Freddy Peralta pitched six scoreless innings, and William Contreras ended a five-run fifth inning with a two-run home run, leading the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-3 win over the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday night.
Peralta (9-7) gave up two walks and a hit by Thairo Estrada through five innings as the Brewers built a 5-0 lead. The Giants tried to make a comeback in the sixth with a two-out single by Tyler Fitzgerald and a walk before Peralta struck out Heliot Ramos and let out a yell as he walked off the mound.
“It was an exciting moment for me,” Peralta said after striking out eight, giving up only two hits, and walking three. “The last couple of games I didn’t have my normal strikeouts. Fastball was the key today.”
“Freddy was fantastic,” Brewers manager Pat Murphy said. “William did a great job with him. I liked how he stayed after it.”
Contreras agreed with that.
“I like his execution,” Contreras said through an interpreter. “He came out early and was attacking the zone. It’s what I always tell him, ‘Just get after it and attack the zone.’”
Kyle Harrison (7-6) allowed a single to Blake Perkins with one out in the first inning and then retired 11 of the next 12 batters before the Brewers scored in the fifth.
“It just happened quickly on him,” Giants manager Bob Melvin said. “Shoot, I thought at the time that he might go six innings. They got three pretty good at-bats off him in a row, unfortunately, and it added up to five runs.”
Jackson Chourio’s RBI single started the scoring, all with two outs. After a visit to the mound, Perkins hit a two-run double off the wall in left-center.
Contreras smashed a first-pitch changeup from the rookie left-hander for his 18th home run of the season. That was the end for Harrison, who left after striking out seven and walking three in his 23rd start of the season.
