The Brewers left the tying run on third in the sixth. Milwaukee threatened to tie or pull back ahead on a few occasions. Rooker followed that up by launching a 1-1 pitch into the left-field seats. The balls he was fouling off were more middle away, and he got one more on the plate and was able to deposit it over the right-field fence.” You could see him getting closer and closer. “That's an at-bat that changes games,” Athletics manager Mark Kotsay said. Brown capped an 11-pitch at-bat with a three-run homer over the right-field wall to put the A's ahead for good. Oakland trailed 2-0 before before scoring four runs in the fourth off Freddy Peralta (5-6). Milwaukee's loss and Pittsburgh's 2-1 victory over the New York Mets caused the Brewers to fall a game behind the Pirates in the NL Central. I know some of the characters they’ve got over there, and they have some great character."Ĭhristian Yelich homered for the Brewers, who have lost four straight. “They’ve been getting their teeth kicked in all year in an embarrassing way when you look at overall record, but these are major league players. Pittsburgh: Head out for a two-city, six-game trip starting Tuesday at the Chicago Cubs.“It’s Major League Baseball, and from what I know about it, everybody is kind of an inch from the top and an inch from the bottom,” said Brewers bench coach Pat Murphy, who took over managerial duties for the day because Craig Counsell was attending his son's high school graduation. Max Scherzer (5-2, 3.71 ERA) will start in the opener against Luis Severino (0-1, 5.75). Mets: Begin a two-game Subway Series at home against the New York Yankees on Tuesday. “Absolutely we miss (Alonso),” Mets catcher Omar Narváez said. New York’s bullpen kept Pittsburgh close but the Mets - forced to play for at least the next three weeks without injured major league home run leader Pete Alonso - only reached third base twice against Keller and two relievers. The 36-year-old, who missed more than a month with a bone chip in his right elbow that caused excessive swelling, let the leadoff hitter reach base in four of the five innings he started, including Suwinski’s shot off the foul pole in right in the bottom of the fourth. New York (31-35) has lost eight of nine.Ĭarrasco, making his first start on normal four days’ rest this season, weaved in and out of danger during 4 2/3 innings in which he allowed two runs on six hits with three walks and a strikeout. Jeff McNeil hit his third home run of the season for New York but the Mets, with a record $355 million payroll, finished a 1-5 trip through Atlanta and Pittsburgh by struggling to generate much of anything against Keller. “The hits will come and I don’t know and I will look back and see where I’m at. “Just hit and someone runs for me, that’s a piece of cake,” he said. Probably not, though he joked he might play until 50 if MLB allows unlimited pinch runners. The ball died in the grass, giving him just enough time to beat the throw.īack then, McCutchen thought maybe 3,000 hits were on the table. McCutchen was just a 22-year-old kid on June 4, 2009, when he fisted an 0-2 pitch from New York starter Mike Pelfrey up the middle in the bottom of the first. That’s what made the moment when his 2,000th hit - a sharp single to left leading off the bottom of the first in a 2-1 win over New York on Sunday - so sweet. He vowed to appreciate his second stint in his adopted hometown more than he did his first. Peace arrived in January when McCutchen returned to Pittsburgh on a one-year deal. He bounced around from city to city and position to position. The magic he once summoned so regularly waned. Then, well, “baseball happened.” Pitchers adjusted. PITTSBURGH (AP) - If he’s being honest, Andrew McCutchen thought he’d have gotten to 2,000 hits long ago.ĭuring the Pittsburgh Pirates star’s run as one of the best players in the game in the early 2010s - a stretch in which electric centerfielder won an MVP and was an All-Star five times - the hits came so easily it seemed as if they’d never stop.
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