Hiura gets call-up, delivers game-winner for Brewers
Keston Hiura celebrated his return to the majors by delivering the huge blow that capped the Milwaukee Brewers' biggest comeback of the season.
Not bad for someone who spent much of the previous day battling the flu.
Hiura (UC Irvine) hit a two-run homer off Jesse Chavez in the bottom of the 11th inning as the Brewers rallied from a four-run deficit to beat the Atlanta Braves 7-6 on Wednesday. The Brewers had tied it with two outs in the ninth on an RBI triple from Kolten Wong off Braves closer Kenley Jansen, who blew a save for the first time in 10 opportunities..
“I can't wait for some sleep, that's for sure,” said Hiura, who was officially called up from Triple-A Nashville before the game after arriving in Milwaukee on Tuesday. “I tossed and turned last night.”
Although Hiura was batting .216 with two homers when he was sent to the minors earlier this month, he had sizzled lately in the minors. Hiura batted .421 with a .522 on-base percentage, three homers and 10 RBIs in 19 at bats with Nashville.
After going hitless in his first four at-bats, Hiura led off the 11th by sending a 1-2 sinker from Chavez (0-1) over the center-field wall that scored automatic runner Jace Peterson.
Both teams scored in the 10th, and the Braves took a 6-5 lead when Travis d'Arnaud led off the top of the 11th with a single to bring home automatic runner Ozzie Albies.
Atlanta had grabbed a 4-0 lead when Austin Riley and Marcell Ozuna hit back-to-back homers off Corbin Burnes with two outs in the third.
Max Scherzer pulled himself from a start with discomfort in his left side before New York finished off a victory over visiting St. Louis.
Pete Alonso homered and drove in four runs for the Mets (25-14), who improved to 13-1 following a loss.
Alonso snapped a 2-all tie with an RBI single off rookie reliever Jake Walsh (0-1) in a four-run fifth.
The Mets broke open a 6-4 game with a five-run eighth capped by Alonso's three-run homer off T.J. McFarland.
Nolan Arenado hit a tworun homer for the Cardinals. Albert Pujols got two hits to pass Eddie Collins for 10th place on the career list with 3,314, including an early two-run single off Scherzer (5-1).
The three-time Cy Young Award winner left with two outs in the sixth and a 1-1 count on Pujols. He will have an MRI today.
With two runners on, Scherzer threw a slider in the dirt and immediately signaled to the New York bench that he was done.
C.J. Cron hit a tiebreaking tworun homer in a three-run eighth inning, and Colorado stopped its 12-game losing streak against San Francisco by rallying past the visiting Giants.
Logan Webb retired 16 straight batters in pursuit of becoming the major leagues' first six-game winner and led 3-2 when pinchhitter Connor Joe singled leading off the eighth.
José Álvarez (1-1) relieved, Charlie Blackmon sacrificed and Yonathan Daza extended his hitting streak to 11 games with an RBI single.
Cron followed with a 454foot drive to left on a 3-1 changeup for his 10th homer.
Isaac Paredes homered twice against his former teammates to double his career big league total, helping host Tampa Bay beat Detroit on an afternoon Eduardo Rodriguez did not make it out of the first inning.
Rodriguez (1-3) lasted just one out and averaged 91.9 mph for his fastball, 2.4 mph below his season average, and left the mound with discomfort in his left side.
Rodriguez allowed three runs, four hits and two walks. After signing a $77 million, five-year contract, he has a 4.38 ERA.
Drew Rasmussen (4-1) allowed four hits in five shutout innings with seven strikeouts and no walks, improving to 4-0 with a 1.01 ERA in his last five starts.
Paredes, traded by the Tigers for Austin Meadows on April 5, hit solo home runs in the third off Rony García and in the eighth against Wily Peralta.
Zack Wheeler struck out nine over seven innings, Rhys Hoskins homered and host Philadelphia beat San Diego.
Wheeler (2-3), who lost his first three starts of the season, allowed four hits and walked none.
Hoskins helped spoil Blake Snell's first start of the season in his return from a groin injury.
Snell lasted 3 2/3 innings and gave up three hits, three runs and struck out five in his first appearance since Sept. 12, 2021.
Hoskins' solo shot in the third made it 2-0. Odubel Herrera chased Snell with an RBI double in the fourth.
Nick Pivetta pitched a two-hitter, Xander Bogaerts homered and Boston beat Houston at Fenway Park.
It marked the first complete game by a Red Sox pitcher since Chris Sale on June 5, 2019, at Kansas City.
Kiké Hernández and Christian Vázquez added RBI singles for Boston, which took two of three from the team that beat it in the ALCS last season.
Pivetta (2-4) gave up a leadoff homer to Jose Altuve, but retired the next 18 batters. The Astros didn't get their second hit until Michael Brantley led off the seventh with a double.
Pivetta finished with eight strikeouts and didn't issue a walk.
Houston's Luis Garcia (32) lasted four innings, allowing five runs (three earned).
Gerrit Cole outpitched Jordan Lyles in a duel of veteran right-handers, and visiting New York squeezed past Baltimore to clinch its ninth straight series win.
Gleyber Torres hit an RBI double and scored in a threerun first that propelled the Yankees to their ninth win in their last 10 games.
Cole (4-0) went seven innings, allowing two runs and six hits with five strikeouts.