AFP, Chicago :
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit for the cycle at Cincinnati as the visiting Brewers edged the Reds 13-12 in a 10-inning Major League Baseball matchup on Wednesday.
Yelich followed his first career multi-home run game on Tuesday by completing the rare cycle – a single, double, triple and homer in the same game – with a triple in the seventh inning that drove in Lorenzo Cain from second base to pull Milwaukee level with the Reds at 10-10.
It was only the second cycle achieved in the major leagues this season, following one by Boston’s Mookie Betts against Toronto on August 9.
Yelich, 26, hit his 26th homer of the season off Cincinnati starting pitcher Matt Harvey in the fifth inning at Great American Ball Park, plating two runs. It was Yelich’s sixth homer in his past 10 games.
Yelich, who went 3-for-3 against Harvey, is batting .362 with 15 homers and 40 runs batted in over his past 45 games.
The game went into extra innings deadlocked 11-11 but Milwaukee’s Jesus Aguilar smacked a homer over the centerfield wall and Hernan Perez doubled and scored in the top of the 10th to put the Brewers ahead 13-11.
Cincinnati’s Brandon Dixon answered with a solo homer in the 10th but the Reds could not push home the tying run.
The Brewers improved to 74-60, five games behind the pace-setting Chicago Cubs in the National League Central division, while the Reds remained last in the division, falling to 57-76.
Milwaukee Brewers outfielder Christian Yelich hit for the cycle at Cincinnati as the visiting Brewers edged the Reds 13-12 in a 10-inning Major League Baseball matchup on Wednesday.
Yelich followed his first career multi-home run game on Tuesday by completing the rare cycle – a single, double, triple and homer in the same game – with a triple in the seventh inning that drove in Lorenzo Cain from second base to pull Milwaukee level with the Reds at 10-10.
It was only the second cycle achieved in the major leagues this season, following one by Boston’s Mookie Betts against Toronto on August 9.
Yelich, 26, hit his 26th homer of the season off Cincinnati starting pitcher Matt Harvey in the fifth inning at Great American Ball Park, plating two runs. It was Yelich’s sixth homer in his past 10 games.
Yelich, who went 3-for-3 against Harvey, is batting .362 with 15 homers and 40 runs batted in over his past 45 games.
The game went into extra innings deadlocked 11-11 but Milwaukee’s Jesus Aguilar smacked a homer over the centerfield wall and Hernan Perez doubled and scored in the top of the 10th to put the Brewers ahead 13-11.
Cincinnati’s Brandon Dixon answered with a solo homer in the 10th but the Reds could not push home the tying run.
The Brewers improved to 74-60, five games behind the pace-setting Chicago Cubs in the National League Central division, while the Reds remained last in the division, falling to 57-76.
