Tellez hits tying HR, Adames winning single, Brews beat Rays

Raucous Tellez hit a tying home run in the 10th inning and made a vital cautious play in the tenth, setting up Willy Adames' down-finishing RBI single that gave the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-3 win over the Tampa Bay Rays on Wednesday.

Adames had struck out in his past three at-bats before he came up in the tenth following a deliberate stroll to Christian Yelich. His grounder off Ryan Thompson (3-3) moved beyond plunging shortstop Taylor Walls and scored programmed sprinter Tyrone Taylor from a respectable halfway point.

"I generally get energized," Adames said about the free pass to Yelich. "It is similar to siphons me up. I must do it now."

Milwaukee supervisor Craig Counsell said: "I generally feel that works on something for the hitter, a smidgen. It implies they need to confront you, and I simply feel that provides you with a smidgen of extra. You're having an extreme day yet you have a shot to dominate the match, and it's a fresh-out-of-the-box new at-bat and a shiny new game."

Milwaukee finished a two-game breadth of Tampa Bay and moved inside one-half round of NL Central-driving St. Louis, which was playing at Colorado on Wednesday night. The Brewers are 3-5 since exchanging nearer Josh Hader to San Diego at the cutoff time.

The Rays fell even with division rival Baltimore for the last AL trump card.

In the highest point of the tenth, first baseman Tellez handled Walls' grounder and tossed to third to chop down programmed sprinter Francisco Mejía. Catcher Victor Caratini then, at that point, tossed out Walls attempting to take second.

Devin Williams (3-2) finished the inning by striking out Jose Siri.

Tellez, who entered as a special hitter in the 6th, began the 10th with his 23rd homer, a drive to focus off Colin Poche that made it 3-3.

"I've played against two or multiple times. I don't think I've at any point got a hit. I assume I struck out each and every time," Tellez said. "Truly, in that 3-2 count, simply needed to see something up in the zone and attempt to hit a ball the alternate way, hit a line drive, get on base, get going the inning. I had the option to put a decent swing on it. The ball completed."

Randy Arozarena hit his first home run since July 17, a 431-foot shot off Milwaukee starter Brandon Woodruff in the seventh that put the Rays ahead 3-2. Yu Chang homered in the fifth off Woodruff, who permitted three sudden spikes in demand for four hits in seven innings.

With Tampa Bay driving 3-2 in the eighth, Milwaukee reliever Hoby Milner came on with the bases stacked and one out. He struck out Brandon Lowe and Isaac Paredes on called third strikes.

"Milner's extreme, holds the ball down, yet might want to believe that we can come down on the safeguard not too far off with some contact, yet we couldn't do that," Tampa Bay chief Kevin Cash said.

Beams starter Jeffrey Springs surrendered two runs in five innings while striking out eight.

Milwaukee took a 2-0 lead in the main thanks to some extent to a couple of delicate fly balls that arrived for singles in shallow left field.

Andrew McCutchen multiplied, then, at that point, scored on Mike Brosseau's single. Springs has then required a recoil while pitching to Hunter Renfroe, strolled Renfroe, and surrendered a solitary by Keston Hiura that scored Brosseau.

David Peralta got the Rays on the board with an RBI single in the third.

Beams: RHP J.P. Feyereisen (shoulder) will go through an MRI on Thursday after he didn't feel well his last time tossing. He has been on the harmed list since June 3.

Brewers: RHP Adrian Houser (elbow) has a restoration appearance for Triple-A Nashville on Thursday.

TWO-BOUNCER, TWO-HANDER

Milwaukee finished Tampa Bay's fourth inning when Adames went worse than broke among shortstop and third to catch Arozarena's grounder, planted hard, and tossed a two-container to Hiura from the beginning. Hiura needed to extend toward right field to scoop the ball before arriving on two hands while keeping a foot on the pack. ... Brewers focus defender Tyrone Taylor rushed to one side and did a head-first plunge to grab a line drive from Mejía in the fifth. ... Focus defender Siri did a somersault and shoulder shimmy after plunging to get a sinking liner from Yelich in the fifth.

The Rays have won only one of six series since the All-Star break. Entering Wednesday, they were averaging 3.41 runs per game since the break, toward the end in the AL.