Brewers Obliterate Seattle 22-0 in Historic August Beatdown
Milwaukee put up 22 runs on Seattle without allowing a single one, finishing August 18 with one of the most lopsided scores you'll see all season. Four Milwaukee hitters went deep, six drove in at least two runs, and Seattle's night never had a pulse.
It started quietly enough — Contreras singled to left in the first, Bauers scored on a catcher's error by Raleigh, and Milwaukee led 1-0. That play swung the home win probability from 72% to 79%, a modest nudge that turned out to be the opening note of a symphony of destruction. Seattle's Bryce Miller held things together until the fifth, but that's when the dam broke. A Chourio single plated Hamilton, a Contreras sacrifice fly scored Turang, and then Yelich launched a 396-foot shot to right center that cleared the bases and pushed the lead to 6-0. Miller was pulled after 4.2 innings having allowed 7 hits and 5 earned runs. He never had a chance at a lead to protect.
The sixth inning buried Seattle for good. Hamilton went 393 feet to center, scoring Mitchell and Ortiz to make it 9-0. Two batters later, Bauers went 397 feet to right center, scoring Turang — 11-0. The Brewers weren't running up the score so much as the score was running away from everyone. By the seventh, Hamilton singled to center to score Lara, and a fielder's choice by Vaughn brought home Ortiz, pushing it to 13. Kyle Harrison had already done his job cleanly — 5.0 innings, 2 hits, 0 earned runs, 8 strikeouts — and Milwaukee's bullpen kept the shutout intact the rest of the way.
The eighth inning was almost absurd. Lara homered to left (373 feet), scoring Contreras and Yelich to make it 16-0. Then the Brewers just kept sending men to the plate: a Vaughn single, an Ornelas single, a Contreras walk — each one pushing another run across. Yelich's sacrifice fly to center turned into a two-run play when Seattle's center fielder Rodríguez threw the ball away on an error, making it 21-0. Lara capped it with a single to right, scoring Contreras for the 22nd run. Lara finished 3-for-6 with a homer and 4 RBI. Hamilton matched him — 3-for-5, homer, 4 RBI. Yelich went 2-for-5 with a homer and 4 RBI. Garrett Mitchell, the story of the night appears to be his quiet engine work — 4-for-6 with 2 runs scored, getting on base repeatedly to keep the machine fed. Milwaukee looks like a team that didn't just beat Seattle — they erased them.