Brewers Use Bunts to Edge Blue Jays in Afternoon Affair

MILWAUKEE (Interstat) — Garrett Mitchell scored the go-ahead run on a seventh-inning sacrifice bunt Thursday as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 2-1 at American Family Field.

The Brewers bunted three consecutive times in the seventh to break a 1-1 tie. Aaron Ashby (5-0) got the final out in the inning for the win. Angel Zerpa stranded the tying run at third in the ninth for his second save.

Brandon Sproat led Milwaukee with 6 2/3 strong innings, allowing one run on four hits while striking out six. Toronto’s Patrick Corbin matched him with 5 2/3 innings of one-run ball.

Toronto scored in the third on a sacrifice bunt by Tyler Heineman. Milwaukee tied it in the fourth on Luis Rengifo’s sacrifice fly before manufacturing the decisive run in the seventh. The Blue Jays finished with six hits to Milwaukee’s seven before a crowd of 23,098. The game took 2 hours, 15 minutes.