The Milwaukee Brewers scored two runs in the eighth inning and three more in the ninth to rally for a 7-5 win over the Giants in San Francisco.
Travis Shaw capped the ninth with a two-run homer for the Brewers, who remain 2 1/2 games behind the Chicago Cubs for first place in the National League Central division.
Christian Yelich also homered for the Brewers, falling a triple short of the cycle while also scoring three runs. The Brewers snapped a six-game road losing streak in the opener of the four-game series.
Reliever Josh Hader made his first appearance in a road game since his controversial tweets from 2011 were publicized. The San Francisco crowd booed Hader’s entrance in the sixth inning, but it quickly went away and that was it. [Read more…]