Brewers’ Yelich has 13 HRs in 14 home games
MILWAUKEE – Christian Yelich is putting on the best performance at home since Macaulay Culkin got left behind at Christmas.
Yelich continued his love affair with Miller Park on Saturday night, pounding two more home runs to spark the Brewers to a 5-0 victory over the Dodgers, snapping a three-game losing streak in the process.
He has been incredible at home since coming to the Brewers in a trade with the Marlins before the 2018 season. In 88 games (86 starts) at Miller Park, he had slugged 35 home runs, including all 13 of his homers in the team’s first 13 home games this season. After going 0for-2
with two walks Sunday, Yelich had eight home runs in seven games on this homestand.
Those 13 home runs tied Prince Fielder’s franchise record for most in any month, set in May 2007. Yelich also has 31 RBI for March/April, another Brewers record.
Yelich’s homers off Dodgers starter Hyun-Jin Ryu accounted for the Brewers’ first two runs and directly led to the other three. With Lorenzo Cain on second with a two-out double in the seventh, the Dodgers intentionally walked the left-handed-hitting Yelich despite having a left-hander, Caleb Ferguson, on the mound. That move brought to the plate right-handed-hitting Ryan Braun, mired in a 3-for-38 slump. But Braun, who has a flair for the dramatic, made the Dodgers pay by crushing a three-run homer to left-center to break open the game. Braun’s homer was the 1,815th hit of his career, tying Cecil Cooper for third place on the franchise list.