Rhys Hoskins and Joey Ortiz hit back-to-back home runs as part of a five-run second inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Oakland Athletics 11-3 on Friday night.
The Brewers, who have won seven of nine, sent nine batters to the plate in the second to take a 5-1 lead. Hoskins, who entered the game hitless in his last 21 at-bats, put Milwaukee in front with a three-run blast afterlater added the fifth run, scoring from first on a single by Jackson Chourio that went under the glove of A’s left fielder
“It's nice to jump on a team on the road early,” Hoskins said. “It puts you ahead of the eight ball a little bit, get some confidence for the pitcher to go out there and fill up the zone.” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said that while hitting might be contagious, it still comes down to “swinging at the right pithces”
“When everybody’s doing that, it feels really good,” Murphy said. “It reminds everybody, ‘If that’s what he’s doing. I’ve got to do that.'”knocked in runs in the fourth, extending the lead to 7-1. Sánchez cleared the bases with a triple and scored on a sacrifice fly by Hoskins in the ninth.“That's what makes this game hard,” Hoskins said. “Just continuing on with how I’ve been feeling within batting practice, doing what I can to help that translate in the game.
“You make mistakes up in the zone against a good hitting team, they’re going to take advantage of it, which they did tonight,” A's manager Mark Kotsay said. “I think JP’s might have been down a tick tonight and could have had some impact on the performance as well.”led off the game with a homer for the A’s. He added a second RBI in the fourth to trim the deficit to 7-3.Brewers: Perkins was in the lineup on Friday after being activated from the 10-day injured list on Thursday.
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