CINCINNATI — The Milwaukee Brewers set a single-season franchise report with their 14th straight victory Saturday. And, in step with current type, it wasn’t simple.
The key league-leading Brewers rallied for the second straight sport and beat the Cincinnati Reds 6-5 in 11 innings. This Milwaukee membership set a brand new benchmark — thus far — for consecutive victories, surpassing the 1987 staff that opened that season by successful its first 13 video games.
The Brewers will look so as to add to their streak within the collection finale in opposition to division rival Cincinnati on Sunday.
Milwaukee’s total report for consecutive wins is 16 video games, from 1986-87, once they received their final three video games in 1986 and their first 13 in 1987.
On Friday evening, the Brewers’ run gave the impression to be in jeopardy earlier than they rallied from seven runs down by way of two innings by scoring 9 unanswered runs in beating the Reds 10-8.
Milwaukee appeared to be in bother once more Saturday, however confirmed its resilience — for the second time in 24 hours — with the large blow being a pinch-hit, three-run homer within the eleventh by Andruw Monasterio.
“It’s a tremendous feeling,” mentioned Monasterio, who wears the No. 14. “I wasn’t prepared for like 14 to 14. … That’s superb.”
Monasterio was seemingly prepped for his showstopping and streak-extending second.
“(Supervisor) Pat Murphy requested me to be prepared three or 4 instances,” the 28-year-old infielder mentioned. “That was the fifth time he requested me to be prepared throughout the sport. He requested me within the seventh, ‘Are you prepared for an enormous second?’ I mentioned, ‘After all, yeah.’ However I didn’t comprehend it was going to occur like this.”
Milwaukee starter Quinn Priester mentioned his under-11-year-old staff went 49-0 and referred to as that enjoyable.
“However not as enjoyable as this,” he mentioned.
Priester mentioned the Brewers have been benefiting from each likelihood offered by opponents.
“We’ve simply been giving ourselves each alternative, after which definitely once we get further alternatives, we appear to take benefit each single time,” he mentioned. “You get your alternative, it’s time to go in and make an enormous swing, make an enormous pitch. When guys are getting their alternatives, we’re not timid, that’s for positive.”
The Brewers jumped to an early lead when Brice Turang doubled in a run within the second inning. The Reds bought solo homers from Ke’Bryan Hayes and Spencer Steer within the sixth for a 2-1 lead.
Because it turned out, the Reds helped Milwaukee preserve its successful streak alive because the Brewers scored on a throwing error by Cincinnati shortstop Elly De La Cruz within the ninth to tie the sport at 2-all.
And, the Brewers went forward within the tenth when Anthony Seigler scored on an error by left fielder Jake Fraley.
Cincinnati battled again within the backside of the tenth and tied it at 3-all on an RBI double by Hayes.
In the end, the Reds offered the Brewers with too many possibilities to proceed their successful methods as Monasterio belted a three-run shot within the eleventh — simply his second of the season after his first on July 3 in opposition to the New York Mets.
The Reds pushed again once more within the backside half, chopping the deficit with a sacrifice fly by Santiago Espinal and trimming their deficit to a run on Noelvi Marte’s ninth homer of the 12 months.
However Milwaukee prevailed when reliever Nick Mears bought Matt McLain to fly out to the warning monitor in right-center, ending the sport and lengthening the streak.
Milwaukee is now 34 video games over .500 at 78-44 and boasts a nine-game lead within the NL Central over the Chicago Cubs. Within the Nationwide League, the Brewers are eight video games higher than the East Division-leading Philadelphia Phillies (70-53).
