Chase Anderson took a no-hitter into the eighth inning and finished with 8.2 strong innings to lift the Milwaukee Brewers over the Chicago Cubs 4-2 on Tuesday night in Milwaukee.
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Guerra, speaking through translator Carlos Brizuela, said the speed variance between his splitter and fastball is just enough.
In last night’s 13 inning game, the Cubs didn’t score a run until the 9th inning. “It’s hard and late movement”.
“If this was meant to be, you’ve got to take advantage of it now”, Guerra said.
Ian Kinsler and J.D. Martinez clubbed back-to-back homers during a seven-run, seventh-inning outburst and Detroit won its third straight by overpowering Minnesota at Comerica Park. “We had opportunities, but we could not cash in”. The last Brewers pitcher to throw a complete-game one-hitter was CC Sabathia on August 31, 2008, in a 7-0 win over the Pirates. He gave up a leadoff homer to Dexter Fowler in the first inning and an RBI single to Miguel Montero in the second but just three hits and two walks in his final five innings. The minor league system is unique in that nearly every player spends at least a couple of seasons there, taking years to contribute at the big league level. Then after Scooter Gennett led off the Brewers’ sixth with a single, Nieuwenhuis homered off the facing of the second deck in right to give Milwaukee its first lead of the day at 4-2. “He pitched well, but I was not displeased with our at-bats”.
Jonathan Lucroy hit a solo homer and Chris Carter added a two-run double to help Anderson end a five-game losing streak and improve to 2-5.
Cubs right-hander John Lackey looks to find some rare success on the road – he has a 2.12 ERA in four home starts this season but 5.79 in three road outings.
Thornburg left no doubt that winning the series from the Cubs meant a lot to the rebuilding Brewers. It’s the most by a Brewers pitcher this year and the way things have been going will likely stand as the high water mark for a long time.
He will try to cool off Ben Zobrist, who is 20 for 40 with 13 runs scored and walked 11 times in 12 games. The Cubs scored a run in the ninth to send it to extra innings tied at 1-1.
Brewers: LF Ryan Braun missed his second consecutive game with back stiffness. The 68-year-old Alderson said he doesn’t expect his illness to curtail his duties, although he has declined to reveal the type of cancer he has. Counsell said that Braun’s right wrist, which kept him out of two games over the weekend, was fine….RF Domingo Santana was scratched due to right shoulder soreness and replaced by Ramon Flores…. Manager Craig Counsell that said RHP Matt Garza (right lat) and RHP Corey Knebel (left oblique), who are both on the disabled list, could throw off the mound sometime this week. That usage reflects his usage from last season’s first half, a very successful half for Hammel.
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– In Tuesday’s best pitching matchup, the Mets’ Noah Syndergaard outdueled the Nationals’ Max Scherzer in New York’s 2-0 win.
