Brewers Bury the Mariners 22-0, Tying a Shutout Record That Has Stood Since 1888
Milwaukee turned a quiet Tuesday at American Family Field into baseball history — and stretched the best record in the majors while doing it.
Every so often a regular-season game wanders into the record books. On Tuesday night in Milwaukee, the Brewers beat the Seattle Mariners 22-0, tying the largest shutout margin in Major League Baseball since 1888, according to theScore. Only two other teams in the modern era had ever won a game 22-0: the 1975 Pirates and the 2004 Indians.
How it unraveled
The strangest part is that this was a 1-0 game into the fifth inning. Then Milwaukee scored five in the fifth, five in the sixth and nine in the eighth. David Hamilton homered twice, Luis Lara hit the first home run of his career, and Christian Yelich and Jake Bauers also went deep. Garrett Mitchell went 4-for-6, and every Brewers batter reached base and scored — only Brice Turang finished without a hit.
Seattle's night was as grim as the line score suggests: five hits, four errors (two charged to catcher Cal Raleigh), and a moment that will live on highlight reels for the wrong reasons — Julio Rodríguez flipped a live ball into the stands after losing track of the outs. Starter Bryce Miller was tagged for six runs in 4⅔ innings, and by the eighth, infielder Leo Rivas was pitching, giving up nine runs. Milwaukee answered the position-player-pitching bit with one of its own: catcher Gary Sánchez threw a clean ninth.
Why it matters beyond the trivia
The win pushed Milwaukee to 78-48, the best record in baseball, and kept the NL Central lead at 4.5 games over the Cubs (74-53), who held serve with a 4-3 crosstown win over the White Sox the same night. The Brewers have outscored opponents by 158 runs — also the biggest run differential in the majors.
For Seattle, the loss dropped the Mariners to 59-67, four games behind a .500 Astros team in an AL West that nobody seems to want. The division race that looked like a three-team scrap in July is quietly becoming a question of whether anyone in it can finish above .500.