Junior Guerra obtained fifth win of the year

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José Castillo went from Aragua to Lara in negotiation of the Lvbp.

Carlos Figueroa Ruiz.- Junior Guerra pitched five blank innings to score his fifth success of the tournament and Marcus Thames dispatched two-goal home run in the fifth, in a meeting that the Brewers beat the Twins in Milwaukee 2-0.

Guerra (5-5) made 89 appearances, hit two hits, gave three tickets and prescribed eight strikeouts. The effectiveness dropped to 2.87, product of 28 clean runs allowed in 87.2 innings of 16 games.

Thames shot his 12th homerun of the season and reached 26 RBIs.

Milwaukee (50-35) is the first club with 50 wins in the National League this year.

For Minnesota, Eduardo Escobar of 2-0 (.274) with pair of tickets, Willians Astudillo of 3-0 (.357) and left-handed reliever Jose Moya retired four enemies by the route of the punch in work of two entries.

For Milwaukee, Jesus Aguilar 3-0 (.308) with one ticket and three strikeouts and Hernán Pérez 1-0 (.240).

At Wrigley Field in Chicago, the Cubs dispatched the Tigers 5-for-3.

Anthony Rizzo gave tug simple to match the board to three stripes in the fifth and the seventh pushed to go up with a shot to the box that allowed to score Jeyson Heyward. Justin Wilson (2-2) took the win, the Dominican Pedro Strop (2) got the ransom and lost the left-hander Daniel Stumpf (1-3).

For Chicago, Willson Contreras 3-2 (.280).

The twilight ax. In local baseball information, the Lara club announced that it acquired José Castillo in negotiation with Aragua, in exchange for pitcher Jesús Parra and infielder Eric Salcedo.

Castillo, 37 years old, is 12 hits to reach the thousand hits in the Lvbp. The red birds will be their sixth team in Venezuela: Leones (1999-2011), Bravos (2011-12), Caribes (2012-16), Tiburones (2016-18) and Tigres (2017-18).

Lara also got pitcher Leonel Campos, utility Wilson Garcia and outfielder Joantgel Segovia del Zulia, in exchange for pitchers César Jiménez, Gimael Troya and Jefferson Medina and catcher Gustavo Molina.