Milwaukee Brewers come to life against Chicago Cubs, Imanaga
Christian Yelich, Blake Perkins and Willy Adames hit home runs and the Milwaukee Brewers came to life against Shota Imanaga to beat the Chicago Cubs 10-6 on Wednesday night.Rookie Joey Ortiz, batting leadoff for the first time, hit a double off Imanaga in the first. Two batters later, Yelich crushed a 441-foot home run to right-center to give the Brewers an early 2-0 lead.Imanaga entered the game with major league-leading 0.84 ERA.
Perkins made a leaping grab at the center field fence to rob Christopher Morel of a two-run homer in the third.The Brewers scored five runs in the third. Adames had a run-scoring single, Gary Sánchez drove in a pair with a double and Perkins capped the inning with a two-run homer to push Milwaukee's lead to 7-1.Imanaga gave up a season-high eight hits in 4 1/3 innings, his second-shortest outing of the season. He had one walk and one strikeout in the 82-pitch outing.
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