The Milwaukee Brewers got a pretty big night out of Christian Yelich on Thursday. Yelich has had an up-and-down start to the season so far but had arguably the

Christian Yelich homered twice and the Milwaukee Brewers breezed past the Pittsburgh Pirates 8-5 in a game interrupted by rain Thursday night. Yelich hit a three-run drive against rookie Mike Burrows (0-1) in the first inning and a solo shot off reliever Isaac Mattson in the sixth for the 11th multi-homer game of his career.

Yelich led the offense with two hits and a walk, scoring three runs and driving in four. Chourio also reached base three times with two hits and a walk, and Frelick added another two hits. Most of the offense was involved in the game, with just Turang and Hoskins having hitless days.