Minnesota Twins vs Milwaukee Brewers Match Player Stats On Apr 02, 2024

Christian Yelich homered and Rhys Hoskins scored twice as Milwaukee held on for a 3-2 home-opener victory over the Minnesota Twins on Tuesday, giving the Brewers their first 4-0 start in 18 years.

It's the fourth time in franchise history that Milwaukee has opened the season with four consecutive wins. The 1987 team got off to the best start, going 13-0.

Elvis Peguero (2-0) got the win with two innings of relief. Abner Uribe pitched a scoreless ninth for his third save.

Milwaukee starter Jakob Junis, who pitched mostly in relief last season with San Francisco, allowed one run on three hits in four innings, striking out four and walking one.

Yelich opened the third inning with his second homer of the campaign, sending a 3-2 pitch 423 feet to center to put the Brewers up 2-0. Later in the third, Milwaukee tacked on a run when Hoskins was hit by a pitch with two outs, Oliver Dunn walked and Brice Turang sliced an RBI double to left.

Twins starter Louie Varland (0-1) needed 89 pitches to get through four innings, allowing three runs on six hits, with four strikeouts and two walks.

Minnesota scored a run in the fourth after Alex Kirilloff singled to open the inning and came around to score on a single, flyout and sacrifice fly by Matt Wallner to make it 3-1.

The Twins pulled within 3-2 with an unearned run in the seventh -- doing so without a hit -- on two walks, an error and Christian Vazquez's sacrifice fly.

Milwaukee loaded the bases with one out in the second on consecutive singles by Hoskins, Dunn and Turang. Rookie Jackson Chourio followed with an RBI single to right to make it 1-0.

Varland escaped further damage when Sal Frelick bounced into a forceout at home and William Contreras took a called third strike.

--Field Level Media