It was a matchup of two young pitchers who have been dominating to start 2026, Cam Schlittler and Kyle Harrison. Offense would be at a premium, that was certain.
The Brewers nearly were able to knock Schlittler out of the game in the first inning, after William Contreras ripped a 108.5 MPH comebacker off of Schlittler’s calf for an infield single. He hobbled around gingerly and his first test pitch sailed to the backstop. He pushed through to remain in the game, but was slow walking off the field after the inning.
He continued on and showed no ill effects from that hit and completed six innings, allowing just two hits while striking out six.
Kyle Harrison, meanwhile, lost the shutout on the first batter of the game, allowing a no-doubt home run to 38 year old leadoff hitter and notorious Brewers killer Paul Goldschmidt. Then in the 2nd inning, Harrison walked Amed Rosario and Jazz Chisholm with nobody out. He got out of it with no runs allowed, though. Then in the 4th, the Yankees went double-single-walk to load the bases with nobody out. Harrison nearly got out of that one, until a Goldschmidt hot shot to third was unable to be fielded cleanly by Luis Rengifo, resulting in an infield single and a run scoring to make it 2-0 Yankees.
Pat Murphy turned to Chad Patrick out of the bullpen to begin the 5th inning. With days off Tuesday and Thursday this week and another one on Monday, the Brewers won’t need a fifth starter for a while, so this helps keep Patrick on some sort of normal schedule. Patrick was able to settle things down and kept the Yankees off the board in his three innings of work.
The Yankees turned to their bullpen in the 7th inning and Jake Bauers was very happy to see it, taking the first pitch he saw, a middle-middle fastball from Brent Headrick, into the second deck in right to cut the deficit in half. The Brewers then added on in the 8th with some classic small ball, starting with a Brice Turang single, then Turang stole second base, then William Contreras delivered an RBI single to left to tie the game up at 2-2.
With both teams unable to score in the 9th, to extra innings we went. Aaron Ashby was so close to getting through a scoreless 10th and had Ryan McMahon down 0-2, but a single through the middle gave the Yankees a 3-2 lead before Aaron Judge was caught heading to third.
In the bottom of the 10th, Garrett Mitchell was the Manfred Man on 2nd base. A wild pitch put him on third base before Luis Rengifo walked. Gary Sanchez pinch hit for David Hamilton and lifted a fly ball to shallow right field. Mitchell thought about tagging, but pulled up as the throw from Judge was on line, but it was high. Then Jackson Chourio was able to deliver an RBI single to tie the game up at 3-3.
With runners on first and second and one out, Brice Turang hits a tapper to the pitcher Tim Hill. Hill, inexplicably, decided to throw the ball to third base to try to get Rengifo, and ends up hitting Rengifo in the hand, leaving the bases loaded for William Contreras.
Contreras lofted a fly ball deep enough to right field to score Rengifo and the Brewers walk off the Yankees 4-3.
Aaron Ashby ends up with his league-leading 7th win of the season, the Brewers win the series, and have a chance to sweep on Mother’s Day.
