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Yelich hits for cycle to help Brewers defeat Cincinnati
CHICAGO, Aug 30, 2018 (BSS/AFP) – Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian
Yelich hit for the cycle at Cincinnati as the visiting Brewers edged the Reds
13-12 in a 10-inning Major League Baseball matchup on Wednesday.
Yelich followed his first career multi-home run game on Tuesday by
completing the rare cycle — a single, double, triple and homer in the same
game — with a triple in the seventh inning that drove in Lorenzo Cain from
second base to pull Milwaukee level with the Reds at 10-10.
It was only the second cycle achieved in the major leagues this season,
following one by Boston’s Mookie Betts against Toronto on August 9.
Yelich, 26, hit his 26th homer of the season off Cincinnati starting
pitcher Matt Harvey in the fifth inning at Great American Ball Park, plating
two runs. It was Yelich’s sixth homer in his past 10 games.
Yelich, who went 3-for-3 against Harvey, is batting .362 with 15 homers and
40 runs batted in over his past 45 games.
The game went into extra innings deadlocked 11-11 but Milwaukee’s Jesus
Aguilar smacked a homer over the centerfield wall and Hernan Perez doubled
and scored in the top of the 10th to put the Brewers ahead 13-11.
Cincinnati’s Brandon Dixon answered with a solo homer in the 10th but the
Reds could not push home the tying run.
The Brewers improved to 74-60, five games behind the pace-setting Chicago
Cubs in the National League Central division, while the Reds remained last in
the division, falling to 57-76.
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