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Payback? Braun bests Marshall on huge night
- Updated: August 7, 2016
PHOENIX — Ryan Braun scored some payback on the way to matching the Brewers’ record for RBIs in a game Saturday night in a 15-6 victory for Milwaukee.
Braun hit a pair of three-run home runs, the first against a D-backs reliever who plunked him in their only other meeting, and joined Jonathan Lucroy as the only players in franchise history to drive in seven runs in multiple games. It was the Brewers’ second seven-RBI game this season; Aaron Hill had one against the Reds in May.
“I feel good. Even my outs are hit hard,” Braun said. “With the current complexion of our lineup, I know that it’s going to be important for me to make sure I’m getting strikes. They’re being really careful about trying to throw a lot of pitches off the plate. The key is making sure I swing at strikes.”
That’s what he did in the sixth inning against Arizona reliever Evan Marshall. They had met once before, on June 17, 2014, during an especially tense Brewers-D-backs series, when Marshall received a standing ovation from the Chase Field …
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