Turang and Mitchell homer to lift Brewers past Guardians 2‑1

MILWAUKEE (Interstat) — Brice Turang and Garrett Mitchell each homered to lead the Milwaukee Brewers to a 2-1 victory over the Cleveland Guardians on Tuesday at American Family Field. The Brewers improved to 44-26, while the Guardians fell to 39-34.

Milwaukee scored in the fourth inning on Mitchell’s solo home run and added another in the seventh on Turang’s solo shot. Cleveland answered with a run in the top of the seventh on Gabriel Arias’ single that scored Stuart Fairchild. The Guardians grounded into two double plays.

Aaron Ashby (10-0) earned the win with an inning of relief, allowing one run on one hit and striking out two. Trevor Megill recorded the save, his ninth, with a perfect ninth inning. Hunter Gaddis (1-2) took the loss.

Robert Gasser started for Milwaukee and pitched 5 2/3 scoreless innings, allowing two hits and striking out five. Slade Cecconi started for Cleveland and allowed one earned run on three hits over 5 2/3 innings, striking out four. Each team collected four hits. The game drew 30,025 fans and lasted 2 hours, 28 minutes.