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- Updated: August 12, 2016
MILWAUKEE — This was a feat rarer than a perfect game, and yet many of the players involved didn’t realize it was happening.
When Orlando Arcia’s triple bounced past diving Braves center fielder Ender Inciarte in the eighth, and Jonathan Villar motored home from first for the final run of Milwaukee’s 11-3 win at Miller Park on Thursday, the Brewers became the 19th team in the last 116 years to score in every inning they came to bat.
In the same span, there have been 23 perfect games, including one in the postseason.
“I didn’t know until their first-base coach [the Braves’ Eddie Perez] mentioned it in the ninth,” said Brewers first baseman Chris Carter, who hit a two-run home run and scored twice. “I looked and I was like, ‘Oh yeah, we did score every inning.’ I didn’t even notice that. That’s pretty cool.”
Said outfielder Keon Broxton: “I had no idea that was happening.”
The Brewers scored a pair of runs in the first inning on Carter’s off-balance homer, then made it 3-0 in the second when the Braves threw out Manny Pina stealing second and Broxton scampered home on a fielder’s choice. They scored one run apiece from the second inning through the fifth, three in the sixth on Pina’s bases-clearing …
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