Tellez homers twice to help Brewers beat White Sox 6-1

MILWAUKEE (AP) — Rowdy Tellez said he'd never received a curtain call before his two-homer performance Saturday night had a sellout crowd chanting his first name.

Then the Milwaukee Brewers slugger quickly corrected himself.

“I had one in the minor leagues, I think Double-A I had one,” Tellez said after the Brewers' 6-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox. “But everything's better in the big leagues.”

Tellez went 3 of 4 with three RBIs and hit his first two homers as a Brewer since getting acquired from the Toronto Blue Jays on July 6. He delivered solo shots off José Ruiz in the sixth inning and Reynaldo López in the eighth.

After going 2 for 13 in his first nine games with his new team, Tellez is 5 of 7 with three runs and five RBIs in this series. He has gone 7 of 13 against the White Sox this season.

“It’s good to see him swing the bat," Brewers pitcher Corbin Burnes said. “That’s a big man with a lot of power. He just touches the baseball and it goes a long way.”

Tyrone Taylor and Kolten Wong also went deep for Milwaukee in front of 41,686 spectators, the Brewers' largest crowd of the season. That crowd included a sizeable contingent of White Sox fans.

Wong's homer came on Carlos Rodón’s first pitch of the night. Taylor's shot came one night after he delivered a grand slam in a 7-1 victory over the White Sox.

Burnes (6-4) struck out six and allowed four hits, two walks and one run to help the Brewers earn the 4,000th victory in franchise history. Their overall record of 4,000-4,289 includes their 1969 inaugural season as the Seattle Pilots.

Chicago committed three errors, allowed a pair of unearned runs, issued a bases-loaded walk and had a run nullified when replays showed Yoán Moncada failed to touch home...

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