Rowdy Tellez’s single through the right side put runners on the corners. The rally started with a two-out strikeout of Luis Urías, who swung at a pitch far off the plate that sailed to the backstop, allowing him to reach first base. The Brewers scored three runs off Phillies reliever Ramon Rosso in the bottom of the sixth. Travis Jankowski batted for Nola with one down in the sixth and singled through the right side but Lauer induced Realmuto and Jean Segura to bounce into outs and it remained a 3-0 game. Realmuto for the second time to shut that down.īryce Harper drew a one-out walk in the Phillies fourth but the next hitter, Andrew McCutchen, bounced into an around-the-horn double play. He surrendered a leadoff single to Ronald Torreyes in the third and Nola bunted him up with one down but Lauer struck out J.T. That would be all the Brewers would get off Nola during his five-inning stint but Lauer was making a three-run lead look pretty good. View Gallery: Photos: Former Milwaukee Brewers catcher Ted Simmons Nola stopped the damage there by retiring Avisaíl García on a grounder to short and catching Omar Narváez looking at strike three on a pitch that actually was inside. He just put a ball in play but he was rewarded for it."Ĭhristian Yelich followed with a sharp grounder up the middle for an RBI single, advancing to second when the throw got away from catcher Rafael Marchan. Then Escy said, ‘I’m putting the ball in play.’ And he battled to do it. Nola made a couple good pitches to get ahead in the count. "That was the at-bat of the game, the at-bat I circled as the at-bat of the game," Counsell said. On that ninth pitch, Escobar sliced a drive down the left-field line that caromed sideways into the stands for a ground-rule, two-run double. Kolten Wong then lined a double into the right-field corner, moving Lauer to third.Įduardo Escobar fell behind in the count to Nola, 0-2, but went into battle mode, fouling off four two-strike pitches during what became a nine-pitch at-bat. Lauer also singled, his bounder up the middle defecting off diving shortstop Freddy Galvis’ glove. But that changed in the third inning despite Lorenzo Cain getting picked off first base by Nola after a leadoff single. The Brewers made some hard contact against Philadelphia starter Aaron Nola in the first two innings without anything to show for it. I thought he was almost overpowering at times tonight. "I thought he was in complete command of the game, complete control of hitters, complete control of counts. "Tonight was something special," manager Craig Counsell said. But his stretch of solid work goes back much farther, with a 1.85 earned run average (13 earned runs in 58⅓ innings) over his last 11 appearances. It was the second consecutive strong seven-inning outing for Lauer, who allowed just three hits and one run in a 5-1 loss in San Francisco last time out. More: Haudricourt: Ted Simmons will finally gets his day in Cooperstown. More: Brewers second baseman Kolten Wong, a new father, had divided focus last week More: He hasn't been up for long and his stay will be short, but Luke Maile has made an impact with the Brewers The magic number for clinching the division crown dropped to 12. With the triumph, the Brewers maintained an 11-game lead in the NL Central over Cincinnati, a 4-3 winner over the Chicago Cubs. Lauer allowed four harmless singles and walked only one while logging five strikeouts. The Brewers were swept in a four-game series in Philadelphia in May and were routed, 12-0, in the series opener Monday but left-hander Eric Lauer never let the visitors up for air while pitching seven shutout innings. That was the attitude the Milwaukee Brewers took Tuesday night at American Family Field and the result was a resounding 10-0 victory, the first time they topped the Phillies in six meetings this season. 27: 1 (Cardinals: Win, Brewers: Loss) NL Central clinched!Įntering the month, the Cardinals, Baseball-Reference and FanGraphs, two prominent baseball research websites, gave the Cardinals at least a 97% chance to make postseason and at least 91% chance to make it as the NL Central division winner.įollow this story daily over the next few weeks for updates on the Cardinals’ magic number.Watch Video: Brewers' Eric Lauer comes through and Christian Yelich is back in formĮnough with losing to the Philadelphia Phillies. 26: 3 (Cardinals: Off Day, Brewers: Off Day) 19: 7 (Cardinals: Off Day, Brewers: Lose) 17: 9 (Cardinals: Win Doubleheader, Brewers: Win) 15: 12 (Cardinals: Loss, Brewers: Off Day) 12: 14 (Cardinals: Off Day, Brewers: Off Day) 8: 17 (Cardinals: Loss, Brewers: Win Doubleheader) 1: 26 (Cardinals: Off Day, Brewers: Loss) Here’s a look at how the Cardinals’ magic number has fared deeper into September….
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