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‘Big Dumper’ puts end to Brewers’ win streak, prevents burger giveaway

There’ll be no free hamburgers in Milwaukee.

And it was ‘The Big Dumper’ who spoiled the tasty reward for Brewers fans.

The Seattle Mariners defeated the Brewers, 1-0, on Tuesday, July 22, halting Milwaukee’s winning streak at 11 games. A sixth-inning solo home run by Cal Raleigh was the winning tally for Seattle. It was a league-leading 39th home for ‘The Big Dumper,’ who won the MLB Home Run Derby last week.

The Brewers came tantalizingly close to providing free hamburgers for their fans, courtesy of local restaurant chain George Webb. George Webb has a long-standing promotion that if Milwaukee’s baseball team wins 12 games in a row, the restaurant hands out free burgers. It’s only happened twice previously, in 2018 and 1987.

Cal Raleigh cooks up a dinger

Raleigh — who hit an AL-record 38 home runs before the All-Star break — clobbered his 39th of the season and remained ahead of the New York Yankees’ Aaron Judge, Arizona Diamondbacks’ Eugenio Suárez and Los Angeles Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani, each with 36.

Jacob Misiorowski strikes out seven

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