Willy Adames cracked a grand slam to cap a seven-run second inning and added a solo homer in the fourth, and the Milwaukee Brewers held on for a 15-8 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks in Phoenix on Saturday night to take the second of a three-game series.
Adames finished 3-for-3 and had five RBIs to take over the National League lead with 107. He was among six Brewers to score at least two runs as Milwaukee finished with 16 hits and built a 13-run lead before Arizona scored eight unanswered in three innings.
With Milwaukee already up 4-0 in the second, Adames cleared the bases after Diamondbacks starter Brandon Pfaadt (9-9) allowed six straight two-out runners on four singles and two walks. Adames’ second long ball — his career-best 32nd — made it 12-0 in a four-run fourth.
Milwaukee (86-62) has won four of its last five and leads the National League Central by 11 games over the Chicago Cubs. Garrett Mitchell was 2-for-3 with a homer, three RBIs, three walks, and three runs, William Contreras was 2-for-4 with four RBIs and a long ball, and Brice Turang went 2-for-5.
Milwaukee right-hander Tobias Myers (8-5) went six innings walked none, struck out three, gave up nine hits, and four earned runs, all in his last two innings of work.
Pfaadt surrendered seven hits, walked three, and allowed eight runs on 58 pitches. He didn’t survive the second inning for the D-backs (82-66), who are one game behind the San Diego Padres for the NL’s top wild-card spot and have now lost nine of their last 15 games.
Randal Grichuk had three RBIs and a homer for Arizona, which remains one game ahead of the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves for the final NL wild-card berth.
Sal Frelick, Joey Ortiz, Turang and Jackson Chourio (2-for-6) hit four straight two-out singles in the second. Pfaadt walked Contreras to load the bases and walked Mitchell to bring in a run before Adames’ grand slam to left-center.
Brandon Hughes pitched 1 1/3 of scoreless relief for Arizona before Floro allowed five runs and five hits in two innings. Blake Perkins added an RBI sac fly in the sixth to make it 13-0.
Josh Bell had a two-RBI single for Arizona in the sixth, Grichuk connected on a two-run homer with no outs in the seventh, and his single in the eighth scored the D-backs’ eighth run in a row.
Hoby Milner relieved Myers and surrendered three runs in 1 1/3 innings for the Brewers. Enoli Paredes threw the final 1 2/3 for Milwaukee.