Scott’s biggest pet peeve. Ortiz managed to successfully bunt, but it was on a 2-0 ball that was well within the strike zone. Given that Scott has been struggling to find the strike zone this season and that there are two on and no outs, one would wonder why it was necessary to bunt there. Adames, who didn’t look well today, was up with runners on second and third and an infield that was pulled in after that bunt. After he struck out, Gary Sánchez reached base and hit a pop fly that hung up long enough for Chisholm to reach center field.
Almost all of Milwaukee’s relievers had been utilized by now, so in the bottom of the frame, they had to turn to the struggling Mitch White. With one out, Josh Bell scored a base hit off a drawn-in Brewers infield thanks to some bunting and deliberate walk maneuvering.
This was an agonizing loss against a poor team, marked by a string of rough breaks (and the somewhat perplexing choice to stick with the hot-hitting Joey Ortiz bunt against a ferocious Tanner Scott while the struggling Adames were on deck) that marred a day when the team used up every last one of their best relievers (and saw excellent performances from nearly all of them). The possibility of losing Joe Ross, a another injury concern for the team hospital’s starting rotation wing, adds to the agony.
This was an agonizing loss against a poor team, marked by a string of rough breaks (and the somewhat perplexing choice to stick with the hot-hitting Joey Ortiz bunt against a ferocious Tanner Scott while the struggling Adames were on deck) that marred a day when the team used up every last one of their best relievers (and saw excellent performances from nearly all of them). The possibility of losing Joe Ross, a another injury concern for the team hospital’s starting rotation wing, adds to the agony.
The Brewers’ offensive star, Monasterio, finished 2-for-4 with a solo home run. Bauers hit the double that should have won the game, going 1 for 1 with it. Yelich has one theft at home and two steals overall. The Brewers received shutout innings (or close to it) from Joel Payamps, Elvis Peguero, Bryan Hudson, Joe Ross, and Jared Koenig. The first earned run charge against Hoby Milner since April 14 was made.