Joey Ortiz and Christian Yelich made sure the Brewers didn’t waste a strong start from Logan Henderson, and Milwaukee used that combo to edge the Mets 4-3 and take the series finale.
Ortiz was everywhere. He finished 3-for-3 with a double, a triple, a walk, two runs scored and two RBI.
Yelich matched the moment, going 2-for-5 with a triple and two RBI. Between them, they drove in all four Brewers runs and accounted for five of Milwaukee’s nine hits.
The game opened quietly enough. Henderson struck out three in a scoreless first, and Christian Scott matched him by keeping the Brewers off the board in the bottom half. Then Marcus Semien broke through in the top of the second, launching a solo homer on a four-seamer that caught too much of the plate.
Milwaukee answered right away in the bottom of the inning. Garrett Mitchell drew a leadoff walk, Andrew Vaughn moved him to third with a single, and after Jake Bauers popped up and Cooper Pratt struck out, Ortiz came through with two outs.
He lifted a fly ball over Brett Baty in right field, and the Mets outfielder took a poor route to it. Baty started almost straight back on a ball that landed about fifteen feet closer to the foul pole than he expected, then had to veer left at the last second and still couldn’t get there as it bounced off the warning track.
Ortiz ended up at third with a triple, Mitchell and Vaughn scored, and the Brewers had a 2-1 lead.
Yelich followed with a line-drive single to left that brought Ortiz home and pushed Milwaukee ahead 3-1. By then, the Brewers were hitting .500 with runners in scoring position.
Henderson mostly settled in after that, allowing just one more hit until Baty got him again in the fifth with a solo shot that trimmed the lead to 3-2. Milwaukee didn’t answer in the fifth, but it did in the sixth.
Ortiz hit a ground ball past third that got trapped under the tarp along the line, turning into a ground-rule double that still allowed him to score. He was back on the bases only briefly before Yelich ripped a line drive off the center-field wall for a triple, bringing Ortiz home again and restoring a two-run cushion.
Henderson’s final line was a strong one: five innings, two runs, three other hits allowed, nine strikeouts and no walks. Pat Murphy summed it up after the game by saying, “I’ve seen him better,” though two runs and nine strikeouts is a pretty good place to be if that’s the standard for improvement.
The bullpen handled the middle innings from there. Aaron Ashby threw two hitless frames and struck out four while walking one, and Abner Uribe worked around two hits in a scoreless eighth.
Trevor Megill made the ninth more interesting than Brewers fans are used to lately. He walked Tyrone Taylor to start the inning, then watched Semien move him to second on a groundout. Luis Torrens then sent a hard liner to right, but Luis Lara was positioned perfectly for the second out.
With one out left, Francisco Alvarez singled into left to score Taylor. Jackson Chourio chose not to test the throw home and instead threw behind Alvarez, keeping the tying run at first.
A.J. Ewing followed with a ground ball to the left side that likely would have been a hit if the Brewers’ third baseman had not been Joey Ortiz.
Megill allowed a run for the first time in his last fourteen appearances, but he still finished the job and earned the save. Milwaukee took two of three from the Mets, gets tomorrow off, and then opens a third straight three-game home set against the Rockies at American Family Field. First pitch Friday is set for 3:10 p.m.
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