MILWAUKEE (AP) — Jacob Misiorowski threw six shutout innings to outduel Chris Sale and William Contreras went 4 for 4 as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the Atlanta Braves 2-1 on Friday.
Misiorowski (13-5) struck out six while allowing four hits and two walks to win this matchup of Cy Young Award contenders from first-place teams. Misiorowski threw 96 pitches and hit at least 100 mph on 32 of them — including a top velocity of 103.1 — but also mixed in more sliders than usual.
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Milwaukee Brewers' Luis Lara runs to third base on a single hit by Jackson Chourio during the third inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Jackson Chourio (11) catches a pop fly hit by Atlanta Braves' Ozzie Albies as Brewers third baseman Joey Ortiz (3) looks on during the fourth inning of a baseball game against Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
Atlanta Braves shortstop Mauricio Dubón forces out Milwaukee Brewers' William Contreras at second base as Brewers' Jackson Chourio scores and Andrew Vaughn makes it safely to first base during the third inning of a baseball game Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale throws during the third inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski throws during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
He lowered his ERA to 1.68 and increased his strikeout total to 216. The right-hander leads the major leagues in both categories.
Atlanta left the bases loaded in the eighth and stranded the potential tying run at second in the ninth when Trevor Megill struck out Ronald Acuña Jr. to earn his 24th save in 26 opportunities.
Sale, one of the pitchers Misiorowski has said he admired most while growing up, scattered eight hits and walked none while striking out six in six innings. The 2024 Cy Young Award winner has allowed three runs or fewer in an MLB-leading 20 consecutive starts.
Milwaukee got both its runs off Sale (12-9) in the third inning.
After Luis Lara and Jackson Chourio started the inning with consecutive singles to put runners on the corners, Contreras drove in Lara with a base hit up the middle. Andrew Vaughn then hit into a fielder’s choice that scored Chourio.
Lara went 2 for 3 and made a leaping catch at the center-field wall to rob Matt Olson of a hit in the sixth inning.
Atlanta cut Milwaukee's lead to 2-1 on Michael Harris II's two-out RBI single in the eighth. Antonio Senzatela then walked Ozzie Albies to load the bases before retiring Mauricio Dubón on a fly to right.
Mike Yastrzemski hit a two-out single in the ninth and pinch runner Lane Thomas stole second before Acuña struck out.
Martín Pérez (8-7, 3.15 ERA) starts for Atlanta and Logan Henderson (7-2, 2.70) pitches for Milwaukee on Saturday.
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Milwaukee Brewers' Luis Lara runs to third base on a single hit by Jackson Chourio during the third inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
Milwaukee Brewers left fielder Jackson Chourio (11) catches a pop fly hit by Atlanta Braves' Ozzie Albies as Brewers third baseman Joey Ortiz (3) looks on during the fourth inning of a baseball game against Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
Atlanta Braves shortstop Mauricio Dubón forces out Milwaukee Brewers' William Contreras at second base as Brewers' Jackson Chourio scores and Andrew Vaughn makes it safely to first base during the third inning of a baseball game Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
Atlanta Braves pitcher Chris Sale throws during the third inning of a baseball game against the Milwaukee Brewers, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jacob Misiorowski throws during the fourth inning of a baseball game against the Atlanta Braves, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Milwaukee. (AP Photo/Kayla Wolf)
BOSTON (AP) — The defense rested its case Friday in the Lindsay Clancy murder trial after eliciting several days of testimony about her mental state before and after she strangled her three young children.
Prosecutors then began calling rebuttal witnesses in the trial, which is likely entering its final days. Closing arguments are expected next week.
Clancy, 36, has pleaded not guilty to murder charges in the deaths of her children Callan, Dawson and Cora Clancy, who ranged from 8 months to 5 years old. They were found in the basement of the family’s home in coastal Duxbury, Massachusetts. Clancy jumped from a second-story window after strangling the children and remains paralyzed from the waist down.
Prosecutors argue that Clancy, a former labor and delivery nurse, planned the killings.
