Blake Perkins’ walk-off single lifts Brewers past Marlins

Blake Perkins hit a walk-off RBI single in the ninth inning and the Milwaukee Brewers avoided a three-game series sweep with a 3-2 win over the visiting Miami Marlins on Sunday.Eric Haase singled with one out in the ninth and Brice Turang followed with a double before Cade Gibson (2-5) intentionally walked Jackson Chourio to load the bases.Perkins delivered with his second career walk-off hit, depositing Gibson’s 3-2 offering into deep center field for the game-winning single.Perkins’ hit capped a late-inning comeback for Milwaukee, which trailed 2-1 with two outs in the eighth inning before tying the game on Andrew Vaughn’s RBI ground-rule double.Trevor Megill (3-2) pitched a scoreless ninth inning for the Brewers, who snapped the Marlins’ four-game winning streak.Miami took a 1-0 lead in the first inning against Brandon Woodruff when Xavier Edwards doubled to begin the game, moved to third on a groundout and scored on Kyle Stowers’ single.The Brewers pulled even in the third inning against Eury Perez when Chourio doubled in a run to extend his hitting streak to 20 games.Perez allowed one run on two hits over five innings. He walked two and struck out six.

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