The Milwaukee Brewers’ offense is playing on another planet right now, dropping 13 runs on the Cincinnati Reds for a wild 13-9 victory, and that’s *after* they put up 20 the night before. This team’s bats showed zero signs of slowing down against a beleaguered Reds pitching staff, just absolutely clobbering the ball from the jump.
The Early Barrage and Reds’ Rude Awakening
The scoring started early, just like you’d expect. Jackson Chourio led off the game with a walk, then Brice Turang blasted his 19th home run of the season, setting a new career high for himself. Boom, just like that, the Brewers were up 2-0. But they weren’t even close to done in that first inning! With two outs, William Contreras drew a walk, and then Garrett Mitchell absolutely crushed his 11th home run of the season, a truly mammoth shot into the second deck. That was the second two-run homer of the inning! It was 4-0 Brewers almost instantly, and you just knew the Reds had to be thinking, “Oh no, here we go again!”
Reds Fight Back, Brewers Punch Harder
Credit to the Reds’ offense, though, they actually managed to get some hard contact off Brewers starter Shane Drohan, unlike the night before. Eugenio Suarez, who got robbed of a homer last night, went pull side and lifted a dinger to left to finally get the Reds on the board. Then they answered again in the third on a double from Elly De La Cruz. But the real gut punch came in the fourth. Suarez walked, JJ Bleday doubled, and then Juan Brito, who was only hitting .197 coming into the day, slugged a three-run homer on an 0-2 pitch to unbelievably tie the game at 5-5! Drohan was pulled after 3.2 innings, giving up five hits and five earned runs. He even admitted, “I think I was 15 of 17 on first pitch strikes, I was getting in good counts, then just throwing terrible two-strike pitches.” What should have been a comfy Brewers lead was gone, just like that. But, the Brewers’ offense, being the absolute force it is, answered right back in the bottom of the fourth. With two outs, a rally started with a Jake Bauers walk, a Christian Yelich single, and then William Contreras launched his 17th home run of the season to snatch back an 8-5 lead. Fireworks, man, fireworks!
Never Say Die Bats Secure The W
And the Brewers were still not done. Not even close. They sent a whopping 10 men to the plate in the fifth inning! Cooper Pratt got things going with his third hit of the game, a single. That was followed by four consecutive base hits from Chourio, Turang, Bauers, and Yelich. Then, Contreras was intentionally walked to load the bases for Garrett Mitchell, who hit a grand slam last night, and he ripped a two-RBI double over the head of Hector Rodriguez in right. Mitchell finished just a triple shy of the cycle in this game, going 4-for-5 with 4 RBIs! Seriously, what a wild one!
This Brewers offense is an absolute firecracker right now, dropping 13 runs after 20 the night before? Unbelievable! But man, seeing that 4-0 lead vanish so fast, and letting a .197 hitter tie it up, that’s gonna keep some folks up at night. They got the W, but the pitching staff has some serious work to do if they want to keep riding this insane offensive wave!
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Originally reported by Yahoo Sports.
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