CHICAGO \u2014 Jake Bauers homered and drove in four runs, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 9-3 on Monday night in the first meeting this season between the longtime NL Central rivals.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 9-3 in the first meeting this season between the longtime NL Central rivals
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Christian Yelich went deep for the second straight day as Milwaukee used a 13-hit attack to improve to 9-2 in its last 11 games
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Andrew Vaughn had two hits and scored twice. Milwaukee pulled within a half-game of Chicago for the division lead
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The Brewers won the Central in 2025 for the third consecutive year and then eliminated the Cubs in a five-game NL Division Series<\/p>\n
Christian Yelich went deep for the second straight day as Milwaukee used a 13-hit attack to improve to 9-2 in its last 11 games. Andrew Vaughn had two hits and scored twice.<\/p>\n
Milwaukee pulled within a half-game of Chicago for the division lead. The Brewers won the Central in 2025 for the third consecutive year and then eliminated the Cubs in a five-game NL Division Series.<\/p>\n
Chicago lost for the seventh time in nine games. The Cubs had won 15 in a row at home for their longest win streak at Wrigley Field since an 18-game run in September 1935.<\/p>\n
Cubs left-hander Shota Imanaga (4-4) was tagged for eight runs and nine hits in 4 1\/3 innings in his worst start of the season. He allowed a total of eight earned runs over his previous five starts combined.<\/p>\n
Bauers hit an RBI single in Milwaukee\u2019s four-run fourth. He connected for his seventh homer in the fifth, a three-run drive to right that gave the Brewers an 8-0 lead.<\/p>\n
Bauers is batting .438 (14 for 32) with two homers and eight RBIs during a nine-game hitting streak.<\/p>\n
Dansby Swanson hit a two-run homer for the Cubs, who dropped two of three against the crosstown White Sox over the weekend. Michael Busch had two hits, including a run-scoring double.<\/p>\n
Brewers right-hander Brandon Sproat surrendered three runs and three hits in 4 2\/3 innings. Shane Drohan (2-1) replaced Sproat in the fifth and pitched 4 1\/3 innings of four-hit ball for the win.<\/p>\n
Up next<\/p>\n
Jacob Misiorowski (3-2, 2.12 ERA) starts on Tuesday night for Milwaukee, and fellow right-hander Ben Brown (1-1, 1.60 ERA) pitches for Chicago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHICAGO \u2014 Jake Bauers homered and drove in four runs, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2399],"tags":[556,560,1769,5,138,24,4245,161,4,169,185,558,1519],"class_list":["post-703083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-chicago-cubs","tag-app-sports","tag-app-top-stories","tag-associated-press","tag-baseball","tag-chicago","tag-chicago-cubs","tag-chicagocubs","tag-cubs","tag-mlb","tag-news","tag-sports","tag-top-stories","tag-wisconsin"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116601205757149596","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703083","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=703083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}