Cubs vs. Brewers – Game Recap – April 30, 2022 – ESPN

MILWAUKEE — — Eric Lauer saved up his strikeout success, fanning 11 in seven innings because the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 9-1 on Saturday evening.

Rowdy Tellez hit a two-run homer within the fifth, and Christian Yelich and Hunter Renfroe related for consecutive dwelling runs within the eighth.

The Cubs are 2-9 within the final 11 video games after profitable six of 10 to begin the season.

Lauer (2-0), who struck out a career-high 13 final weekend in opposition to Philadelphia, reached double digits in strikeouts in consecutive video games for the primary time in his profession.

“It was very nice to have the ability to string a few good ones collectively,” Lauer mentioned. “Hopefully, you possibly can simply preserve doing that.”

Lauer allowed a solo dwelling run by Yan Gomes within the second inning and simply 4 singles after that.

“I felt actually locked in with all my pitches, all of the command,” Lauer mentioned. “I felt like I used to be ready to make use of the heater in good spots and form of finest guys with fastballs early.”

The Brewers are 4-0 in his begins this season.

“Getting a swing and a miss on a fastball within the strike zone is tough to do on this league,” Brewers supervisor Craig Counsell mentioned. “He is doing that fairly properly.”

Tellez additionally had an RBI single within the first. Renfroe, who scored 3 times, and Yelich every had three hits and drove in two runs.

“When you may have guys like Lauer popping out and punching out 10 on a number of nights, and each one in your pitching workers is able to doing that, we simply should put a few runs on the board,” Tellez mentioned.

Yelich hit a two-run shot off Locke St. John and Renfroe adopted with a drive. St. John had simply been recalled from Triple-A Iowa.

The Brewers scratched out three runs within the first off Justin Steele (1-3) on 4 hits, two errors and an overturned out name at first.

“We will not beat ourselves,” Cubs supervisor David Ross mentioned.

Steele beat the Brewers 9-0 on April 9, however since then he’s misplaced three straight.

“Executing his recreation plan in all probability slightly extra constant,” Ross mentioned. “One factor we have got to will we bought to play higher protection behind him.”

Steele appeared to take the loss in stride.

“It is simply baseball,” he mentioned. “In the present day, I imply truthfully so far as pitching stuff, it was one of many higher instances I felt this 12 months.”

TRAINER’S ROOM

Cubs: OF Clint Frazier (appendicitis) was positioned on the 10-day injured listing Friday, retroactive to Wednesday. “I do know he’s recovering and never on a rehab task but,” Ross mentioned. Frazier is batting .143 (3 for 21) with two walks and two doubles in 10 video games.

Brewers: INF Luis Urías (left quad) shall be re-evaluated Sunday on the conclusion of his rehab task with Double-A Biloxi. He has but to play within the majors this season and has missed 22 video games.

CUBS MOVE

St. John, who final pitched for the Texas Rangers in 2019, was recalled from Triple-A Iowa, the place the lefty was 0-1 with a 5.14 ERA in 5 video games. RHP Mark Leiter Jr. (0-1, 7.84 ERA in 4 video games, together with three begins) was optioned to Iowa.

UP NEXT

Two right-handers every make their fifth begin of the season within the finale of the three-game sequence. Marcus Stroman (0-3, 6.98 ERA) goes for the Cubs whereas Corbin Burnes (1-09, 1.75 ERA) is on the mound for the Brewers.

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