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Durbin and Turang hit back-to-back doubles in the 8th to help the Brewers top the Pirates
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Durbin and Turang hit back-to-back doubles in the 8th to help the Brewers top the Pirates

2025-05-26 05:02 Last Updated At:05:11

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Caleb Durbin and Brice Turang hit back-to-back doubles in the eighth inning to help the Milwaukee Brewers top the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-5 on Sunday.

Durbin sent a sweeper from Ryan Borucki (1-2) to the track in left field, driving in two and tying it at 5. Turang brought him home with a ball down the line in left.

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Pittsburgh Pirates' Oneil Cruz rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Oneil Cruz rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Adam Frazier scores during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Adam Frazier scores during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Milwaukee Brewers' Brice Turang watches his RBI double during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Milwaukee Brewers' Brice Turang watches his RBI double during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Milwaukee Brewers' Caleb Durbin celebrates in the dugout after scoring during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Milwaukee Brewers' Caleb Durbin celebrates in the dugout after scoring during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Jared Koenig (3-1) got the win despite allowing two runs in 1 2/3 innings. Trevor Megill struck out two in the ninth while recording his ninth save.

Adam Frazier drove in three runs for Pittsburgh, including two on a two-out double that put the Pirates ahead 5-3 in the seventh. He hit an RBI single in the sixth before Tommy Pham tied it at 3 on a single to left.

The Brewers scored three off Bailey Falter in the first before Oneil Cruz cut it to 3-1 with a massive drive in the third.

Cruz's team-leading 11th homer had a 122.9 mph exit velocity for the hardest-hit ball since Statcast began tracking in 2015. He sent a fastball from Logan Henderson 432 feet into the Allegheny River past the Clemente Wall in right for his third homer in three games.

Henderson, a 23-year-old rookie who won his first three starts in the majors, struck out six in five innings.

Durbin fouled off the first five pitches before hitting his tying double in the eighth.

Cruz already had the record for the hardest-hit ball on a 122.4 mph single on Aug. 24, 2022. Giancarlo Stanton had the hardest-hit homer at 121.7 mph while with Miami on Aug. 9, 2017.

Brewers: RHP Chad Patrick (2-4, 3.23 ERA) takes the mound on Monday against Boston. LHP Garrett Crochet (4-3, 1.98 ERA) starts for the Red Sox.

Pirates: LHP Andrew Heaney (3-3, 2.91 ERA) starts on Monday in the opener of a three-game series in Arizona. RHP Ryne Nelson (1-1, 4.60 ERA) gets the ball for the Diamondbacks.

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Pittsburgh Pirates' Oneil Cruz rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Oneil Cruz rounds the bases after hitting a home run during the third inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Adam Frazier scores during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Pittsburgh Pirates' Adam Frazier scores during the sixth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Milwaukee Brewers' Brice Turang watches his RBI double during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Milwaukee Brewers' Brice Turang watches his RBI double during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Milwaukee Brewers' Caleb Durbin celebrates in the dugout after scoring during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Milwaukee Brewers' Caleb Durbin celebrates in the dugout after scoring during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Pittsburgh Pirates, Sunday, May 25, 2025, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Matt Freed)

Glenn Hall, a Hockey Hall of Famer whose ironman streak of 502 starts as a goaltender remains an NHL record, has died. He was 94.

Nicknamed “Mr. Goalie,” Hall worked to stop pucks at a time when players at his position were bare-faced, before masks of any kind became commonplace. He did it as well as just about anyone of his generation, which stretched from the days of the Original Six into the expansion era.

A spokesperson for the Chicago Blackhawks confirmed the team received word of Hall’s death from his family. A league historian in touch with Hall’s son, Pat, said Hall died at a hospital in Stony Plain, Alberta, on Wednesday.

A pioneer of the butterfly style of goaltending of dropping to his knees, Hall backstopped Chicago to the Stanley Cup in 1961. He won the Conn Smythe Trophy as most valuable player of the playoffs in 1968 with St. Louis when the Blues reached the final before losing to Montreal. He was the second of just six Conn Smythe winners from a team that did not hoist the Cup.

