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Brewers first baseman Jesus Aguilar celebrates his double in the seventh inning.(Photo: Benny Sieu-USA TODAY Sports)
A quiet offensive night was not enough to sink the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night.
Ryan Braun hit a two-run homer in the first run and Jesús Aguilar a seventh double for two of the Brewers' three hits in a 4-2 win over the San Francisco Giants at Miller Park.
This was the second time this season that Milwaukee won despite having collected three hits or less (against St. Louis on June 22, three shots) after winning a single match of this type when from the previous four seasons (September 2, 2016 in Pittsburgh).
The Brewers also did not score at least four points in a game that they had amassed three shots or less since April 21, 2013 against the Chicago Cubs.
San Francisco, meanwhile, had only five hits, all in the first five innings against pitcher Chase Anderson.
The Brewers failed to take advantage of three runs in the sixth inning and fired two more in the seventh end. Curtis Granderson and Eric Thames did the same against Hunter Strickland.
Strickland was replaced by southpaw Tony Watson. He asked Lorenzo Cain to run away and get rid of Christian Yelich before Aguilar collapsed and Carwaukee hit the center after Braun's homerun.
"Some nights, it's your patience that rewards you and we've been rewarded for our patience tonight," said Craig Counsell, who won his 300th game as a manager.
Joakim Soria and Jeremy Jeffress were eighth and ninth respectively. Jeffress recorded his ninth win, while Milwaukee took the lead in the National League a la carte race with 1 1/2 less than the St. Louis Cardinals.
Referee Adam Hamari eliminated Giants receiver Nick Hundley and his coach Bruce Bochy with two outs in the ninth after Hundley was called for strikes.
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Things looked promising early for the Brewers, who got a Cain single and then a two-pointer left-center at Braun to take a 2-0 lead over Derek Holland.
The triumph was Braun's first since August 14, when he hit a pair against the Cubs at Wrigley Field.
But that was the extent of the offensive against the southpaw, who responded by issuing only a pair of steps in the fourth inning from fifth.
Anderson, meanwhile, did his best job early in the game with a draw in the first inning and a 1-2 1-4-3 in the second.
The Giants halved the Brewers lead in the fourth, while Evan Longoria and Brandon Belt each scored and scored for a wild throw from Anderson, and Longoria scored on an attack by Chris Shaw.
San Francisco tied for fifth on a first-rounder circuit to the right of batting number 8, Alen Hanson. It was the 29th of the season allowed by Anderson, the best in the National League and a new career record.
Anderson played five innings for a third straight start, allowing five hits and one run with five strikeouts on 74 shots.
"The wild pitch is really what cost him the race," Counsell said. "It did not really go bad in this round, it just made a mistake on a balloon that came back somehow in the inner half of the Hanson plate, but it did a good job. "
Josh Hader (5-1) took over from Anderson and eliminated five of the seven batters he faced. Add to Soria and Jeffress, and the Milwaukee Enclosure allowed for a walk by removing eight people.
"Josh was outstanding tonight," Counsell said. "It's great to see him coming back and throwing the ball well tonight, that's what we're trying to do, trying to win sixth and seventh places, and I hope we we can make their way before them. "
Holland finished his night by going through the busy bases in the sixth, and then looking for Hernán Pérez. That left the Brewers 1 to 5 with riders in scoring position to prepare for the Aguilar Doubles.
FIVE TAKAWAYS
MAINTAIN IT: Yelich returned to the lineup and toured Holland in his third appearance, extending his series of goals to 23 consecutive games. It's the longest in the National League, with Alex Bregman in 33 games for Houston, the only longest in the major leagues.
WELCOME BACK: Former brewer Will Smith returned to Miller Park for the first time since trading with the Giants on August 1, 2016. Smith, who has missed the last year after undergoing an operation at Tommy John, has a record of 1.76 to 1.76. 47 games. Only pitcher Phil Bickford stays on the two-man package that the Brewers received for Smith, and he was 0-0 with an average of 4.67 ERA and 41 strikeouts in 34th and 2/3 as a reliever in Carolina advanced class this season.
LOOKING TO THE BEFORE: Counsell organized the rotation for the Brewers series from Monday to Wednesday against the Chicago Cubs at Wrigley Field. Wade Miley will start on Monday, Jhoulys Chacín on Tuesday and Anderson on Wednesday.
TO REST: For the fourth time in a row and the seventh time in his last nine outings, Anderson has played more than the usual four-day break for beginners.
"I think the difficult thing about this is sometimes that there is no formula that says you will get better if you rest. It's sometimes hard to diagnose, "Counsell said. I use my eyes on these kinds of things, and we use our feel to see what the player looks like when he is fine and what does he do when he is tired. That's what we use. "
IN A PINCH: The Brewers kicked off Friday with an eight-hit home run, a major league success that tied a franchise-free record set in 2002 and tied it last season. Granderson hit the eighth Wednesday against the Cubs. Tyler Saladino is the only player with two – May 14th in Arizona and September 1st in Washington.
RECORD
This year: 80-62
Last year: 74-68
PRESENCE
Friday: 30,916
This year: 2,437,689 (34,825 on average)
Last year: 2,181,529 (31,165 avg.)
To come up
Saturday: Brewers vs. Giants, 6:10 pm Milwaukee LHP's Gio Gonzalez (7-11, 4.57) against San Francisco's RHP Chris Stratton (9-8, 4.90). TV: FS Wisconsin. Radio: AM-620.
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