Brewers spoil Drew Rasmussen reunion game with Rays

Christian Yelich went 2-for-4, with a home run and two runs scored, and the Milwaukee Brewers snapped a three-game losing streak with a 4-2 win against the host Tampa Bay Rays on Sunday.Reliever Tyler Alexander (2-3) was perfect through 1 2/3 innings to earn the win. Closer Trevor Megill did the same in the ninth for the save.Rays starting pitcher Drew Rasmussen (1-4) gave up three runs on four hits, including two homers, in five innings in his first appearance against his former team. The Rays had won two straight.After Tampa Bay tied it in the fourth, the Brewers went ahead 3-2 in the fifth. Jake Bauers drew a lead-off walk, advanced to third on Joey Ortiz’s single, and scored on a Caleb Durbin ground-out.In the eighth, Yelich led off with a single and stole second with William Contreras at the plate. He scored to make it 4-2 when Rhys Hoskins connected for a ground-ball single to left.Milwaukee had just one baserunner through the first three innings, a single from Bauers in the third. Down by one entering the fourth, they connected on back-to-back home runs to grab the lead.With one out, Yelich sent a cutter into the left field deck to tie it 1-1 and Contreras followed, launching a sinker 107.9 miles per hour off his bat to right-center to make it 2-1.

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