


New York is a tough city to drive through on a normal day, but when the president is in town, things can come to a standstill.
That’s the predicament the Brewers found themselves in Thursday afternoon before their 3-2 win against the Mets on Thursday at Citi Field.
President Biden was in New York to promote his economic agenda through a number of scheduled events, including sitting down with MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace for an interview.
And as Milwaukee was gearing up to play its final game of a three-game series against the Mets, the Brewers found themselves stuck in traffic thanks to Biden’s appearance in the Big Apple, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported.
One of the team’s buses moved just a few blocks from the team’s hotel in midtown Manhattan over a 50-minute period around four hours before game time, and players were getting antsy.
That’s when reliever Hoby Milner came in, well, relief.
“I was like, all right, I don’t think we’re going to make it anytime soon,” Milner said to the Journal Sentinel. “Siri said 50 minutes and that was if we started moving, so I checked how fast the subway would be. And it said, like, 32 minutes.”
So Milner and six of his teammates, including Thursday’s starting pitcher Adrian Houser, decided to take the 7 train and made it to the ballpark in about the amount of time his phone told him — and 30 minutes before those who stuck it out on that bus.
“Hoby’s the MVP of today,” 2021 Cy Young award winner Corbin Burnes said, according to the Journal Sentinel.
On the mound, Milner seemed to live up to that praise in the series.
He pitched for a third straight day, recording the first out of the seventh inning while earning his eighth hold of the year.
The lefty threw two scoreless frames in the series and yielded just one hit as he lowered his ERA to 2.56.
Houser was no worse for the wear after taking public transit as he earned the win after allowing two runs over six innings against the Mets as he helped Milwaukee take two of the three games in New York.