Jake Bauers key hit helps lift Brewers over White Sox

Jake Bauers ripped a two-run tiebreaking double during a three-run eighth inning to help the Milwaukee Brewers post a 6-4 victory over the host Chicago White Sox on Wednesday night.

William Contreras reached base four times on two singles and two walks as the Brewers defeated the White Sox for the second straight night and the eighth consecutive meeting. Sal Frelick also had two hits as Milwaukee won its third straight overall game.

Miguel Vargas had three hits for the White Sox, who have lost three straight games and 13 of their past 16. Luis Robert Jr. and Lenyn Sosa added two hits apiece.

Milwaukee's Trevor Megill worked around a bunt single and a walk in the ninth while recording his third save of the season.

The contest was tied at 3 prior to Milwaukee's eighth-inning uprising.

Contreras walked against Cam Booser (0-2) and Frelick followed with a bunt midway between first and second. Frelick reached for a single and Chicago second baseman Sosa threw wildly to first base to place runners on the corners.

Rhys Hoskins then drew a walk to complete a 10-pitch at-bat to load the bases. Bauers jumped on the second pitch from Booser and laced it into the gap in right center to score Contreras and Frelick and give the Brewers the lead.

Bauers scored later in the inning on Caleb Durbin's sacrifice fly to right.

Jared Koenig (2-0) pitched a scoreless seventh before giving up a lead single in the eighth to Andrew Benintendi and being removed. Benintendi scored later in the inning on Vargas' RBI single off Abner Uribe.

Milwaukee scored twice in the first inning. Contreras drove in the first with a single and scored the other when White Sox third baseman Gage Workman committed a two-out error.

Sosa had an RBI single in the second inning and Chicago added another run when Joshua Palacios was hit on his left elbow by Tobias Myers with the bases loaded.

The Brewers moved ahead 3-2 in the fourth after singles by Joey Ortiz and Durbin put runners on the corners. Vinny Capra followed with a sacrifice fly to score Ortiz.

Andrew Vaughn's two-out single in the fifth allowed Chicago to tie the score.

Chicago's Shane Smith gave up three runs (one earned) and six hits in five innings. He struck out four and walked three.

Myers pitched two innings for Milwaukee and allowed two runs and two hits. He struck out three and walked three.

--Field Level Media