Myles Straw’s two-run double capped a three-run 10th inning as the visiting Toronto Blue Jays rallied for a 9-7 victory over Milwaukee on Tuesday night, the Brewers’ sixth consecutive defeat.
Toronto scored three runs in the ninth to go up 6-4, but the Brewers tied it with two in the bottom half.
Vladimir Guerrero Jr.’s one-out double in the 10th off Grant Anderson (0-1) scored automatic runner Ernie Clement from second to put Toronto up 7-6. Jesse Sanchez was walked intentionally and both runners scored on Straw’s liner to left.
Louis Varland (1-1), who relieved with two outs in the ninth and struck out Joey Ortiz to strand the bases loaded, got the win despite allowing a run in the 10th on William Contreras’ RBI single. Varland stranded runners on first and second with a game-ending strikeout of Gary Sanchez.
The Brewers sent it to extra innings with two in the bottom of the ninth off Jeff Hoffman on an RBI single by Brice Turang and Brandon Lockridge’s two-out RBI double.
Toronto scored three in the ninth off struggling closer Trevor Megill on an RBI single by Kazuma Okamoto, a run-scoring groundout by Andres Gimenez and an RBI single by Clement for a 6-4 lead.
Sanchez put the Brewers up 4-2 with his fifth homer, a two-out solo shot in the seventh.
Toronto pulled within 4-3 in the eighth on an RBI groundout by Guerrero.
Bauers snapped a scoreless tie with a three-run homer in the fourth off starter Kevin Gausman. Turang singled to open and Sanchez walked. Bauers followed with his fifth homer, sending a 1-1 pitch 418 feet to left-center. Gausman was charged with three runs on six hits in five innings, with three walks and five strikeouts.
Gimenez got one back for the Blue Jays in the fifth with his third homer, a two-out shot off Jacob Misiorowski. Misiorowski yielded two runs in 5 ? innings, giving up five hits with five strikeouts and no walks.
Varsho, who played collegiately at nearby Wisconsin-Milwaukee, brought the Blue Jays within 3-2 with another solo homer, his third, with one out in the sixth.
–Field Level Media
