Turang's homer off Bednar in 9th helps Brewers complete sweep with 4-3 win over Yankees
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brice Turang homered off David Bednar with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Milwaukee Brewers completed a three-game sweep of the New York Yankees with a 4-3 victory Sunday. Bednar (1-3) struck out Joey Ortiz and Jackson Chourio to start the ninth before Turang hit a 411-foot drive over the center-field wall for his first big league walk-off homer. Milwaukee had not swept the Yankees in a series of at least three games since August 1989.
The Brewers improved their interleague record since 2022 to a major league-best 116-65. They are 14-7 against American League teams and 8-9 against National League squads this season. New York's Aaron Judge hit a solo shot off Logan Henderson in the first inning for his 16th homer, matching Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber for the major league lead.
Judge has seven first-inning homers this year and 92 in his career. Two days after his debut, the Yankees' Spencer Jones got his first hit, a second-inning RBI single. Milwaukee's Abner Uribe (2-1) worked a scoreless ninth inning.
Yankees starter Carlos Rodón made his season debut and held Milwaukee hitless for the first 3 2/3 innings, but the Brewers erased a two-run deficit and took the lead in the fourth inning by capitalizing on the left-hander’s wildness. Rodón started the fourth inning by walking William Contreras and Gary Sánchez and hitting Andrew Vaughn with a pitch. Contreras was forced out at home on Luis Rengifo’s bouncer to third before Sánchez scored Milwaukee’s first run on Garrett Mitchell's sacrifice fly.
Blake Perkins then got the Brewers’ first hit by lining a two-run single to center. Rodón had surgery Oct. 15 to remove loose bodies in his left elbow and shave a bone spur.