Brewers’ Christian Yelich sinks Red Sox with walk-off grand slam, the first walk-off HR of his career

Christian Yelich awakened Tuesday having by no means hit a walk-off house run in his 12-plus season MLB profession.

He ended the drought in grand style Tuesday night time.

Together with his Milwaukee Brewers and the Boston Purple Sox knotted in a 1-1 tie within the backside of the tenth inning, Yelich tripled the sport’s run tally with one swing of his bat.

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After Jorey Ortiz was given second base as a result of it was additional innings, the Brewers loaded the bases with a Brice Turang single and a Jackson Chourio stroll. William Contreras flied out, bringing Yelich to the plate.

Yelich watched a first-pitch ball and a second-pitch strike and not using a swing. When Liam Hendricks left a third-pitch slider over the center of the plate, Yelich unleashed. And there was little question about this one.

As quickly as Yelich made contact, everything of American Household Subject knew it was gone. The ball traveled deep over the suitable subject wall for a walk-off grand slam and a 5-1 Brewers win.

Earlier than that blast, Yelich had hit 213 profession house runs within the common season. None of them had been of the walk-off selection. Now Yelich is aware of among the finest emotions in baseball that he did not earlier than.

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“It was kind of a weird feeling going around the bases knowing that the game’s over,” Yelich told reporters postgame. “Obviously, I’ve never done that before.”

Yelich’s heroics offered the Brewers with a much-needed win as they improved to .500 at 28-28 in a crowded NL Central and race for the NL wild card. Additionally they offered a lift to the previous MVP, who’s off to a sluggish begin this season and entered Tuesday’s recreation flirting with the Mendoza Line with a .205/.294/.364 slash line with 9 house runs and 30 RBI.

Yelich completed the night time going 2 for five on the plate with two runs scored and the grand slam offering all 4 of his RBI.