Milwaukee 11, Pittsburgh 2
When: 4:05 PM ET, Saturday, July 3, 2021
Where: PNC Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Temperature:
77°
Umpires:
Home -
Junior Valentine, 1B -
CB Bucknor, 2B -
Chad Fairchild, 3B -
Kerwin Danley
Attendance:
17451
By Field Level Media
Omar Narvaez had a career-high five hits, Avisail Garcia drove in five runs and Jace Peterson drove in four more Saturday to help the visiting Milwaukee Brewers blast the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-2 for their 11th straight win.
Milwaukee starter Eric Lauer (3-3) pitched 6 1/3 innings, allowing one run and four hits, with four walks and four strikeouts.
Ben Gamel homered and Jared Oliva hit an RBI single for the Pirates, who have lost six in a row.
Pittsburgh starter Cody Ponce (0-2) recorded just five outs before leaving with right arm soreness. He gave up five runs and six hits, with three walks and three strikeouts.
Christian Yelich drew a one-out walk in the first for Milwaukee. An out later, Narvaez singled. Garcia drove in Yelich with a double for a 1-0 lead. Peterson followed with a double to drive in Narvaez and Garcia to make it 3-0.
In the second with two outs, Yelich hit a ground-rule double. Willy Adames walked, then Narvaez's pop-up to shallow left dropped in, allowing Yelich to score. Garcia singled in Adames for a 5-0 lead, leading to Ponce's exit.
Pittsburgh broke through in the bottom of the second. Gamel hit a one-out bunt single. An out later, Phillip Evans walked. Oliva, with his first major league RBI, drove in Gamel with a single to cut it to 5-1.
In the sixth, Yelich again got things going, this time with a leadoff walk. One out later, Narvaez singled, moving Yelich to third. Peterson's two-out single drove in Yelich for a 6-1 Milwaukee lead. Peterson stole second and Keston Hiura walked to load the bases. A wild pitch by reliever Chris Stratton brought in Narvaez to make it 7-1.
Against Kyle Keller in the eighth, Adames doubled, went to third on another Narvaez single and scored on an error by Adam Frazier. Narvaez scored to make it 9-1 when Peterson reached on a single.
Gamel hit his fourth homer of the season, to right, in the eighth.
Garcia had an RBI double and Peterson a sacrifice fly in the ninth to push it to 11-2.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Milwaukee |
|
Pittsburgh |
Eric Lauer
|
Player |
Cody Ponce
|
Win |
W/L |
Loss |
6.1 |
IP |
1.2 |
4 |
Strikeouts |
3 |
4 |
Hits |
6 |
1.42 |
ERA |
27.00 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
Milwaukee
|
16 |
0 |
21 |
.372 |
32 |
14 |
9 |
9 |
2 |
0 |
Pittsburgh
|
7 |
1 |
10 |
.206 |
17 |
9 |
2 |
4 |
0 |
1 |