CINCINNATI – The Brewers’ No. 1 fan doesn’t watch each inning of each sport, or, actually, many innings in any respect. However Robin Yount nonetheless checks the scores each day and checks in on the membership every time he can, like when he went to the bar for a chilly drink throughout a Hawaiian trip in July and located the Brewers and Dodgers on tv.
Yount sat down and watched the sport. The Brewers received, so he watched from the identical spot on the similar pool bar the next day. They received once more.
They’ve been doing lots of that currently, similar to Yount and the 1987 Brewers did after they began that season with a franchise-record 13-game successful streak. However now there’s a brand new “Crew Streak” in Milwaukee’s baseball lore after a wild Saturday night time at Nice American Ball Park.
The membership that refuses to lose tied the Reds within the ninth inning, scored once more within the tenth after which noticed the most recent unlikely hero emerge when backup infielder Andruw Monasterio got here off the bench within the eleventh to hammer a three-run dwelling run for a 6-5 victory, pushing the longest successful streak within the Majors this season to 14 video games.
Monasterio hit 5 dwelling runs over elements of the previous three seasons within the Majors previous to Saturday, together with one this season. It doesn’t appear to matter with this crew.
“Proper now, they’re nationwide information. All people is speaking concerning the Brewers,” stated Yount, who performed all 20 of his Corridor of Fame seasons in Milwaukee. “I get texts from associates everywhere in the nation saying, ‘How about your Brewers?’ I feel it’s charming everyone.”
It’s the way in which the Brewers are doing it that has a nationwide viewers notably captivated – a day by day tutorial on placing the ball in play.
They scored their first run when Brice Turang’s catchable line drive as a substitute received over the top of Noelvi Marte for an RBI double. They scored the tying run when Reds shortstop Elly De La Cruz, with a game-ending double play in thoughts, skipped a 91.1 mph throw previous first base, they usually scored once more within the tenth when Cincinnati left fielder Jake Fraley tripped and fell whereas fielding William Contreras’ base hit and was injured. And so they pushed forward for good after Turang bunted for a success main off the eleventh to place Reds reliever Joe La Sorsa in a good spot with the go-ahead runner at third.
Credit score the Brewers for persevering with to use strain on the way in which to the longest successful streak within the Majors for the reason that 2022 Mariners received 14 in a row. The one longer successful streak this decade belongs to the 2021 Cardinals, who had a 17-game successful spree that September.
