Field Level Media
Jul 30, 2022
Hunter Renfroe, Omar Narvaez and Tyrone Taylor homered for the visiting Milwaukee Brewers in a 9-4 win against the Boston Red Sox on Saturday afternoon.
Rowdy Tellez had three hits, an RBI and scored a run, and Christian Yelich, Andrew McCutchen and Kolten Wong joined Narvaez in having two hits and a run scored for the Brewers, who have won four straight and seven of eight since the All-Star break.
Brewers starter Eric Lauer (7-3) allowed one run and four hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked three.
Boston starter Nick Pivetta (8-8) allowed four runs and nine hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked two.
Christian Arroyo had three hits and scored a run, and Christian Vazquez and Jaylin Davis each had two hits, an RBI and a run scored for the Red Sox, who have lost seven of nine since the All-Star break.
Tellez drove in Yelich with a slow roller down the third base line that got into left field for a single, giving the Brewers a 1-0 lead after the first inning.
Narvaez blasted a solo homer into the Boston bullpen in right-center field in the second inning to stretch the lead to 2-0. It was his fourth blast of the season.
Arroyo tripled into the right-field corner with one out in the second and scored on a single by Davis to trim the lead to 2-1.
Renfroe, who hit 31 home runs for the Red Sox last season, hit his 18th of the season in the fifth inning with a runner aboard to stretch the lead to 4-1.
Wong drove in Tellez with a sacrifice fly in the seventh to make it 5-1.
The Red Sox came back with three runs in the seventh on singles by Davis, Jarren Duran, Vazquez, and Xander Bogaerts, followed by a sacrifice fly by J.D. Martinez that cut the lead to 5-4.
The Brewers got a run back in the eighth on a sacrifice fly by Adames to make it 6-4, and then tacked on three more in the ninth.
Luis Urจชas drove in the first with an RBI double and then scored on a passed ball before Taylor went deep for the 11th time to make it 9-4.
--Field Level Media