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Andrew McCutchen hit two homers and scored three runs in the Milwaukee Brewers' 5-3 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers on Thursday afternoon.
Hunter Renfro hit his two-run homer of his three-hit for the Brewers to earn his series split in four games.
Milwaukee starter Corbyn Barnes (9-5) allowed him three runs and six hits in 5 2/3 innings. He struck out 6 and walked 2.
Devin Williams struck out in his ninth inning, recording his eighth save.
Gavin Lux had his two hits and his two RBIs, and Trea Turner also had his two hits in Los Angeles.
Dodgers starter Andrew Heaney (1-1) in 4 2/3 innings where he stole 10 but gave him five runs and five hits, including three homers. gave up and hit one walk.
Heaney struck out the first two batters he faced and scored his full count when McCutchen returned to center and he took a 1–0 lead.
McCutchen went deep again in his third he had two outs.
Christian Yelich took the lead on his single with one out as McCutchen he crossed the fence in center field with a 2-0 slider to lead 3-0.
McCutchen builds his 3-for-6 career against Heaney with his three homers.
McCutchen needed to end his fifth with a strikeout, but catcher Will He reached for Smith's pass ball. Then Renfro hit his two-run homer to center to take a 5–0 lead, and Heaney's he has not left five innings in four games since being taken off the disabled list on July 27. ended the day.
The run proved significant as the Dodgers scored three from Barnes in the sixth inning.
Trea Turner led with a double and Freddie Freeman's single to his third. Smith then drove Turner on a single to make it 5-1. Barnes nearly escaped the inning with no further damage, but Milwaukee's center fielder his Tyrone his Taylor failed to hold his drive deep in Lux and two more on a triple. A run made him 5-3.
It was Lux's seventh triple of the season and put him in a major battle for the league lead with Cleveland's Amed Rosario of the Guardians.
– Field Level Media
