CHICAGO (AP) — Jacob Misiorowski pitched six scoreless innings, Brice Turang was 3 for 4 with a two-run homer, and the Milwaukee Brewers topped the Chicago Cubs 5-2 on Tuesday night to move into first place in the NL Central.
Jake Bauers had two hits and an RBI and Garrett Mitchell drove in a run to help Milwaukee win for the 10th time in its last 12 games. At 28-18, the Brewers moved one-half game ahead of the Cubs, who have lost four in a row and eight of their last 10.
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Chicago Cubs' Nico Hoerner, right, celebrates with first base coach Jose Javier, left, after hitting a one-run single during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Milwaukee Brewers' Garrett Mitchell hits a one-run single during the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong, left, catches a fly ball hit by Milwaukee Brewers' William Contreras during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Milwaukee Brewers' Jake Bauers runs after hitting a one-run single during the third inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Jacob Misiorowski throws against the Chicago Cubs during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Misiorowski (4-2) allowed three singles and extended his scoreless streak to 24 1/3 innings, while striking out eight and walking one. The right-hander hasn’t yielded a run in his last four starts dating to April 24.
Nico Hoerner and Seiya Suzuki had RBIs as Chicago got four of its seven hits and both of its runs off reliever Aaron Ashby in the eighth inning. Chad Patrick entered and got Michael Conforto to ground out with the bases loaded for the third out.
Abner Uribe followed with a 1-2-3 ninth for his fifth save.
Chicago starter Ben Brown (1-2) yielded three runs on seven hits and two walks in five innings, his longest outing this season. He struck out six.
Mitchell’s RBI single gave the Brewers a 1-0 lead in the first.
The first two Cubs batters reached base, on a walk and error, in the bottom half. Then Misiorowski retired 11 in a row before Suzuki singled to right in the fourth for Chicago’s first hit.
The Brewers upped it to 3-0 in the third. Jackson Chourio scored on Brown's wild pitch. Bauers followed with a run-scoring single.
Turang lined his seventh homer in the eighth to make it 5-0.
Milwaukee LHP Kyle Harrison (4-1, 2.09 ERA) faces Chicago RHP Edward Cabrera (3-1, 4.06) on Wednesday night as the Brewers go for a three-game sweep.
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Chicago Cubs' Nico Hoerner, right, celebrates with first base coach Jose Javier, left, after hitting a one-run single during the eighth inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Milwaukee Brewers' Garrett Mitchell hits a one-run single during the first inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Chicago Cubs center fielder Pete Crow-Armstrong, left, catches a fly ball hit by Milwaukee Brewers' William Contreras during the sixth inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Milwaukee Brewers' Jake Bauers runs after hitting a one-run single during the third inning of a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Jacob Misiorowski throws against the Chicago Cubs during the first inning of a baseball game in Chicago, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Nam Y. Huh)
WARMINSTER, Pa. (AP) — Chris Rabb won the Democratic Party’s nomination Tuesday in a hotly contested primary for an open congressional seat in a solidly liberal district in Philadelphia.
Rabb, a self-described “proud troublemaker,” is a member of Pennsylvania’s House of Representatives where he made a name for himself by backing left-wing causes. He will almost certainly go to Washington next year to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans since no Republican filed to run in the majority Black district.
Rabb was endorsed in the four-way primary by progressive stalwarts including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and online streamer Hasan Piker.
He fended off Sharif Street, a state senator and former state party chair who had prominent establishment backers and a familiar name as the son of John F. Street, the city’s former two-term mayor. Rabb also beat Dr. Ala Stanford, a pediatric surgeon who was backed by millions of dollars from 314 Action, a left-leaning political action committee aimed at electing scientists in Congress.
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WARMINSTER, Pa. (AP) —
Democrats in Pennsylvania backed by Gov. Josh Shapiro won their primaries Tuesday to shape a congressional slate in which they hope to flip the state’s four swing districts and, ultimately, capture a U.S. House majority.
Janelle Stelson, Bob Harvie and Bob Brooks won the party’s nomination in three swing districts where Democrats had a contested primary for the right to take on Republican seat-holders in November.
All were endorsed by Shapiro, the Democratic governor who is putting his clout on the line in trying to help flip the House seats and also deliver Democratic control of the state Legislature to advance his own agenda.
Speaking to a primary night crowd, Shapiro — considered a potential White House contender in 2028 — spent a considerable amount of his speech attacking President Donald Trump and a Republican Congress that he said is weak, serves Trump's will and gives Trump a free pass on wrongdoing and corruption.
“The only way we can expect to change this is to win in November and bring some accountability back to our nation’s capital,” Shapiro told the crowd in an event space that was once a centrifuge where the U.S. Navy tested G-forces on astronauts.
Shapiro and Republican state Treasurer Stacy Garrity will face each other in November after winning their uncontested primaries. Shapiro will go into the fall as a heavy favorite to win.
