MILWAUKEE: It was Ryan Braun’s day at American Family Field, and what a fitting finish.
After rejecting a comeback offer in the eighth inning, they mounted another at the bottom of the ninth, when Daniel Vogelbach connected against Cardinal Alex Reyes to win 6-5 at Milwaukee in a grand slam.
Vogelbach joined MLB’s “ultimate slam” club with his clutch blast, becoming the 28th player on record to hit a bases-laden homer as his team enters its final three-bat. races.
It was the Brewers’ eighth grand slam in franchise history, and the first since Braun against the Pirates on September 25, 2008, as that team was pushing for the postseason. This brewing team is doing the same and lowered their magic number until they reached the 14th Central National League with Sunday’s comeback win and Reds defeat.
It was also MLB’s sixth grand slam on Sunday, tied for second place in a single event in league history, with May 21, 2000 (pending the inclusion of Black League statistics). The only appointment with more was on June 3, 2017, when there were seven hits in the entire league.