Henderson Dominates, Milwaukee Rolls San Francisco 8-2
Logan Henderson held San Francisco to 2 hits and 0 earned runs over 5.2 innings while striking out 7, and Milwaukee's offense did the rest — scoring 8 unanswered runs before San Francisco finally got on the board. By the time Bryce Eldridge's 369-foot homer in the eighth made it 8-2, the game had long been decided.
The story of the night was how quickly Milwaukee seized control. Chourio singled to right in the third to score Pratt, and that moment — when San Francisco's win probability dropped from 41% to 30% — turned out to be the hinge the whole game swung on. It didn't get better from there for the Giants. In the fourth, Pratt singled to score Lara, and then Turang followed with a single to center that scored both Mitchell and Pratt, pushing Milwaukee to a 4-0 lead before San Francisco's starter JT Brubaker could record an out in the inning. Brubaker finished after just 3.0 innings, having allowed 5 hits and 3 earned runs.
Milwaukee kept the foot on the gas. Lara grounded into a fielder's choice in the fifth that scored Contreras to make it 5-0, and then in the seventh, Lara tripled to right to score both Yelich and Vaughn — a two-run shot that pushed the lead to 7-0 and effectively ended any drama. Chourio added another run in the eighth with a groundout that scored Hamilton, capping the scoring at 8-0 before San Francisco's half of the inning. Lara finished 1-for-4 with 3 RBI, Turang went 3-for-5 with 2 RBI, and Chourio added 2-for-5 with 2 RBI — this looks like as balanced an offensive performance as Milwaukee could draw up.
Eldridge's two-run homer to right in the eighth — 369 feet, scoring Arraez — gave San Francisco its only two runs of the night and at least provided the home crowd something to cheer. But it was cosmetic damage at best. Henderson's line deserves a second look: 5.2 innings, 2 hits, 0 earned runs, 7 strikeouts against just 2 walks. That's a performance that appears to have set the tone from the first pitch. Craig Yoho came on in relief and tossed a clean inning for Milwaukee. San Francisco's pitching staff cycled through Keaton Winn after Brubaker's early exit, and Winn went 1.0 inning allowing no hits, but the damage was already done. Milwaukee wins 8-2.