(247NEWSSOURCE/LEARFIELD) – The Brewers have won back-to-back games against the Rangers following a 3-1 victory from American Family Field.
Joey Ortiz blasted a solo homer in the fifth inning to break a 1-1 deadlock.
Brewers manager Pat Murphy said he didn’t know what to expect when they first acquired Ortiz.
And what does Murphy know now?
Bryse Wilson earned the win with 6 innings of relief as the Brew Crew have won three straight games.
Wilson said he had it going Tuesday night.
Wilson added it was one of his best performances of the season.
Wilson gave up just 3 hits. He walked no one and struck out 6.
Milwaukee is still first in the NL Central at 47-and-33 and will go for the series sweep this afternoon with the pre-game starting at 12:35 on 1440 and 101.9 WNFL.
Notes: The Brewers are a season-high 14 games over .500 for the second time this season (also, 44-30 on 6/19)…..Milwaukee secured its eighth consecutive home series win to move to 9-2-1 in series play at home…..the Brewers are 19-5 in their last 24 home games and 24-12 overall at American Family Field…..Milwaukee has won 5 consecutive games against Texas and 7 of its last 8 contests dating back to 2019…..the Brewers are 23-14 in Interleague Play this season…..since 2022, Milwaukee is 66-37 (.641) during Interleague Play, trailing only the Dodgers (57-28, .671) for the best mark in the majors…..Brewers pitchers did not issue a walk in a game for the seventh time this season (last, 6/23 at San Diego).
First time for everything: Hoby Milner (2ip, 2h, 1r, 1er, 2k) made his first career start after 269 relief appearances…..he became the 13th pitcher to start for the Brewers this season, tied with the Marlins for the most in the majors…..Milner’s last start came with Triple-A Durham (Rays) on 8/26/18 at Norfolk.
Now that’s a long reliever: Bryse Wilson (6ip, 3h, 0r, 0bb, 4k) worked 6.0 scoreless innings out of the bullpen, matching the longest relief appearance of his
career (also, 6ip on 9/7/22 vs. New York-NL with Pittsburgh)…..Wilson became the first Brewers pitcher to work at least 6.0 innings
out of the bullpen since Colin Rea (6ip) on 10/2/21 at Los Angeles-NL…..he is the first Brewers pitcher to have a relief outing of 6.0+
innings since Dave Stapleton (6.2ip) on 9/26/87 vs. Boston…..it marked the third time in his career and second time this season he
pitched at least 6.0 scoreless innings (last, 6ip on 5/6/24 at Kansas City)
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