Gary Sanchez hit a two-run home run and William Contreras had two hits and two RBI in the visiting Milwaukee Brewers\u2019 8-5 series-clinching win Sunday against the Kansas City Royals at Kauffman Stadium in Kansas City.<\/p>\n
Brewers starting pitcher Kyle Harrison (1-0) picked up the win as he scattered three hits, gave up two runs, walked two and struck out six. Kris Bubic (1-1) took the loss for the Royals as he surrendered four hits, four runs, three walks and recorded eight strikeouts.<\/p>\n
Trevor Megill picked up his third save of the season. Contreras was 2-for-3 with a run, two RBI and two walks for Milwaukee.<\/p>\n
Maikel Garcia was 2-for-5 with a run, a two-run home run and three RBI and Vinnie Pasquantino was 2-for-5 with two RBI for the Royals.<\/p>\n
In the first inning, Contreras coaxed a two-out walk. Cleanup hitter, Christian Yelich lined a full-count fastball down the left field line for an RBI triple as the Brewers took a 1-0 lead.<\/p>\n
One hitter later, Sanchez also worked the count full before launching a high fastball to straightaway left field for a two-run homer as Milwaukee extended its lead to 3-0. All three of the Brewers\u2019 runs came with two outs.<\/p>\n
The Royals cut the Brewers\u2019 lead to 3-2 in the bottom of the third when Garcia hit a two-run home run into deep left field.<\/p>\n
Later that inning, Milwaukee right fielder Luis Matos scooped up Vinnie Pasquantino\u2019s single and fired off a one-hop throw to Contreras whose swipe tag caught a sliding Bobby Witt Jr. on the arm, preserving the one-run lead.<\/p>\n
In the top of the fourth, the Brewers again used a two-out rally to push their lead to 4-2. Brandon Lockridge walked and came all the way around from first base to score with a head-first slide on a Perkins double to left field.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee scored two runs in the top of the seventh as Contreras\u2019 single up the middle scored Brice Turang and Luis Rengifo for a 6-2 lead.<\/p>\n
Garcia\u2019s RBI single and Pasquantino\u2019s two-RBI single in the bottom of the seventh cut the Brewers\u2019 lead to 6-5.<\/p>\n
But Jake Bauers\u2019 RBI double and Lockridge\u2019s bloop RBI single pushed Milwaukee\u2019s lead to 8-5 in the top of the ninth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gary Sanchez hit a two-run home run and William Contreras had two hits and two RBI in the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2387],"tags":[5,936,2123,55,2596,2595,4,252],"class_list":{"0":"post-666227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-kansas-city-royals","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-kansas","10":"tag-kansas-city","11":"tag-kansas-city-royals","12":"tag-kansascity","13":"tag-kansascityroyals","14":"tag-mlb","15":"tag-royals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116357329311196868","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=666227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}