The Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday cruised to a 12-2 series-opening win over the Detroit Tigers on the road, here were the key factors in their victory.
Once the game started, it would not take long for the Brewers’ offense to get going.
In the bottom of the second inning, Milwaukee scored three runs. It began with the Brewers winning a challenge that turned into a single by Garrett Mitchell. Then, Luis Rengifo walked.
Subsequently, Sal Frelick singled to right field, scoring Mitchell and advancing Rengifo to second base. David Hamilton followed up Frelick’s single with a soft bunt in which he reached safely on while advancing Rengifo and Frelick.
After Blake Perkins struck out, Brice Turang continued his hot streak with a two-RBI line drive single to right field to cap off the three-run inning.
After going scoreless from the third through the sixth inning, the Brewers ramped up the offensive production again in the seventh and eighth innings.
Turang returned with another RBI single in the top of the seventh inning to make it a 4-1 game before William Contreras added an RBI single of his own to make it 5-1. In the top of the eighth, the Brewers proved to be more lethal by notching seven runs on six hits, two of which were back-to-back triples by Gary Sánchez and Garrett Mitchell to get things started.
Turang also notched his fourth RBI of the night by hitting a sacrifice fly ball to left field to score Hamilton. And Sánchez made his way back for another at-bat in which he connected on a sacrifice ground ball to score Contreras. By the time the Tigers got their third out, they were trailing 12-1.
The Brewers welcomed Kyle Harrison back to the mound after a wrist injury caused an extended absence between his last outing and this one. After a short stint on the mound, the bullpen collectively backed him up.
Harrison last pitched on April 11 in a 3-1 loss to the Washington Nationals in which he went 4 ⅓ innings while allowing five hits, two earned runs and a walk while striking out one of the 19 hitters he faced. On Tuesday, his pitch count was being monitored, and his night ended early.
Harrison went three innings and allowed four hits, three walks and one earned run while striking out three batters. He was replaced by Grant Anderson in the bottom of the fourth inning after walking Spencer Torkelson and allowing a single to Hao-Yu Lee.
Anderson was effective on the mound, going two innings while allowing one hit and striking out one batter. He was replaced by Trevor Megill in the bottom of the sixth inning, who struck out a batter and did not allow a hit, a walk or an earned run in his one inning of work.
Megill then handed the ball off to Aaron Ashby, who notched an inning of his own while striking out two batters and allowing two walks.
After Ashby, Jake Woodford finished the game. Despite some turbulence in the bottom of the ninth in which the Tigers scored three runs, Woodford and the Brewers were able to put it away.
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