With a win over the Red Sox, the Brewers still haven't lost consecutive games all year
A losing streak? That's a foreign concept around 1 Brewers Way this year.
Following a series-opening loss the night before, the Milwaukee Brewers picked up the pieces with a strong start from Wade Miley, another Rowdy Tellez homer against the Boston Red Sox and a 5-4 win Saturday at American Family Field.
The Brewers still haven’t dropped consecutive games this year. It's late April.
BOX SCORE: Brewers 5, Red Sox 4
Consecutive doubles to the opposite field from William Contreras and Brian Anderson put the Brewers in front, 1-0, in the second.
Tellez’s seventh homer of the season, a no-doubter to right-center, came an inning later and with two outs, scoring Christian Yelich after he led off the frame with a single.
Tellez entered the day with the best OPS in baseball history against the Red Sox (minimum 100 plate appearances) with a mark of 1.183. That only went up Saturday as he socked his 14th career homer in 110 at-bats against Boston.
The Red Sox, though, would twice erase a three-run deficit starting in the fifth inning with Yu Chang’s two-run homer with two outs off Wade Miley.
Joey Wiemer’s spectacular leaping catch on the warning track in center to spear an Alex Verdugo line drive one batter after Chang’s homer marked the end of Miley’s night. The lefty pitched well, going five innings and allowing two runs on four hits with one walk and three strikeouts, but with three batted balls of over 100 mph in his final inning of work, the Brewers went to the bullpen.
Joel Payamps took over in the sixth – staked out to another three-run lead after a Yelich RBI double scored Blake Perkins following the latter’s first big-league hit and a run-scoring double play from Tellez – and the score quickly tightened once again as another two-run blast, this time from Rafael Devers, cut the Brewers’ lead to one.
Devers came up in a big spot two innings later in the eighth but was unable to come through. With the tying run on second and two down in the eighth, Hoby Milner struck out the American League home run leader with a sinker at the knees.
Devin Williams pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the save.
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This article originally appeared on Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Brewers defeat Red Sox behind Wade Miley and Rowdy Tellez
