Brewers beat Boston 6-3 after Sox 6

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BOSTON (AP) — Joey Ortiz hit a two-run double to cap a five-run third inning and the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Boston Red Sox 6-3 on Saturday.

Brice Turang hit a solo home run for the Brewers, who beat the Red Sox for the second straight day of their three-game series.

Wearing their City Connect uniforms of shiny yellow jerseys with powder blue lettering and caps, the Red Sox went hitless for six innings. Ceddanne Rafaela scored two runs for Boston.

Colin Rea (4-2) allowed two runs in 5 2/3 innings of relief after Jared Koenig made the primary 4 outs.

Rea allowed a leadoff double from Rafael Devers off the middle field wall within the seventh inning that ended the no-hit attempt.

“I was watching from the training room and didn't want to move,” Koenig said. “I was hoping Colin would keep going, but that's difficult.”

The Brewers' last no-hitter was on September 11, 2021, when pitchers Corbin Burnes and Josh Hader combined to defeat the Cleveland Indians 3-0.

Trevor Megill struck out David Hamilton with two runners on base, securing his eighth save.

All five of Milwaukee's runs within the third inning got here with two outs after 4 consecutive hits by Boston's starter. Nick Pivetta (2-3) Jake Bauers, Gary Sánchez and Sal Frelick — who grew up in nearby Lexington, Massachusetts, and played at Boston College — each had an RBI single before Ortiz hit into the gap between left and center field.

“Two outs, nobody on the plate, six batters in a row – impressive,” said Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy. “Pretty relentless. Every pitch matters, two outs, nobody on the plate. … Just keep pecking like a woodpecker, never stop.”

Turang hit a house run over Boston's bullpen within the eighth inning.

Pivetta accounted for five runs and 7 hits in 3 1/3 innings, but recorded his 1,000th profession strikeout when he got William Contreras swinging with a curveball within the third inning.

“I ran behind the guys and let them run,” Pivetta said. “I couldn't do my job.”

Koenig began for the second consecutive game. The last Brewers pitcher to accomplish that was Zack Greinke, who did it 3 times in a row in 2012. He began on July 7, was thrown out in the primary inning, began the following day after which in the primary game after the All-Star break.

A replay showed that a fan along the left field line touched a ball put into play by Willy Adames within the second inning. Murphy denied that the ball had been touched, and Adames went to second base.

TRAINING ROOM
Red Sox: RHP Garrett Whitlock said his season is over and his right ulnar collateral ligament is predicted to be repaired with an internal splint. The 27-year-old had Tommy John surgery in 2019 when he was within the Yankees' farm system. “The rehab after that is a lot easier than Tommy John. It's one of those things where you keep moving forward,” he said before the sport. … 1B Triston Casas (injured list since April 21, rib strain) has recently began hitting grounders. Manager Alex Cora said he doesn't know when he'll have the option to begin swinging a bat again. “We want to make sure he goes through the right steps and sticks to the process,” Cora said. “Obviously, you go through the right steps when you swing.” … Boston LF Tyler O'Neill, who caught Blake Perkins' hit with a leaping ball before crashing into the Green Monster within the second inning, left the sport with soreness in his right knee. “He wasn’t feeling well the whole time, so we decided to take him out,” Cora said.

BREWERY TRADE

The Brewers got RHP Garrett Stallings from Baltimore for RHPs Thyago Vieira and Aneuris Rodriguez.

Stallings, 26, was chosen within the fifth round of the 2019 amateur draft by the Los Angeles Angels. This season, he went 0-1 with a 5.67 ERA in 11 games (4 starts) for Triple-A Norfolk.

NEXT

Brewers RHP Tobias Myers (1-2, 5.00 ERA) is scheduled to face Red Sox RHP Tanner Houck (4-5, 1.94) within the series finale on Sunday.