Freddy Peralta threw six scoreless innings, William Contreras ended a fifth inning with a home run and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the San Francisco Giants 5-3 on Wednesday night.
Peralta (9-7) allowed two hits and Thairo Estrada’s single in five innings to give the Brewers a 5-0 lead. The Giants threatened in the sixth with a two-out single by Tyler Fitzgerald and a single before Peralta retired Heliot Ramos, screaming as he walked off the mound.
Peralta struck out eight, allowed just two hits and walked three.
Kyle Harrison (7-6) allowed a single to Blake Perkins with one out in the first inning, then retired 11 of the next 12 batters before the Brewers broke through in the fifth inning.
Jackson Chourio’s RBI base single started the scoring. After a visit to the mound, Perkins hit a two-run double off the wall in left-center. Contreras crushed the rookie left-hander’s first-pitch changeup for his 18th home run of the season. That was it for Harrison, who left after striking out seven and walking three in his 23rd start of the season.
Milwaukee’s Devin Williams bounced back from his first blown save last Wednesday in St. Louis with a 1-2-3 ninth for his sixth save in seven chances. He was reinstated on July 28 after missing 104 games with a stress fracture in his back.
The Giants ruined the shutout effort with a run in the seventh and two more in the eighth.
Matt Chapman doubled off Trevor Megill, grounded out and scored Estrada’s single, his second of the game.
Michael Conforto broke a 4-for-30 streak with a run-scoring double and Ramos scored another run with a single in the eighth, all by Jared Koenig.
San Francisco has won seven of its last 10 games at American Family Field and nine of its last 14 games overall since 2019.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Giants: C Patrick Bailey (right oblique injury) is with the club and could be activated from the 10-day injured list on Thursday.
Brewers: LHP Hoby Milner (left shoulder impingement) hopes to begin a rehab program at High-A Wisconsin on August 30.
NEXT
RHP Hayden Birdsong (3-3, 4.57 ERA) will start for the Giants and RHP Aaron Civale (4-8, 4.84) will enter for the Brewers when the three-game series concludes Thursday afternoon.
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