The governor also urged the crowd to help the party’s candidates win control of the Legislature for the first time in more than three decades.
“Give me a Democratic majority in the Senate and we will fully fund mass transit, we will build more housing, and we will codify abortion rights into state law,” Shapiro said.
For Shapiro, the election year is more than an opportunity to win a second term: It’s a chance show his battleground-state political strength should he decide to run for president in 2028.
The U.S. House campaigns will put Pennsylvania on the front lines of Democratic efforts to retake control of Congress and block the last two years of Trump’s agenda.
Shapiro and national Democrats promoted their chosen candidates over progressive rivals, the latest example of a fissure that has divided the party as it grasps for a path back to power in Washington.
Three of the four swing districts had contested Democratic primaries, in addition to a wide-open contest in Philadelphia that will almost surely anoint the next seatholder. Those three swing districts are held by Republican U.S. Reps. Brian Fitzpatrick, Ryan Mackenzie and Scott Perry.
Shapiro and the House Democrats’ campaign arm, the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, teamed up to endorse the same candidate in each of the three contested primaries.
Washington U.S. Rep. Suzan DelBene, the chair of the DCCC, said the party wanted “top tier” candidates who were the strongest to take on Republican incumbents.
Two of those — Stelson and Harvie — faced opponents on the left, while Brooks was in a four-way primary contest.
Stelson, a former local television anchor and personality, beat Justin Douglas, a progressive minister and a Dauphin County commissioner.
In Fitzpatrick’s district in suburban Philadelphia, Harvie, a Bucks County commissioner, defeated Lucia Simonelli, a first-time candidate and climate activist.
Brooks will challenge Mackenzie in an Allentown-area seat. He beat former federal prosecutor Ryan Crosswell, former Northampton County executive Lamont McClure and former legislative aide Carol Obando-Derstine.
In the fourth swing district, Scranton Mayor Paige Cognetti was unopposed for the Democratic nomination to take on GOP U.S. Rep. Rob Bresnahan, who also was unopposed in the primary.
In 2018, the last midterm election cycle under Trump, Pennsylvania Democrats flipped four Republican-held congressional seats. In 2024, Perry and Mackenzie’s margins of victory were among the slimmest in that year’s House races — smaller than the margin by which Trump won those districts in the presidential election.
Fitzpatrick won more comfortably, but he is just one of three House Republicans elected in districts that also backed Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
Fitzpatrick and Perry are perennial targets of Democrats, and have survived repeatedly. However, Mackenzie is a freshman in his first reelection test.
Without Trump on the ballot, Democrats hoped they could capitalize on weaker Republican turnout. Shapiro won the same districts in 2022, and he’s on the top of the party’s ticket this year.
In Philadelphia, the Democratic primary for a seat in Congress there was widely viewed during the campaign as a toss-up among three candidates.
No Republican is seeking that party’s nomination, making the Democratic primary winner a shoo-in to succeed retiring Democratic Rep. Dwight Evans.
It featured a familiar name to many in the city: Sharif Street, a state senator, former state party chairman and son of the city’s former two-term mayor, John F. Street. He is backed by Mayor Cherelle Parker, former Gov. Ed Rendell and the city’s building trades unions.
A state lawmaker, Rep. Chris Rabb, was endorsed by progressive stalwarts U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York and online streamer Hasan Piker and has drawn financial backing from the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
Dr. Ala Stanford, a pediatric surgeon who started a Black doctors’ consortium during the COVID-19 pandemic, was helped by millions of dollars from 314 Action, a left-leaning political action committee aimed at electing scientists to Congress.
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro arrives to speak at an election night watch party in Warminster, Pa., Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at an election night watch party in Warminster, Pa., Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
People attend Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's election night watch party in Warminster, Pa., Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks at an election night watch party in Warminster, Pa., Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Pennsylvania state Rep. Brian Munroe, D-Bucks, speaks at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro's election night watch party in Warminster, Pa., Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, accompanied by his wife Lori Shapiro, walks from his polling place in Rydal, Pa., Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
FILE - Pennsylvania state Treasurer Stacy Garrity listens to a question during a news conference in Treasury Department offices, April 23, 2026, in Harrisburg, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks with members of the media outside his polling place in Rydal, Pa., Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
FILE - Lamont McClure, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, poses for a photograph in Bethlehem, Pa., May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - Carol Obando-Derstine, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, poses for a photograph in Bethlehem, Pa., May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - Bob Brooks, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, poses for a photograph in Bethlehem, Pa., May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - Ryan Crosswell, a candidate for the Democratic nomination in Pennsylvania's 7th Congressional District, poses for a photograph in Bethlehem, Pa., May 11, 2026. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
FILE - Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro speaks to the crowd at a Clinton County Democratic Party event at the Avenue 209 coffee shop, April 11, 2026, in Lock Haven, Pa. (AP Photo/Marc Levy, File)
