NEW YORK -- The Brewers went from the doorstep of historical past to certainly one of their most deflating defeats. 

After pushing to inside two outs of turning into the primary group ever to throw an 11-inning no-hitter, the Brewers as a substitute had been denied historical past and a three-game sweep after they twice squandered the lead in a 13-inning, 4-3 loss to the Yankees on Sunday at Yankee Stadium.

While it wasn’t a sport for the historical past books, it was definitely one for the reminiscence financial institution. After Corbin Burnes pitched eight hitless innings and Devin Williams and Abner Uribe saved the bid alive -- Uribe, due to a death-defying catch from fellow rookie Sal Frelick on the right-field wall within the tenth -- the Brewers scored the sport’s first run on Tyrone Taylor’s single within the eleventh. That introduced dependable Milwaukee setup man Joel Payamps into the sport with an opportunity to finish one thing particular. No MLB group has accomplished a no-hitter longer than 9 innings in 26 years, and there has by no means been one longer than 10 innings.

But it wasn’t to be. After Payamps misplaced the no-hitter and noticed a 1-0 lead get away on Oswaldo Cabrera’s RBI double, struggling Trade Deadline pickup Andrew Chafin misplaced a 3-1 lead on Giancarlo Stanton’s towering two-run homer within the twelfth, and Hoby Milner took the loss within the thirteenth on Kyle Higashioka’s walk-off double.

“We played a good series. We played a good game today,” stated Brewers supervisor Craig Counsell. “There’s a thousand points you can look at in that game where you could have got a run home or prevented a run.”

After profitable the primary two video games of the collection by a mixed rating of 17-4, one run might need been sufficient for Burnes the best way his reduce fastball was working. He walked two, struck out seven and averted a scare in his next-to-last inning when he sprained his left ankle fielding a comebacker. Of his 109 pitches, 67 had been cutters; Burnes made an adjustment with that pitch between begins and remarked modestly, “I'd say it probably went a little better than expected.”

The timing was proper. As he pitched Sunday, it was at some point shy of the two-year anniversary of the evening Burnes pitched the primary eight innings of a mixed no-hitter with Josh Hader in Cleveland on Sept. 11, 2021.

This time, Burnes had one other lights-out nearer, Williams, prepared behind him.

“Those are the ones you want to play in, the really competitive ones,” Frelick stated. “At the same time, I really wish we could have blown them out again and gave some run support for Corbin there, who pitched an absolute gem. It stinks. A guy goes out and gives you a start like that, you really wish you could give him some support.”

Yankees ace Gerrit Cole had one thing to say about that, burnishing his American League Cy Young Award credentials by permitting three hits over seven scoreless innings. With every zero on the scoreboard, it grew to become a matchup of managers Aaron Boone of the Yankees and Counsell, who has deftly managed his bullpens in lots of a September. This one would require the fitting contact, as a result of the Brewers simply entered a run of 23 video games in 24 days to complete the common season slate. Sunday was Day 3 of that stretch. 

Of all the choices Sunday, probably the most fateful arrived within the twelfth inning. The Brewers had simply taken their second lead in as many innings, this time offering a two-run cushion on Joey Wiemer’s tiebreaking double and Andruw Monasterio’s powerful, 11-pitch sacrifice fly.

Counsell stated his accessible relievers for that second had been Chafin, Milner and right-hander Thyago Vieira. But he wished to steer clear of Milner as a result of the week forward in opposition to the Marlins and Nationals presents plentiful matchups for a high-leverage left-hander, and Milner figures to get lots of work. Vieira, in the meantime, was simply referred to as up on Wednesday. When he pitched in opposition to the Yankees on Friday, it was his first MLB look in 4 years. 

Among the relievers whom Counsell didn't point out as accessible had been Trevor Megill and Bryse Wilson, who every pitched the earlier two days. He additionally didn’t point out Elvis Peguero, who pitched an inning the evening earlier than. The Brewers try to be protecting of Peguero’s workload in the meanwhile in order that he’s a weapon within the coming weeks and, ought to they qualify for the postseason, into October.

“I was trying to stay away from Payamps today, too,” Counsell stated. “With [the Yankees] righties, it’s a tough inning for Hoby, it’s a tough inning for Chafin.”

Said Chafin: "It was one hung slider to the worst guy you can hang a slider to. That's what it boils down to. It was one of those things where I wasn't trying to throw it anywhere near the damn zone. It's just a terrible pitch -- the only bad pitch of the inning."

In a sport like this, that pitch made a giant distinction. 

“We played a great series, you can't take that away,” Burnes stated. “We would have loved to sweep them and finish it off. That's how it goes.”

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