The Milwaukee Brewers scored 13 runs and broke out of a power slump Tuesday night, beating the Arizona Diamondbacks 13-2 after Sal Frelick homered in the second inning and Milwaukee piled up eight runs in the sixth. Frelick’s solo shot ended a stretch of seven straight games without a homer, and Jake Woodford closed it out with the last three innings for his first save.
Frelick led off the second by driving a 1-2 pitch from Merrill Kelly 396 feet over the wall in right-center field. It was Milwaukee’s first homer since Brice Turang’s two-run shot off Miami’s Sandy Alcantara on April 18. Tyler Black finished 3 for 5 with three RBIs, and the Brewers built on a 3-0 lead in the fourth when Joey Ortiz delivered a two-out single.
Arizona briefly cut it to 3-2 in the fifth after Chad Patrick walked the bases loaded and James McCann singled home two runs, but Milwaukee answered with two runs of its own in the bottom half. Then came the inning that buried the game. The Brewers sent their first eight batters to the plate in the sixth on seven singles and a walk, with William Contreras and Jake Bauers each singling home two runs and David Hamilton adding a two-run double.
Andrew Hoffmann absorbed most of the damage in that frame, and his earned run average jumped from 2.38 to 8.49. Patrick allowed one hit in five innings and walked five for Milwaukee. The club’s seven-game homer drought was its longest since August 1999, when the franchise record was 13 straight games without a home run. That drought now sits as the longest since the April 5-11 period in 1999 only in the sense that the club had not gone this long without leaving the yard in nearly 27 years.
The night also belonged to Ildemaro Vargas, who singled in the eighth and kept his hit streak alive in all 21 games he has played this season. If his last three games from 2025 are counted, the run reaches 24 games, matching the fourth-longest single-season hitting streak in Diamondbacks history behind Luis Gonzalez’s 30-game streak in 1999. And beyond the scoreboard, fans arriving near Helfaer Field saw a newly transformed playground outside American Family Field, with updated slides, climbing structures and interactive elements adding a different kind of activity to the ballpark night.
