Keon Broxton Lifts Brewers Over Dodgers; Dylan Covey Blanks Mariners In White Sox Win

Players of the Day for Saturday, July 21, 2018

Dylan Covey

American League

Dylan Covey blanked the Mariners for 8 1/3 innings; Joakim Soria got the final two batters in the ninth to finish off a 5-0 White Sox whitewash in Seattle.

Striking out five in his outing against the Mariners, Covey threw 105 pitches, allowing two hits and two walks, taking a no-hitter into the sixth inning. Dee Gordon's single with one out in the sixth broke up the no-hit bid, but Seattle failed to break through.

Covey, 26, took some great strides forward in his brief major league career. Last season, he was 0-7, with a 7.71 ERA. This year, in 12 starts, he's 4-5 with a 4.95 ERA.

The win was just the 15th road victory for Chicago, while the Mariners saw their hold on the second wild card spot slipping away with the loss. Oakland topped San Francisco, 5-4, in 11 innings, and are just three games behind Seattle.

The series wraps up Sunday at 4:10 pm EDT.

National League

Keon Broxton

Both the NL West and Central division races became more compressed on Saturday, as the Rockies took over second place in the West from the Diamondbacks with a 6-5 win at Arizona, while the Dodgers dropped a 4-2 decision at Milwaukee.

Those results left the Dodgers with a one-game lead over Colorado with Arizona another 1/2-game back.

In the Central, Milwaukee's win left them 2 1/2 behind the Cubs, as the Brewers snapped a seven-game losing streak.

Milwaukee's win was courtesy of outfielder Keon Broxton, who has played in just 20 games this season.

Facing Claton Kershaw, Broxton, 28, got the Brewers on the board in the second inning with a ground out that scored Ryan Braun from third, then put Milwaukee ahead by two in the sixth with a triple to right center that plated Manny Pina and sent Kershaw to the showers.

Milwaukee hosts the Dodgers in the rubber game of their three game series, Sunday at 2:10 pm EDT.