Major League Baseball
Milwaukee 4, Oakland 2
When: 10:07 PM ET, Wednesday, July 31, 2019
Where: RingCentral Coliseum, Oakland, California
Temperature: 69°
Umpires: Home - Nick Mahrley, 1B - Cory Blaser, 2B - Jeff Nelson, 3B - Jim Wolf
Attendance: 14864

Lorenzo Cain hit the second pitch of the game for a home run, and Jordan Lyles threw five strong innings in his Milwaukee debut Wednesday night, sending the Brewers to a 4-2 victory over the host Oakland Athletics in the second game of their three-game interleague series.

Lyles (6-7), who had been winless in eight starts for Pittsburgh dating to May 28 before being acquired by the Brewers in a trade Monday, checked the A's on three hits before leaving with a 3-1 lead. The right-hander walked two and struck out four.

Lyles was starting in place of left-hander Gio Gonzalez, who had to be scratched because of shoulder soreness.

The Brewers, who lost the series opener 3-2 in 10 innings on Tuesday night, never trailed after Cain took Brett Anderson (9-7) deep for his eighth homer of the season, his first leading off a game since last August against the Chicago Cubs.

Orlando Arcia scored on a Christian Yelich double in the third inning, Yasmani Grandal on a Mike Moustakas infield out in the fourth and pinch runner Ben Gamel on a Lou Trivino wild pitch in the eighth, as the Brewers managed to stay a step ahead of the A's.

Oakland's runs came in the third on a Matt Chapman sacrifice fly, which got the A's within 2-1, and on a Jurickson Profar pinch-hit double in the seventh that again made it a one-run game at 3-2.

In remaining winless in his last four starts, Anderson worked seven innings, allowing three runs and eight hits. He struck out three and did not issue a walk.

The Milwaukee bullpen limited the A's to one run over the final four innings, with Matt Albers, Jeremy Jeffress and Junior Guerra working an inning apiece before Josh Hader pitched a scoreless ninth for his 24th save.

Hader, who served up Matt Olson's walk-off home run in the 10th inning of the series opener, retired Marcus Semien -- representing the potential game-tying run -- on a pop fly to end the game.

Arcia and Ryan Braun collected two hits apiece for the Brewers, who snapped a two-game losing streak.

Profar and Chris Herrmann had two hits each for the A's, who fell to 3-3 on their nine-game homestand.

The Brewers out-hit the A's 9-7.

--Field Level Media

Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Milwaukee   Oakland
Jordan Lyles Player Brett Anderson
Win W/L Loss
5.0 IP 7.0
4 Strikeouts 3
3 Hits 8
1.80 ERA 3.86
Hitting
Milwaukee   Oakland
Orlando Arcia Player Jurickson Profar
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 3
.500 Avg 1.000
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Milwaukee 9 1 16 .257 14 5 3 3 0 1
Oakland 7 0 11 .212 15 8 2 3 0 0