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Clancy’s lawyer, Kevin Reddington, hasn’t disputed that she killed the children but says she should not be held criminally responsible because she had postpartum psychosis, a rare mental illness linked to the stress, sleep deprivation and hormonal changes that follow childbirth.
He sought to bolster that defense by having the jury hear from more of Clancy’s family members, who detailed her worsening mental health and attempts to fix it through psychiatric treatment and medications before the January 2023 killings. The jury also heard from a psychologist and a hospital chaplain who met with Clancy after the killings.
For his final witness on Friday, Reddington called Dr. Phillip Resnick, a forensic psychiatrist and expert in filicide, or the killing of a child by a parent.
Resnick testified that Clancy was “clearly psychotic” on the day she killed her children and was not in control of her actions.
“It was almost like she was a puppet and someone else was pulling the strings,” said Resnick, who testified for the defense in the 2006 trial of Andrea Yates, the Texas mother who drowned her five children in 2001.
Resnick said he spent hours interviewing Clancy four months after the killings and believed she tended to minimize rather than exaggerate her symptoms. He said she suffered from severe depression, showed evidence consistent with bipolar disorder and reported hearing a voice commanding her to kill her children.
Resnick described several categories of filicide, including killings involving abuse. Others involve psychosis or what he calls “altruistic” filicide — a killing committed “out of love rather than hostility.” He said he found Clancy’s case involved both of the latter categories, but he didn’t find evidence of abuse.
Resnick said Clancy had a delusional belief that if social services took the children or if she killed herself, her children would suffer without her, and believed that they would be better off dying with her and going to heaven.
“She believed that she was doing what was right for her children,” he said.
Under cross-examination by prosecutor Jennifer Sprague, Resnick acknowledged that Clancy did not disclose thoughts of harming her children to medical providers who asked, but said that was “very common because people fear their children will be taken away.”
“So it’s better to kill them than have them taken away?” Sprague asked.
The judge struck the question.
Prosecutors argue that Clancy contrived to get her husband out of the house the day of the killings. They have attempted to show that while she was getting treatment for anxiety, insomnia and depression, she wasn't suffering from psychosis or bipolar disorder.
After the defense rested, prosecutors called forensic psychiatrist Dr. Avram Mack as a rebuttal witness. Mack agreed that Clancy suffered from a major depressive episode but said he found no evidence of mania or hypomania to support a bipolar diagnosis — or of psychosis — leading up to the killings.
Mack said Clancy recounted the killings to him, saying she heard a loud male voice telling her to kill the children so she could kill herself. She recalled strangling the children and saying “go to God” as she did so, he told jurors.
Mack said Clancy was experiencing severe mental illness when she killed her children but that it was a continuation of the depression she had experienced for months in which she was able to control impulses and distinguish right from wrong.
He also said, “There’s no reason that psychosis in and of itself inhibits a person’s ability to know right from wrong.”
Clancy’s first name was misspelled in the headline of an earlier version of this story. It has been corrected to Lindsay, instead of Lindsey.
Judge William Sullivan greets the jury during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Mark Chavous/The Enterprise via AP, Pool)
Defense Attorney Kevin Reddington begins his questioning of witness Dr. Phillip Resnick during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Mark Chavous/The Enterprise via AP, Pool)
Dr Avram Mack answers questions from the witness stand during the Lindsay Clancy murder trial, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Mark Chavous /The Enterprise via AP, Pool)
Defendant Lindsay Clancy watches as her attorney Kevin Reddington prepares to interview a witness during proceedings in her murder trial, Friday, Aug. 21, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (Mark Chavous /The Enterprise via AP, Pool)
Judge William Sullivan speaks to the prosecution as they discuss the preparation of jury instructions during Lindsay Clancy's murder trial, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, Pool)
From left, prosecutor Shanan Buckingham, and Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Sprague confer as lawyer Kevin Reddington speaks during proceedings in the murder trial of Lindsay Clancy, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, Pool)
Lindsay Clancy, looks toward reporters in the courtroom during proceedings in her murder trial, Thursday, Aug. 20, 2026, in Plymouth, Mass. (AP Photo/Josh Reynolds, Pool)
