Durbin and Turang hit back-to-back doubles in the 8th to help the Brewers top the Pirates
Milwaukee Brewers' Caleb Durbin celebrates in the dugout after scoring during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. Credit: AP/Matt Freed
PITTSBURGH — Caleb Durbin and Brice Turang hit back-to-back doubles in the eighth inning to help the Milwaukee Brewers top the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 on Sunday.
Durbin sent a sweeper from Ryan Borucki (1-2) to the track in left field, driving in two and tying it at 5. Turang brought him home with a ball down the line in left.
Jared Koenig (3-1) got the win despite allowing two runs in 1 2/3 innings. Trevor Megill struck out two in the ninth while recording his ninth save.
Adam Frazier drove in three runs for Pittsburgh, including two on a two-out double that put the Pirates ahead 5-3 in the seventh. He hit an RBI single in the sixth before Tommy Pham tied it at 3 on a single to left.
The Brewers scored three off Bailey Falter in the first before Oneil Cruz cut it to 3-1 with a massive drive in the third.
Cruz's team-leading 11th homer had a 122.9 mph exit velocity for the hardest-hit ball since Statcast began tracking in 2015. He sent a fastball from Logan Henderson 432 feet into the Allegheny River past the Clemente Wall in right for his third homer in three games.
Henderson, a 23-year-old rookie who won his first three starts in the majors, struck out six in five innings.
Milwaukee Brewers' Brice Turang watches his RBI double during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. Credit: AP/Matt Freed
Key moment
Durbin fouled off the first five pitches before hitting his tying double in the eighth.
Key stat
Cruz already had the record for the hardest-hit ball on a 122.4 mph single on Aug. 24, 2022. Giancarlo Stanton had the hardest-hit homer at 121.7 mph while with Miami on Aug. 9, 2017.
Up next
Brewers: RHP Chad Patrick (2-4, 3.23 ERA) takes the mound on Monday against Boston. LHP Garrett Crochet (4-3, 1.98 ERA) starts for the Red Sox.
Pirates: LHP Andrew Heaney (3-3, 2.91 ERA) starts on Monday in the opener of a three-game series in Arizona. RHP Ryne Nelson (1-1, 4.60 ERA) gets the ball for the Diamondbacks.
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