Carlos Rodon's wild fourth inning in season debut plays role in Yankees swept by Brewers
New York Yankees starting pitcher Carlos Rodon throws to the Milwaukee Brewers on May 10, 2026, in Milwaukee. Credit: AP/Jeffrey Phelps
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Brice Turang homered off David Bednar with two outs in the ninth inning, and the Brewers completed a three-game sweep of the Yankees with a 4-3 victory Sunday.
Bednar struck out Joey Ortiz and Jackson Chourio to start the ninth before Turang hit a 411-foot drive over the centerfield wall for his first MLB walk-off homer.
Milwaukee (22-16) had not swept the Yankees in a series of at least three games since August 1989. The Yankees (26-15) have lost four of their last five games after a five-game winning streak.
Aaron Judge hit a solo shot off Logan Henderson in the first inning for his 16th homer, matching Philadelphia’s Kyle Schwarber for the major league lead. Judge has seven first-inning homers this year and 92 in his career.
Two days after his debut, the Yankees' Spencer Jones got his first hit, a second-inning RBI single. He was 1-for-9 in the series with five strikeouts.
Milwaukee's Abner Uribe worked a scoreless ninth inning for the win.
Yankees starter Carlos Rodon made his season debut and held Milwaukee hitless for the first 3 2/3 innings, but the Brewers erased a two-run deficit and took the lead in the fourth inning by capitalizing on the left-hander’s wildness.
Rodon started the fourth inning by walking William Contreras and Gary Sánchez and hitting Andrew Vaughn with a pitch. Contreras was forced out at home on Luis Rengifo’s bouncer to third before Sánchez scored Milwaukee’s first run on Garrett Mitchell's sacrifice fly. Blake Perkins then got the Brewers’ first hit by lining a two-run single to center.
Rodon had surgery Oct. 15 to remove loose bodies in his left elbow and shave a bone spur. He worked 4 1/3 innings and struck out four while allowing three runs, two hits and five walks. Rodón averaged 95.7 mph with his fastball, up from 94.1 mph last year.
The Yankees tied the score 3-3 against DL Hall in the sixth on Jazz Chisholm Jr.'s two-out RBI double.
Ben Rice was 0-for-13 in the series after returning from a bruised hand that caused him to miss four games.
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