MILWAUKEE (Interstat) — Christian Yelich and Garrett Mitchell each drove in two runs as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Miami Marlins 8-6 on Saturday evening at American Family Field, improving the Brewers’ record to 61-37 while dropping the Marlins to 52-47.

The attendance was 40,144, and the game lasted 3 hours, 2 minutes.

Milwaukee starter Shane Drohan earned the win, improving to 5-3, after allowing three runs on six hits over five innings. He struck out six and walked one. Calvin Faucher took the loss for Miami, falling to 4-5, after surrendering six runs on five hits in 1 2/3 innings of relief. Trevor Megill recorded his 15th save of the season with a scoreless ninth inning.

The Marlins struck first in the top of the second inning. Javier Sanoja led off with a double, and Liam Hicks followed with a bunt single to put runners at the corners. Leo Jiménez singled to left field, scoring Sanoja for a 1-0 lead. Esteury Ruiz bunted for a single to load the bases, and Joe Mack grounded into a forceout that brought home Hicks, making it 2-0. Otto Lopez added a sacrifice fly to score Jiménez, pushing the lead to 3-0.

Milwaukee got a run back in the bottom of the second. Garrett Mitchell singled, moved to third on a walk to Luis Lara, and scored on a sacrifice fly by Braden Shewmake. The Brewers cut the deficit to 3-1.

The Brewers pulled within one in the third inning. Jackson Chourio walked and scored on William Contreras’ double to right-center field. Mitchell followed with a single, but the inning ended with the score 3-2.

Both teams were held scoreless in the fourth and fifth innings, with Miami’s early three-run lead still intact.

The game turned in the bottom of the sixth. Shewmake doubled to lead off, and Joey Ortiz and Yelich drew consecutive walks to load the bases. Chourio lined a single to center, plating Shewmake and Ortiz to give Milwaukee its first lead at 4-3. After Jake Bauers struck out, Contreras grounded out, advancing Yelich and Chourio into scoring position. Mitchell then doubled down the left-field line, clearing the bases and extending the lead to 6-3.

Milwaukee added two more runs in the seventh. Cooper Pratt singled, and Shewmake reached on a fielder’s choice that also advanced Pratt to third on a throwing error by first baseman Kyle Stowers. Yelich doubled to left, scoring both runners and making it 8-3.

The Marlins mounted a comeback attempt in the ninth. Liam Hicks was hit by a pitch, and Jiménez walked. Griffin Conine, batting for the first time in the game, launched a three-run homer to left-center field, cutting the deficit to 8-6. But Megill retired the next three batters—Joe Mack on strikes, Otto Lopez on a groundout and Heriberto Hernández on a groundout—to seal the victory.

Mitchell led the Brewers’ offense with three hits in five at-bats and two RBIs. Shewmake collected two hits in three at-bats with an RBI and two runs scored. Yelich finished 1-for-3 with two RBIs and a walk. Chourio went 1-for-3 with two RBIs and a walk. Contreras added a hit and an RBI, and Lara singled. Abner Uribe pitched a scoreless eighth inning, allowing one hit and striking out three.

For the Marlins, Jiménez had a hit, two runs scored and an RBI. Sanoja doubled and scored. Hicks had a hit and a run. Ruiz singled. Mack drove in a run. Lopez had a sacrifice fly and an RBI. Conine’s homer was his seventh of the season.

Miami totaled seven hits and left five runners on base. Milwaukee had 10 hits and stranded eight.

The Brewers have now won four of their past five games and are 10-3 in their last 13 contests. The Marlins have lost four straight and six of their last seven.

Milwaukee’s next game is Sunday against the Marlins at American Family Field, while Miami continues its road trip Monday at Houston.

Interstat’s game simulator had projected a final score of Miami Marlins 5, Milwaukee Brewers 4. Interstat’s ELO system gave Milwaukee a 63.50 percent probability to win. Milwaukee was installed as a pregame favorite with a spread of minus-1.5. The total of 14 runs went under the over-under line of 8.