Prince Fielder ties Brewers’ single-season RBI record with homer in Milwaukee’s win

Fielder homers in Brewers win over D-Backs

PHOENIX — Prince Fielder homered to tie Milwaukee’s single-season RBI record, Alcides Escobar had a two-run single in a four-run seventh inning and the Brewers completed a three-game sweep of Arizona in a 5-3 victory.

Fielder’s fourth-inning home run, his 39th of the season, gave him a major league-leading 126 RBIs and tied him with Cecil Cooper for the Brewers’ franchise record. Cooper, Houston Astros’ manager, had 126 RBIs in 1983.

Fielder, who had two hits, singled off left-hander Daniel Schlereth (0-4) to open the Brewers’ four-run seventh inning, when they took a 5-2 lead.

Corey Hart walked and Mike Rivera singled with one out to load the bases before Escobar grounded a single to right field to drive in two runs for a 3-2 lead. It was his 10th hit in 16 at-bats against left-handers this season.

With two outs, Felipe Lopez drove in a run with a chopping infield single. Mike Cameron capped the inning with another RBI single for a 5-2 lead.

Carlos Villanueva, the fourth of seven Milwaukee pitchers, retired all six batters he faced to improve to 3-10.

Trevor Hoffman got his 32nd save in 35 chances with a perfect ninth.

Milwaukee (69-73) has won three straight after losing five of six. The Brewers had 20 runs and 37 hits in the series after scoring 10 runs in their previous six games.

Chris Young’s two-run home run in the fourth inning of fill-in starter Chris Narveson gave Arizona a 2-1 lead, its first lead in the series.

Young has six home runs in nine games, a streak that began with a three-homer game in Colorado on Sept. 6. He has 13 homers this season.

Arizona (62-82) had lost nine of 10 and is 20 games under .500 for the first time this season.

Narveson did not allow a hit in the first three innings before leaving after giving up three straight hits to open the fourth. He replaced Manny Parra, who was scratched Saturday because of neck stiffness.

Arizona starter Max Scherzer gave up one run, Fielder’s homer, and three hits in six innings. He struck out five and walked two.

Ryan Roberts singled in Eric Byrnes in the seventh, after Byrnes’ one-out pinch-hit double.

Lopez and Escobar had two hits for the Brewers.

NOTES: Milwaukee right-hander Seth McClung threw 45 pitches in a simulated game Sunday morning and will remain in Arizona to pitch in the instructional league Wednesday. McClung has been on the disabled list since July 25 with a sprained elbow. Milwaukee infielder Craig Counsell, the MVP of Arizona’s 2001 NLCS victory over Atlanta, received a nice ovation when he entered the game as a pinch runner in the eighth. Escobar took a hit away from Rusty Ryal in the sixth inning, ranging far into the hole and side-arming a perfect throw to first base from six feet in the outfield grass to beat Ryal by a step. Milwaukee right-hander Mark DiFelice was removed with a right shoulder strain after facing three batters in the fourth inning.