Cleveland Guardians at Milwaukee Brewers

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Cleveland Guardians

72-51, 34-31 Away

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Milwaukee Brewers

71-52, 37-24 Home

Peralta and Contreras keep Brewers rolling with 2-1 win over Guardians

Gary Sánchez had an early RBI double and Milwaukee maintained its 10-game lead in the NL Central, the largest of any division leader.

Cleveland's advantage in the AL Central was sliced to two games over surging Minnesota, which beat Texas 5-2.

Josh Naylor launched his 27th homer for the Guardians, held to four runs in two losses at Milwaukee to begin their three-game interleague series this weekend.

Peralta (8-7) allowed four hits and two walks while striking out three. The right-hander had just one win in his previous seven starts and had permitted four or more runs in three of his past four outings.

“I feel like Freddy’s been throwing the ball like that, but he hasn’t had the best of luck,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. “I thought he was really, really good tonight.”

Naylor’s homer tied it 1-all with two outs in the fourth. In the bottom half, Contreras sent a 1-2 changeup from Tanner Bibee to left field for his 17th homer of the season — and sixth in August.

“I just feel really good at the plate right now,” Contreras said. “I’m feeling really comfortable and I’m not trying to do too much, just trying to do what I can to help the team.”

It was the only earned run allowed by Bibee (10-5), who held the Brewers to three hits and a walk while striking out seven over five innings.

“They got his pitch count up and made him work,” Guardians manager Stephen Vogt said. "A lot of foul balls. The two mistakes he made tonight were the double and the homer. I thought he was really good, but they got his pitch count up early.”

Milwaukee’s bullpen made the narrow lead hold up. Joel Payamps worked a scoreless seventh, Jared Koenig struck out the side in the eighth and Devin Williams needed only 10 pitches to earn his fourth save in four chances this season since coming off the injured list last month.

Brice Turang walked and scored on Sánchez's double in the first after an errant pickoff attempt by Bibee.

“A lot of these guys run. The whole goal is to try to keep them close," Bibee said. "I just made a bad throw.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Brewers: OF Blake Perkins (calf) participated in running drills on the field before the game and could return to the team by next weekend. ... RHP Trevor Megill (back strain) and RHP Enoli Paredes (forearm strain) will make rehab appearances Sunday with Class A Wisconsin.

Brewers RHP Colin Rea (10-4, 3.72 ERA) faces RHP Ben Lively (10-7, 3.71) in the series finale Sunday.

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Matchup Prediction

Brewers: 53.3%

Guardians: 46.7%

*According to ESPN's Basketball Power Index

Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	J. Naylor grounded out to third.
	9th Inning	Ramírez grounded out to catcher.
	9th Inning	Brennan grounded out to first.
	9th Inning	Williams relieved Koenig
	8th Inning	Turang grounded out to pitcher.
	8th Inning	Ortiz grounded out to second.

Statistics

CLE		MIL
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
8	Ground Balls	9
7	Strikeouts	10
1	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
4	Hits	4
3	Stolen Bases	0
2	Walks	1
0	Catcher Interference	0
1	Runs	2
0	Ground Into Double Play	0
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
29	At Bats	27
1	Home Runs	1
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
6	Runners Left On Base	6
0	Triples	0
0	Game Winning RBIs	1
0	Intentional Walks	0
0	Doubles	2
14	Fly Balls	8
1	Caught Stealing	0
121	Pitches	124
0	Games Started	0
2	Pinch At Bats	0
0	Pinch Hits	0
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	0
7	Total Bases	9
31	Plate Appearances	28
162.0	Projected Home Runs	162.0
1	Extra Base Hits	3
1.2	Runs Created	1.4
.138	Batting Average	.148
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.000
.241	Slugging Percentage	.333
.241	Secondary Average	.222
.194	On Base Percentage	.179
.435	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.512
0.6	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	1.1
1.2	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	1.7
14.0	Batter Rating	19.0
29.0	At Bats Per Home Run	27.0
0.75	Stolen Base Percentage	0.00
3.90	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.43
.103	Isolated Power	.185
0.29	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.10
.065	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.036
.103	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.074
2.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.3	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.1	Balls In Play Average	0.2
65.0	MLB Rating	68.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0