(WNFL) – The Milwaukee Brewers allowed the New York Mets to score 5 times in the fifth inning en route to an 8-4 win over the Brewers in Game 1 of their best-of-3 National Wild Card Series.
Game 2 of the series will be played Wednesday night at American Family Field in Milwaukee.
The Brewers who took a 2-0 lead in the first inning on a single by William Contreras and a bases-loaded hit-by-pitch of Rhys Hoskins fell behind the Mets 3-2 during a rocky second inning by Brewers starting pitcher Willy Peralta.
Former Brewers player Jesse Winker tripled in 2 runs and then scored on a sacrifice fly for a 3-2 Mets lead.
Peralta who pitched just four innings talked about getting pulled after 4 innings.
He discussed his outing
Brewers manager Pat Murphy talked about pulling Peralta after 4 innings.
The Brewers got the lead back in the next inning off Mets starting pitcher Luis Severino on a run-scoring single by Jackson Chourio and an infield out by Contreras.
Things fell apart for the Brewers in the fifth inning.
Jose Iglesias drove in a run off Joel Payamps with an infield single, Mark Vientos singled in a pair of runs and J.D. Martinez did the same for an 8-4 lead. Two of the 5 runs where charged to Payamps with the other 3 charged to Aaron Ashby.
Luis Severino then pitched a scoreless fifth and sixth inning to save a tired Mets bullpen.
Jose Butto then pitched 2 hitless innings of relief for the Mets with Ryne Stanek pitching a scoreless ninth.
Peralta believes the Brewers can come back from this.
Rhys Hoskins said that this was an uncharacteristic game for the Brewers.
Frankie Montas will pitch for the Brewers on Wednesday.
Murphy talked about Montas getting the start in Game 2.
Montas was 7-11 with a 4,84 ERA while splitting the season with the Reds and the Brewers. Montas was 3-3 with a 4.55 ERA in 11 games with the Brewers.
Sean Manaea wll start for the Mets. Manaea was 12-6 with a 3.47 ERA this season.
The game can be heard tonight beginning at 6 with the pre-game and the first pitch at 6:38 on 1360 and 97.5 WTAQ.
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