After two ugly losses to their biggest rival, the Brewers turned to their ace, Freddy Peralta, to stop their three-game skid. Peralta responded with six fabulous innings, followed by three more good ones from the bullpen, and Milwaukee’s struggling offense did just enough — and capitalized on Chicago’s one real mistake of the day — to pull out a 4-0 victory, salvaging the last game of this otherwise-ugly series.
Peralta started out today’s game by giving them something they badly needed: a scoreless first inning. Ian Happ struck out, Kyle Tucker rolled over a 2-0 changeup, and Seiya Suzuki also struck out, with Peralta getting some help from home-plate umpire Malachi Moore on the last one (the called third strike was definitely high, but the Brewers will certainly take what breaks they can get at the moment).