Luis Lara was in the middle of a soccer match on PlayStation when his cell phone buzzed Monday night with a call from Triple-A manager Rick Sweet. It was the call the Top 100 prospect had been waiting for ever since he signed a seven-year, $31 million contract with the Brewers in early June. “I had a feeling that whenever he called, that was going to be it,” Lara said. He was right. The Brewers got 14 2/3 terrific innings from starters Jacob Misiorowski and Robert Gasser while winning both ends of Tuesday’s doubleheader against the Cardinals at Busch Stadium, taking the opening game, 4-3, before winning 10-2 in the nightcap. But they began the day by promoting Lara -- the 21-year-old, 5-foot-7 switch-hitter who is ranked as Milwaukee’s No. 4 prospect and No. 67 overall by MLB Pipeline. Lara wasted little time making an impact. After watching the Brewers’ Game 1 victory from the bench, he went to work in Game 2 as the starting center fielder and two-hole hitter in a victory that had his fingerprints all over. Lara collected his first hit, his first walk, his first run scored, his first RBIs and recorded the final out in a victory that pushed Milwaukee 25 games over .500 at 58-33. “A kid’s dream,” Lara called it. “It’s the moment you always dream of when you are a kid, and that moment arrived today.” Lara met that moment by shrugging off Cardinals right fielder Jordan Walker’s diving catch of his sinking liner in the third inning to deliver a two-out, two-run single in the fifth for his first Major League hit and RBIs. Then in the seventh, he worked a walk and flashed his superior speed while scoring his first big league run amid Milwaukee’s seven-run, game-breaking rally. “He looked great, man,” said Brewers manager Pat Murphy. “His ABs were great, all of them, except for the one off the \[position player\
How the bets landed
Moneyline favoriteSTL -112 · 51% to win
Upset
Run LineMIL -1.5
Covered
TotalO/U 8.5 · 12 scored
Over
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