For the second straight night, the Brewers used the help of a mistake made by third baseman Royce Lewis to tie the game, making way for the offense to take care of business later on. Tonight’s win secures their seventh series win over their last nine.
Despite a lack of offense from both sides, the Minnesota Twins were threatening early on in the bottom of the second inning. Josh Bell singled, and Kody Clemens doubled to put two runners in scoring position with no outs. After Lewis struck out, Logan Henderson gave up a walk to load the bases. With the Twins set up for a large inning, Henderson prevailed, striking out back-to-back batters to escape the bases-loaded jam and keep the game scoreless at 0-0.
Later on, the Twins struck first as Trevor Larnach hit a two-out solo home run to give them a 1-0 lead. It wound up being the lone run the Twins scored against the Brewers pitching staff.
With the two young pitchers in the middle of a pitchers’ duel, the Brewers were looking for their first real threat in the ballgame. Brice Turang led off the top of the fourth inning with a single to right field, then Andrew Vaughn was able to add a second runner on base with a walk of his own. For the second straight night, an error by Lewis helped Milwaukee get on the board, as Luis Rengifo reached to score Turang from second to tie the game at 1-1.
A couple of innings later, Jackson Chourio continued his hot start to the road trip as he slugged his first home run of the 2026 season over the left-center field wall to give the Crew their first lead of the night at 2-1. This was the first of his two hits on the night, making it a total of four hits to start the road trip for the Brewers.
Henderson was pulled from the ballgame in the bottom of the sixth inning for Chad Patrick. Henderson finished his night with a stellar outing, and on top of it all, engraving his name among some of the best in franchise history. First, Henderson struck out seven batters while allowing just one run on six hits. Secondly, he moved up to second for the most strikeouts with 56 through his first nine career games. The only person with more? Old friend Freddy Peralta, who struck out 63.
After using all of their big arms in the opening game of the series, the Brewers could’ve trotted out their tandem closer duo, but instead they opted out after the night Patrick was having. Patrick finished the night with four innings pitched, striking out three, allowing one hit, and continuing to prove that he can pitch in any kind of situation. He earned his first MLB save, and his first save on the baseball field since his collegiate days at Purdue University Northwest.
The Brewers’ 2-1 victory over the Twins tonight was their first road win scoring two or fewer runs this season. It was also their eighth victory over their last nine games, bringing their month of May record to 10-3 overall.
Although it hasn’t officially been announced, tomorrow has the possibility of being another day of young pitching talent going for the Brewers on the mound, as the speculation leads us to believe that Robert Gasser will be throwing his first pitch for the Brewers since September 27 of last year. One thing we do know for tomorrow is that the right-hander Bailey Ober will be taking the rock for the Twins in the series finale as they try to salvage one win of the Border Battle. First pitch is at 1:10 p.m.