The Milwaukee Brewers shut out the Detroit Tigers on Friday night as speedster Blake Perkins did something offensively that the Brewers haven't seen since 2017.
shut out the Detroit Tigers on Friday night 10-0 to move to 37-26 on the season. After an offseason of turmoil, the Brewers are surprisingly in first place in the National League Central, owning a 6.5 game over both the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago Cubs.
Tobias Myers dominated on the mound for Milwaukee, going 8.0 shutout innings with five strikeouts, and Blake Perkins did something not seen for the last seven years of team history at the plate.Blake Perkins is the first Brewers player with multiple triples in a game since Hernán Pérez in 2017.Perkins went 3-for-4 with three runs scored and two RBI. He's now hitting .260 with a .730 OPS for the year.
In addition to his historic day, Sal Frelick went 2-for-4, Joey Ortiz went 2-for-5 and Brice Turang went 4-for-5. The two teams will play again on Saturday afternoon with first pitch coming at 4:10 p.m. ET. Freddy Peralta will pitch for Milwaukee while Casey Mize gets the ball for Detroit. Peralta is 4-3 this year and owns a 3.74 ERA. Mize, in his first season back from Tommy John surgery, is 1-3 with a 4.70.Brady Farkas is a baseball writer for Fastball on Sports Illustrated/FanNation and the host of 'The Payoff Pitch' podcast which can be found on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Videos on baseball also posted to YouTube. Brady has spent nearly a decade in sports talk radio and is a graduate of Oswego State University. You can follow him on Twitter @WDEVRadioBrady.
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