Brad Miller signs a start in Brewers

MILWAUKEE – Here's something Brewers fans may not have known about the team's new stoppage game. It seems Brad Miller takes the team "walk-off" very literally.

He tells himself that he is responsible for two walk-off RBIs in his entire life of baseball – all of youth ball in Orlando, at Clemson University, at minors and majors. Both came by a base-loaded ride into the big leagues. After seeing four consecutive throws from the Twins rookie Zack Littell who were outside the box, he had won a 6-5 Brewers victory in 10 innings Monday at Miller Park. Miller joined Adrian Beltre and Russell Martin as the only active players with a pair of walks to his credit.

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MILWAUKEE – Here's something Brewers fans would not have known about the team's new shutdown game. It seems Brad Miller takes the team "walk-off" very literally.

He tells himself that he is responsible for two walk-off RBIs in his entire life of baseball – all of youth ball in Orlando, at Clemson University, at minors and majors. Both came by a base-loaded ride into the big leagues. After seeing four consecutive throws from the Twins rookie Zack Littell who were outside the box, he had won a 6-5 Brewers victory in 10 innings Monday at Miller Park. Miller joined Adrian Beltre and Russell Martin as the only active players with a pair of walk-off walks to his credit.

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Down on the field After the match, Sophia Sports Wisconsin reporter Sophia Minnaert asked Miller the key to tearing him up.

"Do not swing," Miller was caught up

Six of the Brewers' 25 wins at Miller Park this season walking mode, including a pair of walks. Travis Shaw took one against the Mets on May 25 . The last time the Brewers made several marches in a season, it was a team from the American league. John Jaha and Jose Valentin did it in 1997.

"I was ready to hit," Miller said. "I'm happy to be gone."

Miller's patience, which came after Shaw treated Twins closer to his second direct rescue through a sacrificial fly in the ninth, helped the Brewers avoid falling into drop points behind the Cubs in the Central National League. Instead, Milwaukee remained 1 1/2 games at the top of the division

The Brewers won despite becoming the first team in 11 years to run a grand slam in three straight games, playing the game. back after the Twins cleaning man. ambushed a first-clbad fast-paced ball from the Brewers striker Brent Suter in the fifth inning for a 5-1 lead.

Video: MIN @ MIL: Grossman makes a big left -center blow

The game returned to the Brewers in the bottom of the same inning, when Manny Pina made the Twins start Kyle Gibson to launch a Rally trio that included a gift from third baseman Willians Astudillo. He started Ryan Braun with goals loaded for a scoring error that raised the score to 5-4 and extended the run for Nate Orf's grand slam in the league's major league debut. ; Orf.

Video: MIN @ MIL: Pina crushes a home homerun in the center

"You could feel the offensive pressure getting back on them directly," said Suter.

Four Brewers Relief Combined for five scoreless and goal-scoring innings, there remains one point play in the bottom of the ninth. Miller's successive singles, Eric Thames and Rodney's Jesus Aguilar charged the bases of Shaw's sacrificial fly, but Rodney retrieved Braun from a broken bat rower. send the game to additional sleeves.

Video: MIN @ MIL: Shaw lashing with a satchel at the bottom of the 9th

A clinic on basic baseball, the bottom of the 10th inning was not . 19659002] Littell, making his second career appearance, put the Brewers into business when he hit Orf with a 0-2 ball. Pina followed and pushed a pair of typing attempts before hitting one. Keon Broxton was the next, and crushed two more foul throws, before making a walk that loaded the bases with no one for Hernan Perez . Perez hit a sweet bouncer in an indoor field of five men. Shortstop The goal of Jorge Polanco was far from the line, but the receiver Bobby Wilson made a nice game to hold the plate for the withdrawal.

Video: MIN @ MIL: Wilson stays on the sidelines for the key

Littell then walked on Miller for four lengths, and the game was over.

"We did not have any shots, but these guys also have Craig Counsell, manager of the Brewers, said: [TRADUCTION]" We are all professionals and we should be able to bring down the prices Broxton said, "It did not work like that, but we did the job, one way or another."

MOMENTS WHO HAVE MADE INTERESTED
So Close: The Miller Park faithful cheered Major Orf's first Major battalion as he was Robin Yount's next comer, and not an undrafted free agent doing his debut after six-year games in the minor leagues, Orf almost gave them something to cheer on in the fifth, after Astudillo's mistake gave him a bat chance with the loaded bases. and the Brewers down a race. Orf drove a Gibson field to the center of deep center, but Max Kepler raised him on the warning trail.

Video: MIN @ MIL: Gibson escapes a jam base in the 5th

"During the seconds that followed, I thought:" That's it, c & # 39; is the coolest thing I've ever done, "said Orf." Then he grabbed her and I thought, "Keep grinding, here we go." I had so much fun tonight.

Ghost Foul: The first round of the Twins scored after a dispute between Counsell and the marble umpire, Doug Eddings, in the third inning. The second baseman of the Twins Brian Dozier missed and missed the third goal on a field of Suter in the dust and went on to run first. Eddings called him bad advice, to Counsell's dismay, and refused to ask if any of his co-judges had seen him differently. This led to a critical race when Dozier hit a starting point for a tie 1-1

Video: MIN @ MIL: Dozier Gibson plates with a grounding

"Que Do you want me to do it? "Counsell said. "He made a bad call, I have no recourse, sometimes you have no recourse."

"It changed the game a bit at that point," said Suter, "but fortunately we were able to come back and win. If we did not win that one, it would have been difficult. to achieve this. "

SOUND SMART
For the first time in 50 seasons as a franchise, the brewers have dropped a grand slam in three straight games. According to Elias, the last team to meet this dubious distinction was the Royals in April 2007.

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Broxton doubled and scored in the fifth, and walked into the 10th, but those These were not the only ways he impacted the final score on Monday. In the seventh inning, Broxton followed Joe Mauer's ball over the center wall and leapt ahead of what could have been a home run, and would have been at least one more shot

Video: MIN @ MIL: Broxton jumps to Rob Mauer from a home run

"I do not know if it was gone," Broxton said. "It would probably have been at the top of the wall, but when I caught it, my body still went through the fence … Our guys just scratched and scratched for all we could, I think everything the world was saying in their head: "win this game." It was good that we went out and did it.

NEXT
Junior Guerra will be on the mound Tuesday afternoon for the Brewers in front of the former Milwaukee prospect Jake Odorizzi in a rematch of their May 20 meeting at Target Field, where Odorizzi withdrew 10 strikes in two-thirds of a Twins victory, and will once again head-to-head in a game that will be televised exclusively on Facebook Live from 3:10 pm CT