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Brewers come back to beat Diamondbacks 3-2

Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Trevor Megill, left, reacts after Milwaukee defeated the Arizona Diamondbacks 3-2 on Sunday in Phoenix. (AP Photo/Rick Scuteri)

PHOENIX (AP) — Jake Bauers homered off Arizona All-Star Eduardo Rodríguez in the seventh inning and the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Diamondbacks 3-2 on Sunday.

Bauers hit his team-leading 16th homer to right to chase Rodríguez (7-3). The lefty took a 1-0 lead into the seventh, but Andrew Vaughn led off with a single and Bauer’s blast came on Rodríguez’s 100th and final pitch of the game.

Rodríguez, named to the All-Star Game for the first time in his 12-year career on Saturday, gave up six hits, walked none and struck out three. His ERA rose slightly to 2.25.

Joey Ortiz’s single drove in a run later in the seventh against Kevin Ginkel to make it 3-1, and the Diamondbacks got that run back in their half when Gabriel Moreno beat the relay on a bases-loaded force play.

Drew Rom (1-0), called up earlier Sunday to replace injured Brandon Woodruff, got one out in the sixth. Trevor Megill pitched the ninth for his 13th save.

Geraldo Perdomo and Corbin Carroll hit back-to-back doubles for Arizona’s first run. Perdomo’s was the 100th double of his career.

Brandon Sproat labored through four innings for the Brewers, throwing 92 pitches but giving up just the one run. He allowed five hits, walked three and struck out four.

None of the Brewers starters in the series made it to the fifth inning. Kyle Harrison was knocked out in the third inning of Friday’s game and

Woodruff was removed from the Brewers’ 4-3 loss at Arizona on Saturday in the fourth inning after striking out Adrian Del Castillo on a 75.1-mph changeup. Although Woodruff struck out the only two batters he faced in the fourth, none of the pitches he threw that inning exceeded 87.3 mph.

This had been Woodruff’s third start since coming off the injured list after an absence of almost two months.

A drop in velocity also resulted in his first trip to the injured list this season. Woodruff also was facing the Diamondbacks on April 30 when he lasted just 1 1/3 innings because the average velocity of his fastball was just 85.4 mph.

“First inning was fine, then it was kind of a slow progression of discomfort,” Woodruff said after Saturday’s game. “It’s kind of the life of my shoulder. You hope that it will hold on until the end of the year and then you reassess and make some adjustments. But it’s kind of popped up on me here.”

Woodruff has pitched well when available. The two-time All-Star is 2-2 with a 2.98 ERA in nine starts this season, though he took the loss Saturday after allowing a three-run homer to Del Castillo in the first inning.

Milwaukee relievers were outstanding in the Arizona series, allowing just three runs (two earned) in 17 2/3 innings.

Brewers LHP Shane Drohan (3-2, 3.12) starts tonight opposite Cardinals RHP Michael McGreevy (3-7, 3.12) in St. Louis.

Tigers 6,

Rangers 3

ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Riley Greene homered, tripled and drove in four runs for the Detroit Tigers in a 6-3 win Sunday over the Texas Rangers. Greene sent a two-run home run high to right field in the fourth inning and hit a two-run triple into the left-field corner during a four-run fifth inning.

Casey Mize (4-5) allowed two runs on five hits in 6 2/3 innings as the Tigers won the series rubber game to finish a 5-1 road trip. Kenley Jansen pitched a perfect ninth for his 10th save in 14 chances.

Two of Texas’ runs came on solo homers — Jake Burger in the third inning and Ezequiel Duran in the eighth.

LHP Tarik Skubal (4-4, 3.15 ERA) will start for the Tigers at home Tuesday against the Athletics.

Cubs 6,

Cardinals 4

CHICAGO (AP) — Nico Hoerner drove in two runs, Pete Crow-Armstrong had two hits, and the Chicago Cubs rallied for four runs in the sixth inning against a sloppy St. Louis defense to top the Cardinals 6-4 to avoid a series sweep.

Alex Bregman doubled in a run, pinch-hitter Pedro Ramirez had an RBI and the Cubs posted two unearned runs to win for the 10th time in their last 13 games.

St. Louis’ Jordan Walker hit his 20th homer, a three-run shot in the sixth, then drove in a fourth run with a sacrifice fly in the eighth, to boost his RBI total to 67.

Cubs LHP Matthew Boyd (3-1, 5.08) starts Tuesday at Baltimore against Orioles RHP Shane Baz (4-8, 4.19).

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