Jake Bauers hit a three-run homer and Kyle Harrison, facing his former team, matched his career high with 12 strikeouts as the Milwaukee Brewers posted an 8-3 victory over the visiting San Francisco Giants on Tuesday.
Harrison (7-1) took a shutout into the sixth inning before allowing a two-out solo homer to Willy Adames. He allowed a run on four hits and two walks in 5 2/3 innings. Adames’ ninth homer snapped Harrison’s streak of 23 consecutive scoreless innings.
Christian Yelich and Brice Turang each had two hits and two RBIs for the Brewers, who have won the first two games of the four-game series and are 7-1 in the past eight contests.
San Francisco starter Trevor McDonald (2-3) allowed three runs on five hits in five innings, striking out four and walking three. The Giants took their seventh loss in eight games.
The Giants rallied within 4-3 in the eighth with two runs against the Milwaukee bullpen. Luis Arraez hit a leadoff doubled against Aaron Ashby. Abner Uribe relieved and got two outs before allowing three consecutive singles, with pinch hitters Bryce Eldridge and Jung Hoo Lee each driving in a run.
The Brewers answered with four runs in the bottom half off Tristan Beck. Garrett Mitchell walked to open, Sal Frelick singled and both runners advanced on a sacrifice bunt. Yelich’s two-out, two-run single made it 6-3. Jackson Chourio followed with a run-scoring double, and Turang added an RBI single.
Bauers staked Harrison to a 3-0 lead, belting his team-leading 10th homer with two outs in the first off McDonald.
The Brewers made it 4-1 in the seventh after Sam Hentges issued consecutive one-out walks to David Hamilton and Yelich. Turang delivered a two-out RBI single off Caleb Kilian.
McDonald was on the verge of escaping a first-inning jam. Yelich and Chourio opened the frame with consecutive walks. McDonald retired the next two hitters before Bauers sent a 2-2 pitch 412 feet to center.
