Once Corbin Burnes got through the first inning, the Cy Young Award winner held down the fort until the Milwaukee Brewers delivered two big swings in a 4-1 victory over the San Diego Padres at Petco Park Tuesday night. San Diego struck for a run on three hits in the first inning against Burnes. The run scored on a double play groundout to prevent an ever faster start. Burnes settled in from there allowing only two more hits through six innings to even his record at 2-2.
Mark Brosseau got the game even against another former Cy Young winner when he took Blake Snell deep for a solo home run in the top of the 5th. After a couple of runners reached in the sixth, Snell was pulled for reliever Craig Stammen and Tyrone Taylor promptly greeted him with a three run shot to left field to give the Crew the 4-1 lead.
Hoby Millner, Trevor Gott and Devin Williams each pitched a scoreless inning of relief as Williams earned his third save of the year.
The Brewers moved to 27-16 on the season and with help from the Toronto Blue Jays, who beat the Cardinals 8-1, increased their lead over St. Louis to three games in the NL Central. Aaron Ashby will start the rubber game of the series in San Diego against Yu Darvish Wednesday afternoon before Milwaukee heads to Busch Stadium for a big four game series against the second place Cardinals.
Pre-game coverage begins at 2:35 PM with the first pitch at 3:10 PM on WNFL.
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