Brewers at White Sox
The Milwaukee Brewers failed to score over the last six innings while squandering a lead in the series opener and got off to a slow start on Saturday before turning things around and earning a win. The Brewers will try to keep the scoring balanced and earn a seventh consecutive series win when they visit the Chicago White Sox for the rubber match of a three-game interleague series on Sunday.
Milwaukee, which owns the best record in the National League, jumped out to a 3-0 lead in Friday's opener before stumbling to an 8-3 loss but the pitching held up on Saturday and the offense found its form with four home runs in a 5-0 triumph. "We did a good job overall scoring runs," Brewers center fielder Lorenzo Cain, who recorded one of the four homers on Saturday, told reporters. "The pitching did a good job. That's what they've been doing all year, keeping us in games. But we would like to put up a lot more runs early on. Hopefully, we can turn it around tomorrow and score a lot earlier." The White Sox, who are battling to avoid the worst record in the AL, dropped seven of their last nine and suffered their sixth shutout of the season on Saturday. Chicago will try to find some runs on Sunday against Milwaukee lefty Brent Suter while countering with right-hander Dylan Covey.
TV: 2:10 p.m. ET, FS Wisconsin (Milwaukee), WGN (Chicago)
PITCHING MATCHUP: Brewers LH Brent Suter (5-3, 4.63 ERA) vs. White Sox RH Dylan Covey (1-1, 3.63)
Suter earned the win in each of his last three starts and is coming off an outing on Monday against St. Louis in which he was reached for three runs and five hits in five innings without walking a batter. The Harvard product has yet to complete six innings this season and served up a total of eight home runs in his last five outings. Suter is seeing the White Sox for the first time in his career and is 3-1 with a 3.48 ERA in six career interleague games - five starts.
Covey earned his first major league win against Baltimore on May 23, striking out eight while allowing one run and six hits in seven frames. The 26-year-old wasn't quite as sharp at Cleveland on Monday, when he was reached for five runs - two earned - on five hits and struck out three in 4 1/3 frames without factoring in the decision. Covey made three interleague appearances - two starts - during his 2017 rookie campaign and went 0-1 with an 8.22 ERA.
WALK-OFFS
1. Brewers 1B Jesus Aguilar went 3-for-3 on Saturday to snap a 1-for-16 drought over the previous four games.
2. Chicago LH Jace Fry allowed four runs - three earned - in his last three appearances after beginning the season with nine straight scoreless games.
3. Milwaukee 2B Jonathan Villar went 3-for-4 on Saturday, snapping a string of 12 straight games without multiple hits.