His run of more than 500 games in net is one of the most untouchable records in sports, given how the position has changed in the decades since. Second in history is Alec Connell with 257 from 1924-30.

“Glenn was sturdy, dependable and a spectacular talent in net,” Commissioner Gary Bettman said. “That record, set from 1955-56 to 1962-63, still stands, probably always will, and is almost unfathomable — especially when you consider he did it all without a mask.”

Counting the postseason, Hall started 552 games in a row.

Hall won the Calder Trophy as rookie of the year in 1956 when playing for the Detroit Red Wings. After two seasons, he was sent to the Black Hawks along with legendary forward Ted Lindsay.

Hall earned two of his three Vezina Trophy honors as the league's top goalie with Chicago, in 1963 and '67. The Blues took him in the expansion draft when the NHL doubled from six teams to 12, and he helped them reach the final in each of their first three years of existence, while winning the Vezina again at age 37.

Hall was in net when Boston's Bobby Orr scored in overtime to win the Cup for the Bruins in 1970, a goal that's among the most famous in hockey history because of the flying through the air celebration that followed. He played one more season with St. Louis before retiring in 1971.

“His influence extended far beyond the crease," Blues chairman Tom Stillman said. “From the very beginning, he brought credibility, excellence, and heart to a new team and a new NHL market.”

A native of Humboldt, Saskatchewan, Hall was a seven-time first-team NHL All-Star who had 407 wins and 84 shutouts in 906 regular-season games. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1975, and his No. 1 was retired by Chicago in 1988.

Hall was chosen as one of the top 100 players in the league's first 100 years.

Blackhawks chairman and CEO Danny Wirtz called Hall an innovator and “one of the greatest and most influential goaltenders in the history of our sport and a cornerstone of our franchise.”

“We are grateful for his extraordinary contributions to hockey and to our club, and we will honor his memory today and always,” Wirtz said.

The Blackhawks paid tribute to Hall and former coach and general manager Bob Pulford with a moment of silence before Wednesday night’s game against St. Louis. Pulford died Monday.

A Hall highlight video was shown on the center-ice videoboard. The lights were turned off for the moment of silence, except for a spotlight on the No. 1 banner for Hall that hangs in the rafters at the United Center.

Fellow Hall of Famer Martin Brodeur, the league's leader in wins with 691 and games played with 1,266, posted a photo of the last time he saw Hall along with a remembrance of him.

“Glenn Hall was a legend, and I was a big fan of his,” Brodeur said on social media. “He set the standard for every goaltender who followed. His toughness and consistency defined what it meant to play.”

AP Sports Writer Jay Cohen in Chicago contributed to this report.

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FILE - Glenn Hall, second from left, stands with fellow former Chicago Blackhawks players Stan Mikita, former general manager Tommy Ivan, Bobby Hull, Bill Wirtz and Tony Esposito during a pre-game ceremony at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Ill., April 14, 1994. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)

FILE - Glenn Hall, second from left, stands with fellow former Chicago Blackhawks players Stan Mikita, former general manager Tommy Ivan, Bobby Hull, Bill Wirtz and Tony Esposito during a pre-game ceremony at the Chicago Stadium in Chicago, Ill., April 14, 1994. (AP Photo/Fred Jewell, File)

FILE - St. Louis Blues goalie Glenn Hall, top right, is pinned to his net waiting to make a save on a Montreal Canadians shot as Blues' Noel Picard (4) tries to block the puck while Canadiens' John Ferguson (22) and Ralph Backstorm wait for a rebound in the third period of their NHL hockey Stanley Cup game, May 5, 1968. (AP Photo/Fred Waters, File)

FILE - St. Louis Blues goalie Glenn Hall, top right, is pinned to his net waiting to make a save on a Montreal Canadians shot as Blues' Noel Picard (4) tries to block the puck while Canadiens' John Ferguson (22) and Ralph Backstorm wait for a rebound in the third period of their NHL hockey Stanley Cup game, May 5, 1968. (AP Photo/Fred Waters, File)

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