Burnes fired up, Mets no match
Brewers ace allows 2 runs in 6 innings, gets plenty of runs
Corbin Burnes bounced back from his two shortest outings of the season to pitch six innings of tworun ball, Willy Adames got two of his three hits in a seven-run fifth and the Milwaukee Brewers routed the New York Mets 10-2 on Wednesday night for their second win in 11 games.
Milwaukee’s big night gave manager Craig Counsell his 564th victory with the Brewers, breaking the franchise record. Counsell, the longest-tenured manager in the National League, passed Phil Garner, who managed 1,180 games for the team from 1992-99.
New York’s nine-game home winning streak ended.
Burnes (4-4) entered with a 6.75 ERA over his previous two outings and had allowed eight runs in eight innings in losses to San Diego and Philadelphia. But the reigning NL Cy Young Award winner was in control throughout. He yielded five hits, including Jeff Mcneil’s homer in the fourth and RBI single in the sixth, while striking out eight and walking none.
Burnes fanned Francisco Lindor twice and retired NL RBI leader Pete Alonso all three times, getting the slugger on a pair of foul popups before striking him out in the sixth.
Milwaukee scored twice in the first, then poured it on in the fifth against David Peterson (3-1) and relievers Jake Reed and Trevor Williams.
Adames doubled in the first and scored on a tworun single by Luis Urias. Adames later started Milwaukee’s biggest inning of the season with a single and scored on a basesloaded walk to Victor Caratini after advancing to second on an errant pickoff toss by Reed.
Adames also hit a tworun single to give the Brewers a 9-1 lead.