Overview
- The Brewers defeated the Mariners 22-0 on Tuesday, Aug. 18, breaking open a 1-0 game with five runs in the fifth, five in the sixth and nine in the eighth.
- Milwaukee finished with 22 runs on 22 hits, four home runs and a new franchise record for margin of victory while matching the team record for runs in a game.
- Luis Lara hit the first homer of his major-league career and Christian Yelich plus David Hamilton produced multi-RBI games that fueled the late surge.
- Seattle managed just five hits, went 0-for-6 with runners in scoring position, used infielder Leo Rivas to pitch during the eighth inning, and watched Milwaukee use catcher Gary Sánchez to close the ninth.
- The 22-0 score ties two other modern-era shutouts and, according to MLB.com, equals the largest shutout margin in major-league history going back to 1887, a result that highlights both Milwaukee’s offensive peak and the growing use of position players to protect pitching staffs in lopsided games.