Milwaukee Brewers All-Star Christian Yelich left Tuesday night’s contest against the Chicago Cubs due to back tightness, the team announced.

Yelich, who was serving as Milwaukee’s designated hitter, made three plate appearances before getting subbed out. He drew two walks before grounding out in the sixth, and Rhys Hoskins pinch-hit for him the next time he was due up in the eighth.

When manager Pat Murphy was asked for his thoughts on Yelich’s injury, he didn’t sound particularly optimistic.

“My thoughts are ‘Oh sh*t’ – can I say that?” Murphy said. “Those are my thoughts.”

As noted by The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Curt Hogg, Yelich had been dealing with back flareups over the past few days.

Yelich already suffered a lower back strain in April, costing him nearly a month of action. After missing those 23 consecutive games, though, Yelich had only missed four of the Brewers’ next 66 contests.

The 32-year-old outfielder has been enjoying a resurgent 2024 campaign, making his first All-Star appearance since 2019. He currently leads the National League with a .315 batting average and .415 on-base percentage, five years removed from his back-to-back batting titles in 2018 and 2019.

Yelich’s .504 slugging percentage and .909 OPS are also the highest they’ve been since 2019, when he finished runner-up in the NL MVP race. He won NL MVP in 2018, leading the league in both categories.

Through 73 games this season, Yelich has racked up 11 home runs, 42 RBI, 21 stolen bases and a 2.4 WAR. He recently became one of five active MLB players to hit 200 career home runs and steal 200 career bases.

It remains to be seen if Yelich will need to hit the injured list again, or if he will be able to rejoin the Brewers’ lineup for Wednesday’s finale against the Cubs. First pitch at Wrigley Field is scheduled for 2:20 p.m. ET.

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MILWAUKEE – Milwaukee police are asking for the public’s help to locate a critically missing 10-year-old boy named Michael Miller. 

The boy was last seen near 38th and Lancaster on Milwaukee’s north side around 6 p.m. on Tuesday, July 23. 

Miller is described as a male, Black, 4′ tall, weighing 75 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. He was last seen wearing a gray t-shirt, gray jogging pants, and white Nike Airforce tennis shoes with orange and blue accents.

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Anyone having contact with, or information on the boy is urged to call the Milwaukee Police Department, District 7 at 414-935-7272.

MILWAUKEE – Frustrated and fed up, protests continue for D’Vontaye Mitchell more than three weeks after he died following an altercation with hotel security at the Hyatt Regency in Milwaukee.

Mitchell’s family said they also want transparency, and they are urging the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office to move forward with pressing charges, as well as to release all footage of the fatal incident at the Hyatt to the public.

Three weeks after his death, Mitchell’s mother, Brenda Giles, is on what she’s calling an uphill battle for justice.

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“We won’t get no rest until they are arrested,” Giles said. “That’s how I feel. No justice, no peace. So maybe once I get justice then I can get some peace.”

Mitchell died on June 30 outside the downtown hotel. Graphic video shows the 43-year-old father of two being held down by four now-former Hyatt employees. Two of them were security officers.

It occurred after witnesses say he locked himself in the women’s bathroom.

Several family members say surveillance video from inside shows he was in fear of his life.

The DA’s office is now reviewing felony murder charges referred by the Milwaukee Police Department for four people. Outside the DA’s office, Mitchell’s family is protesting once again, hoping their voices will be heard.

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“I don’t care how hot it is, we gone keep coming out here,” his sister, Nayisha Mitchell, said. “We gonna keep protesting, we gonna keep on doing our chants until we get some results here.”

Results they want in the form of charges for everyone involved, and videos released publicly of Mitchell’s fatal encounter with staff at the hotel. 

“I need some closure,” GIles said.

From outside the DA’s house to the Hyatt, Mitchell’s family and supporters said they won’t stop applying pressure.

“I’m pushing and urging for the DA to do the right thing, to make some charges, make sure you pursue the right charges,” cousin Latrisa Giles said. “Don’t just give the lower level charges to be doing something.”

A GoFundMe has been set up to support Mitchell’s family.

The DA’s office previously told FOX6 News it is waiting on results from Mitchell’s autopsy to make a charging decision.