MILWAUKEE _ The Milwaukee Brewers made it a "parental sweep" on Sunday afternoon at Miller Park.
Riding Jimmy Nelson's first career complete game and solo sixth-inning home runs from Hernan Perez and Manny Pina, they outlasted the San Diego Padres, 2-1, to register a rare Father's Day victory.
It marked just the 19th time the Brewers won on Father's Day in 51 tries, which is the worst mark in major-league baseball. Compare that to their dominance on Mother's Day, where their .627 winning percentage is tops in the majors.
Nelson needed 118 pitches to finish his nine innings. He allowed six hits, one run (earned) and two walks while striking out 10. It was Milwaukee's first complete game since July 11, 2015, when Taylor Jungmann threw one in a 7-1 victory over the Los Angeles Dodgers at Dodger Stadium.
The early innings were frustrating for the Brewers.
They loaded the bases in the second when Manny Pina, Keon Broxton and Lewis Brinson opened with singles off Luis Perdomo. But Orlando Arcia chopped into a 1-2-3 double play, then Nelson struck out to quickly end the threat.
Eric Sogard led off the Brewers' third with a double to right and moved to second on an Eric Thames walk. Hernan Perez struck out, and Sogard was doubled off second after Travis Shaw's drive to deep center was run down by Franchy Cordero.
Nelson got through the first four innings without much issue, then his throwing error on Cory Spangenberg's leadoff infield single in the fifth set up the Padres' first run. With Spangenberg on second, Erick Aybar followed with a single to center to make it 1-0.
Milwaukee followed by getting two more on with one out after Nelson reached on a swinging bunt and Sogard walked, but Thames grounded into a 6-3 double play to end that budding threat.
Finally, the Brewers cashed in against Perdomo with _ what else _ a pair of homers in the seventh. Perez led off with a solo shot to left, then two batters later Pina sent one out to left-center to put Milwaukee ahead for the first time at 2-1.
Pina's shot also set a club record, with the Brewers having scored each of their last 15 runs at that point via the long ball.
Interestingly, it was Pina's three-run, eighth-inning homer that helped lift the Brewers to a come-from-behind victory over the New York Mets on Mother's Day at Miller Park on May 14.
Nelson stranded a pair in the seventh, then got the opportunity to pitch the eighth. After striking out Cordero, Wil Myers singled to bring up San Diego's two-homer hero from Saturday, Yangervis Solarte.
Solarte scared the 34,518 in attendance by pulling a long drive just outside the foul pole down the right-field line for what would have been the go-ahead blast. Three pitches later Nelson got him to hit into a huge 4-6-3 double play, getting him out of the jam and giving him his second eight-inning start in his last four turns.
Nelson came out to a big ovation in the ninth, and got Hunter Renfroe looking for the first out. After Spangenberg lined out to first, Aybar struck out swinging, earning a big fist pump from Nelson and another huge cheer from the crowd.
It was the Brewers' first complete game at Miller Park since Kyle Lohse threw one on June 1, 2014 in a 9-0 shutout of the Chicago Cubs.
