Brice Turang homered off David Bednar with two outs in the ninth inning on Sunday, lifting the Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-3 victory over the New York Yankees and sealing a three-game sweep. Turang sent a 411-foot drive over the center-field wall for his first big league walk-off homer.
The Brewers had not swept the Yankees in a series of at least three games since August 1989, and the finish capped a weekend in which Milwaukee beat one of the sport’s biggest names with timely power and late-inning poise. Abner Uribe worked a scoreless ninth inning for Milwaukee before Turang ended it, completing a series that pushed the Brewers’ interleague record since 2022 to 116-65.
Aaron Judge gave New York the start it wanted by hitting a solo home run off Logan Henderson in the first inning. It was Judge’s 16th homer of the season, his seventh first-inning homer this year and the 92nd first-inning homer of his career. The Yankees also got a spark from Spencer Jones, who picked up his first hit two days after his debut with a second-inning RBI single. But Jones finished the series 1 for 9 with five strikeouts, and Ben Rice went 0 for 13 in the series after returning from a bruised hand that kept him out for four games.
Milwaukee answered after Carlos Rodón, making his season debut, held the Brewers hitless for the first 3 2/3 innings. Rodón walked William Contreras and Gary Sánchez and hit Andrew Vaughn with a pitch in the fourth, and Milwaukee turned the opening into three runs. Garrett Mitchell drove in the first run with a sacrifice fly, and Blake Perkins followed later with a two-run single to center for the Brewers’ first hit. Rodón, who had surgery on Oct. 15 to remove loose bodies in his left elbow and shave a bone spur, worked 4 1/3 innings and allowed three runs, two hits and five walks while striking out four. He averaged 95.7 mph with his fastball.
The Yankees tied it in the sixth on Jazz Chisholm Jr.’s two-out RBI double, but Milwaukee kept coming in a game that showed how its matchup edge has held even against top competition. The Brewers are 14-7 against American League teams this season and 8-9 against National League squads, a split that helps explain why this club keeps finding answers when the schedule gets harder. On this night, the answer came from Turang, and it came just before the game slipped away from New York for good.
