Two outs at the plate keep the Brewers from another comeback win against the Cubs

The Milwaukee Brewers were gunning for their second consecutive late-inning comeback victory over the Chicago Cubs on Tuesday afternoon.

But Ian Happ wasn't having it.

The leftfielder threw out the potential winning run at the plate in the 10th inning and the potential tying run at the plate in the 11th, sending the Brewers to a frustrating 7-6 loss at American Family Field.

Box score: Cubs 7, Brewers 6 (11 innings)

The action was fast and furious in extra innings.

Brewers rookie Clayton Andrews took the mound for the 11th and with one out threw a wild pitch, allowing Cody Bellinger to advance to third.

The play turned out to be huge as, after Andrews struck out Miguel Amaya, Nico Hoerner followed with a roller up the middle that scored Bellinger with the go-ahead run.

In the aftermath Chicago first-base coach Mike Napoli and manager David Ross both were ejected.

Raimel Tapia opened the bottom of the 11th with a swinging bunt, moving Owen Miller to third base. But on a fly out to left field by Brice Turang, Miller tagged and tried scoring only to be thrown out at the plate by Happ.

The game-ending double play dropped Milwaukee's record in extra innings to 5-2.

Facing a 6-2 deficit in the eighth, the Brewers battled back by scoring twice with two outs against a pair of Chicago pitchers as Rowdy Tellez singled and Willy Adames doubled to make it 6-4.

The at-bat by Adames was especially impressive as he fell behind in the count, 1-2, after being called for a pitch-timer violation and then yanked his two-bagger down the third-base line.

But the momentum was quickly halted when Adbert Alzolay recovered to strike Miller out on three pitches, the third a 97 mph fastball that was just off the outside corner of the plate but still too close to take.

After a scoreless ninth thrown by JB Bukauskas, Tapia and Turang opened the bottom of the inning with singles off Alzolay.

After Joey Wiemer struck out, Christian Yelich singled to center to score Tapia and make it 6-5. Jesse Winker, up next, was plunked by Alzolay to load the bases for William Contreras.

He sent a sacrifice fly to left to tie it, but Tellez struck out swinging against Alzolay to send the Brewers to extra innings for the seventh time this season.

Elvis Peguero used a big double play to navigate a scoreless 10th for the Brewers, and then the Cubs sent rookie right-hander Daniel Palencia to the mound for his major-league debut.

It appeared as though the Brewers had gotten to him when Miller singled to left with one out.

But pinch-runner Andruw Monasterio was thrown out at home by Happ after an aggressive send by third base coach Jason Lane and then to make matters worse, Miller was thrown out at second as he attempted to advance into scoring position.

While the hole wasn't quite as deep as Monday's, the Brewers still found themselves staring at an early deficit, not a great place to be with Kyle Hendricks on the mound.

A leadoff triple in the second by Seiya Suzuki followed by a two-out, opposite-field double by Yan Gomes gave the Cubs a quick 1-0 lead and Dansby Swanson opened the third with a homer to center.

Chicago doubled the deficit to 4-0 in the fifth on a sacrifice fly by Trey Mancini and two-out single by Bellinger, cashing in a single by Happ and double by Morel.

That inning ended the day for Wade Miley, who was tagged for nine hits – equal to his total allowed in his previous four starts combined – and the four runs in his toughest outing since returning from the injured list on June 17.

Hendricks, meanwhile, carved the Brewers up with his three-pitch mix of a four-seam fastball, sinker and changeup.

They didn't manage their first base runner until Winker drew a one-out walk in the fourth and didn't come up with their first hit until Miller reached on a swinging bunt down the third-base line with one out in the fifth.

The Brewers finally broke up the shutout a couple batters later when Turang singled to right.

Bryse Wilson took over for Miley in the sixth and retired the side in order, and then Milwaukee's offense chipped away at the deficit a little more.

This time it was one-out single and steal of second by Yelich that started it off.

Then with two outs, Contreras hit a squibber to the right of the mound that left him on second and allowed Yelich to score after a wide toss to first by Amaya.

Hendricks closed out the inning and his day by striking out Tellez. He scattered four hits and a walk and was charged with one earned run while fanning four over 95 pitches.

Hendricks, who was pitching against the Brewers for the first time this season, came into the day 10-8 with a 3.58 ERA in 31 starts in the teams' all-time series.

Milwaukee started its big comeback Monday against Chicago reliever Julian Merryweather, and Adames walked against him to open the Brewers' seventh, only to have the right-hander come right back and retire the next three hitters.

A two-out, two-run double by Amaya off Hoby Milner gave the Cubs a four-run cushion in the eighth.

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