Pittsburgh Pirates at Milwaukee Brewers

MILWAUKEE – Kyle Harrison took the mound to warm up for the sixth inning of Wednesday's 4-2 Brewers win over the Pirates with history in his sights. In an electric return from the injured list at American Family Field, the 24-year-old left-hander had struck out each of the last eight batters he’d faced, leaving him two shy of the all-time Major League record for consecutive strikeouts. Harrison never got a chance to challenge that mark. After several warmup throws, he called for the athletic trainer and left the game. The Brewers reported that he left with cramping in both calves. “Maybe get him some pickle juice,” Brewers first baseman Andrew Vaughn said. Harrison and the Brewers’ medical staff thought of that. They also tried a cinnamon, ginger and capsicum elixir used by athletes to combat cramping after he reported the first muscle twinges in the fifth. Neither helped. Harrison said he wasn’t just dealing with cramping in his calves, but his entire body. “I downed a pickle shot and the hot cinnamon thing, just trying to get the cramps out,” said Harrison. “The body was telling me \[no\