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Villar’s two HRs lift Brewers past Rangers
- Updated: September 27, 2016
ARLINGTON — Carlos Gomez drove in a pair of runs against his former team, but the Rangers slipped a half-game behind the idle Red Sox in the race for home-field advantage throughout the postseason with an 8-3 loss to the Brewers on a big Monday night for Milwaukee leadoff man Jonathan Villar.
Villar broke free from a recent funk with three hits, two home runs and five RBIs to back Brewers starter Matt Garza, who held Gomez and the Rangers to three runs in six innings in what could be the right-hander’s final start this season. The Brewers scored in bunches for Garza, with three runs in the third inning, two in the fifth on Villar’s two-run homer to left field and three more in the seventh on Villar’s three-run shot to straightaway center.
All of those runs came against Rangers starter Martin Perez, who pitched efficiently but not effectively. He surrendered a season-high eight earned runs on nine hits in 6 2/3 innings before yielding to reliever Jeremy Jeffress, the former Brewers closer who pitched for the first time since returning to the Rangers from the restricted list.
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