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twinsfan -> RE: MLB General Information PT 4 (8/30/2018 8:10:54 AM)
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Game of the Year in Cincinnati last night - Yelich goes 6-for-6 and hits for the cycle, possibly locking up the NL MVP award -
CINCINNATI -- As Brewers manager Craig Counsell engaged the umpires in a second heated argument in two nights, you wondered whether he was on his way to an ejection.
He must have bit his tongue, because Counsell remained in the dugout for arguably the most maddening moment of his team's season -- and maybe Milwaukee's most exhilarating win. It was a crazy, 13-12 triumph over the Reds that spanned 10 innings, featured four ties and five lead changes, defensive gems and disputed calls aplenty, and was led by a National League Most Valuable Player Award candidate, Christian Yelich, who did everything but pitch.
"I was thinking throughout the game, 'This game's crazy,'" said Yelich, who finished 6-for-6 with three RBIs and two runs scored. "We were talking about it on the bench. All the plays that happened during it, it was one of those games where you just never knew what was going to happen. It felt like no lead was safe."
Yelich became the fourth player in Brewers history to collect six hits and the eighth to hit for the cycle, and he threw the would-be go-ahead runner out at home plate in the seventh inning. Mike Moustakas hit one tie-breaking home run for Milwaukee in the eighth inning, and Jesus Aguilar smashed another in a two-run 10th before Jeremy Jeffress finally finished a rain-delayed game that spanned four hours and 16 minutes.
Erik Kratz's RBI single in the 10th was the last of the Brewers' season-high 22 hits, which proved a necessary bit of insurance when Cincinnati's Brandon Dixon went deep against Jeffress leading off the bottom of the inning. Jeffress recovered with help from third baseman Moustakas, who made a terrific defensive play to end the game and increase Milwaukee's lead over the idle Rockies to a game in the chase for the second NL Wild Card spot.
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