Yesterday the Denver Brewers
Antonio Acuna, a 3-time MGL MVP, who has been hot since the All-Star break, saw his 22-game hitting streak come to an end, but in his final at-bat of the game he did manage to drive in the tying run in the top of the 8th inning to make the score 2-2 in Montreal.
His fellow Brewers corner outfielder,
Val Guzman, continuing a strong season, hit his second home run of the game in the top of the 9th to put the finishing touches (well, other than the tense but ultimately scoreless inning of relief by
Paul Johnson to earn his 8th save) on the come from behind victory.
Guzman's 21st home run of the season was a 2-run shot that made it 5-2 Denver, which is how it would end. This is now a single season best in the homer category for
Guzman and we are still one day (and one game) away from August.
A few days earlier another multi-time league MVP, Pittsburgh's Matt Van der Heyden, saw his hitting streak end at 26 consecutive games, the longest streak of the 1983 season in the WPK.