![]() ![]() He needed just three pitches, the last of which was a burrowing sinker that Marte pounded into the ground to Brice Turang at second base for a double play. A ground ball that should have been an inning-ending double play was booted by Anderson at third, and then Milner hit Nimmo with a two-strike pitch to load the bases.Ĭounsell summoned another pitcher throwing for the fifth time in six days, Elvis Peguero. Hoby Milner, who spearheaded the charge to take the train, took over in the seventh, pitching for the fifth time in six days. ![]() Nonetheless, it gave the Brewers a lead the bullpen wouldn’t relinquish. McFarland, Brian Anderson, who also caught the subway, narrowly missed a go-ahead grand slam with a sacrifice fly to the warning track in right-center. When the Brewers loaded the bases with one out in the seventh against reliever T.J. After Milwaukee stranded six runners through the first five innings, Victor Caratini blasted a two-run homer to right-center to tie the game at 2-2. In the sixth, the Brewers offense finally broke through against Mets starter Max Scherzer. With the bases loaded and two outs in the bottom of the ninth, Williams did what he does best, making critical pitches to strike out Starling Marte and give the Brewers three wins in the four-game set.įirst on the mound for the Brewers was Adrian Houser, one of Milwaukee’s subway seven, who in a fret over getting to the ballpark in time while in the thick of standstill traffic caused by President Joe Biden’s visit to New York City exited the bus in the middle of the road and navigated the Blue and Purple lines to Flushing.īack-to-back home runs off Houser from Brett Baty and Brandon Nimmo in the top of the third staked the Mets to a 2-0 lead.īut Houser settled in from there, allowing three singles the rest of the way to turn in a quality start with 6 two-run innings in his first start since June 9. Lifted by a cavalcade of arms who began their day Thursday by hopping off a team bus that was gridlocked in Manhattan traffic, the Brewers picked up a series win over the New York Mets with a 3-2 victory.ĭevin Wiliams, pitching for the fourth time in five days, picked up the save in dicey fashion. Many of them even rode the subway to work, too. NEW YORK – The Milwaukee Brewers pitching staff morphed into true New Yorkers this week at Citi Field, putting in a full day’s worth of work, then, as tired as they may have been from doing so, headed back out and did it again the next day. ![]()
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