Hear Henderson sum up his 9K MLB debut in front of family and friends
Hear Logan Henderson sum up his 9K MLB debut in front of family and friends. The Brewers routed the Oakland Athletics 14-1 on Sunday, April 20, 2025 at American Family Field in Milwaukee.
SAN FRANCISCO – The most valuable contributors to an 11-3 win for the visitors Tuesday night at Oracle Park were Christian Yelich, Brice Turang, José Quintana and … the Milwaukee Brewers’ high performance department?
Prior to the offensive outburst against San Francisco Giants pitching, the Brewers had a show-and-go. No morning arrivals for coaches. No early buses for players. No on-field batting practice.
It was a suggestion from the Brewers’ high performance team to manager Pat Murphy ahead of a grueling road trip that sent the club out west for the second time in a couple of weeks.
“The one thing that we were told, that our high performance group told us, was that this, being our third long trip and second West Coast trip, that this would be the hardest on the guys bodies,” Murphy said. “It’s an 11-day trip. We were mindful of that and trying to schedule accordingly.”
More rest. More runs.
Yelich smacked his fifth career grand slam to highlight an eight-run sixth in which Jake Bauers also went deep, Turang tied a career high with four hits and Quintana picked up his third win in as many starts in a Brewers uniform as Milwaukee cruised to an eight-run victory over San Francisco.
Causation? Or just correlation?
“I think this is just one of those coincides,” Yelich said. “I don’t think it always happens. I think I’ve been a part of some shutout show-and-goes also.
“But it’s just nice to get a little bit of a breather, especially when you’re coming out on the West Coast. We’ve kind of been hopping back and forth this year.”
Christian Yelich breaks the game open with a grand slam
You have to really hit them to get the ball out at night at Oracle Park — especially to straightaway center field.
And Yelich sure clobbered one.
BOX SCORE: Brewers 11, Giants 3
At 106.6 mph off the bat, Yelich launched woebegone fastball from reliever Lou Trivino 407 feet to dead center in the sixth inning. The missile, which pushed the Milwaukee’s lead to 9-1, was Yelich’s first grand slam since April 18, 2022 against the Pirates.
The swing conjured some memories of a loud warning-track flyout Yelich hit for the final out against the Giants at Oracle Park in May 2023, a rocket off the bat that would have tied the game in the top of the ninth at almost any other stadium.
“I knew I got it really good, but you honestly never know,” Yelich said. “If we were at any other ballpark, you’re like, ‘Alright, homer.’ But here, you never really know. I felt like if that one didn’t go then it’s just not going to happen.”
Bauers followed three batters later with an even longer homer, a two-run shot to put up the Brewers’ eighth run of the inning.
Giants kick the ball around in sixth
Monday night, the Brewers were the ones playing like the baseball was made of Teflon. Tuesday night, at least in the sixth inning, it was the Giants’ turn to boot the ball.
After Jake Bauers led off with an infield single – beating out a grounder on which former Brewers shortstop Willy Adames initially broke the wrong way – Vinny Capra reached on an Adames throwing error.
A pitch from Giants starter Jordan Hicks to the next batter skipped just far enough away from catcher Patrick Bailey to allow Bauers to scamper to third, but Bailey attempted a throw behind Capra at first and flung it into right field. Bauers trotted home, pushing the Brewers’ lead to 4-1.
More quality from José Quintana
The Brewers are submitting nothing but five-star reviews on Quintana, who has come completely as advertised through his first couple of weeks.
With six innings of one-run ball, Quintana became only the second Brewers starting pitcher to allow fewer than three runs across his first three starts with the team, joining rotation mate Chad Patrick on the exclusive list.
He is also the first Brewers pitcher to win his first three starts with the club since CC Sabathia in 2008.
“I feel like I know this kid really well,” Murphy said. “I feel like he’s made 30 starts for us because he gives you that understanding of ‘I know how to pitch. I know how to get out of this thing.’”
Quintana’s third outing was cut from the same cloth as his first two. He gave up six hits and walked two, but induced plenty of weak contact – at least two of the Giants’ knocks came on broken bats and a third was on a check swing – that allowed him to wriggle off the hook each time.
It can be a frustrating at-bat for hitters, a mental grind of sorts.
“You have to have an approach against him,” Yelich said. “You can’t just roll it out there and free swing and think good things are going to happen. He’s going to feast on that.”
The southpaw lived in the strike zone with his sinker to get ahead in counts and then put batters away largely with his secondary pitches, rolling a pair of inning-ending double plays and allowing an average exit velocity of 85.2 mph overall.
The Giants are an offense that has the ability to feast on sinkers on the outer half, but Quintana saw early that they were looking for pitches up rather than out over the plate with the wind blowing in from McCovey Cove in right field. Because of that, Quintana made the adjustment and, because the Giants never reacted accordingly, he stuck with it.
“I think in the beginning they were looking up because they were taking sinkers away,” Quintana said. “We just kept to our plan and threw there and pushed them to hit the ball to right field.”
Brice Turang is ’emerging’
Brice Turang looked so comfortable in the box Tuesday that he may as well have grabbed a recliner from the clubhouse and set it up in the batter’s box.
Turang tied career highs by notching four hits and reaching base five times. Three of his hits were line-drive singles to the opposite field, Turang’s standard for being locked in at the dish, and the other was a run-scoring single as part of the sixth-inning outburst.
The exit velocities of Turang’s hits: 106.3 mph, 97.3 mph, 94.5 mph and 88.7 mph. The lowest expected batting average of them all was .420.
Similar to last year, the second baseman is off to a scorching start at the plate, bumping his average to .337 and OPS to .817 with the latest showing. But unlike a year ago, he’s still hitting the ball with force, having entered the day with an 89th percentile average exit velocity and 86th percentile expected batting average.
“He’s emerging in the game,” Murphy said. “You guys are watching it. We talked about it in spring: He’s emerging in the game. Whatever he was last year, he’s taken another step this year.”
What channel is the Brewers game on today? TV, stream
TV channel: FanDuel Sports Wisconsin Extra
Brewers lineup
Brice Turang 2BJackson Chourio LFChristian Yelich DHWilliam Contreras CSal Frelick RFJake Bauers 1BVinny Capra SSGarrett Mitchell CFCaleb Durbin 3B
Giants lineup
Heliot Ramos LFWilly Adames SSJung Hoo Lee CFMatt Chapman 3BWilmer Flores DHLuis Matos RFDavid Villar 1BPatrick Bailey CTyler Fitzgerald 2B
Brewers schedule
Brewers at Giants, 8:45 p.m. April 23. Milwaukee RHP Freddy Peralta (2-1, 1.91) vs. San Francisco RHP Logan Webb (2-1, 2.40). TV – FanDuel Sports Wisconsin. Radio – AM-620 WTMJ.
Brewers at Giants, 2:45 p.m. April 24. Milwaukee RHP Tobias Myers (season debut) vs. San Francisco RHP Landen Roupp (2-1, 4.09). TV – FanDuel Sports Wisconsin. Radio – AM-620 WTMJ.
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