Milwaukee Brewers at Kansas City Royals

· Doubleheader - Game 1

Milwaukee Brewers

6-1, 1-0 Away

Final
5 - 2

Kansas City Royals

3-4, 2-2 Home

Mitchell provides all the Brewers offense in 5-2 win over Royals to open their split doubleheader

Chad Patrick (1-0) scattered four hits and three walks over five scoreless innings for the Brewers. Aaron Ashby and Abner Uribe took over and handed a three-run lead to All-Star closer Trevor Megill, whose two-out walk to Bobby Witt Jr. in the ninth brought the tying run to the plate.

Megill struck out Vinnie Pasquantino with a 98 mph fastball to end the game, much to the delight of the resident “rally tortoise” hanging out in the Milwaukee clubhouse these days.

Mitchell did all of his damage against Luinder Avila (0-1), who made his first major league start for Kansas City after pitching out of the bullpen as a rookie last season. He allowed all five runs on eight hits and two walks in three-plus innings.

Avila was recalled from Triple-A Omaha to start Friday night in place of Michael Wacha, who was scratched because of an illness. That game wound up getting postponed 90 minutes before first pitch because of an approaching storm, setting up the doubleheader.

Mitchell, who had driven in five runs total during a 5-1 season-opening homestand, picked up two RBI with his two-out double in the first. Two innings later, Mitchell hit Avila's two-out pitch an estimated 420 feet to right-center to give Milwaukee a 5-0 lead.

The Royals had a runner cut down at the plate in the second inning and stranded two more at third before Lane Thomas' RBI single in the seventh. Witt made it 5-2 with his hard-hit single before the Brewers bullpen got out of the inning.

Kansas City's own relief crew wound up pitching six innings of two-hit ball.

Up next The nightcap of the doubleheader featured the original Saturday afternoon matchups. RHP Brandon Sproat (0-0, 21.00 ERA) was on the mound for Milwaukee while RHP Seth Lugo (1-0, 0.00) got the start for Kansas City.

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Scoring Summary

	9th Inning	Pasquantino struck out looking.
	9th Inning	Witt Jr. walked, Thomas to second.
	9th Inning	Garcia struck out swinging.
	9th Inning	Thomas walked.
	9th Inning	Loftin flied out to center.
	9th Inning	Megill relieved Uribe

Statistics

MIL		KC
1	Games Played	1
1	Team Games Played	1
0	Hit By Pitch	0
11	Ground Balls	10
12	Strikeouts	9
5	Runs Batted In	2
0	Sacrifice Hit	0
10	Hits	8
0	Stolen Bases	1
6	Walks	6
0	Catcher Interference	0
5	Runs	2
1	Ground Into Double Play	1
0	Sacrifice Flies	0
34	At Bats	33
1	Home Runs	0
0	Grand Slam Home Runs	0
17	Runners Left On Base	21
0	Triples	0
1	Game Winning RBIs	0
0	Intentional Walks	0
4	Doubles	3
11	Fly Balls	14
2	Caught Stealing	1
175	Pitches	163
0	Games Started	0
0	Pinch At Bats	2
0	Pinch Hits	1
0.0	Player Rating	0.0
1	Is Qualified	1
1	Is Qualified In Steals	1
17	Total Bases	11
40	Plate Appearances	39
162.0	Projected Home Runs	0.0
5	Extra Base Hits	3
5.8	Runs Created	4.0
.294	Batting Average	.242
.000	Pinch Hit Average	.500
.500	Slugging Percentage	.333
.324	Secondary Average	.273
.400	On Base Percentage	.359
.900	OBP Pct + SLG Pct	.692
1.0	Ground To Fly Ball Ratio	0.7
5.8	Runs Created Per 27 Outs	4.0
41.0	Batter Rating	23.0
34.0	At Bats Per Home Run	0.0
0.00	Stolen Base Percentage	0.50
4.38	Pitches Per Plate Appearance	4.18
.206	Isolated Power	.091
0.50	Walk To Strikeout Ratio	0.67
.150	Walks Per Plate Appearance	.154
.029	Secondary Average Minus Batting Average	.030
10.0	Runs Produced	4.0
1.0	Runs Ratio	1.0
0.6	Patience Ratio	0.4
0.4	Balls In Play Average	0.3
88.0	MLB Rating	75.0
0.0	Offensive Wins Above Replacement	0.0
0.0	Wins Above Replacement	0.0