St Kitts and Nevis Patrios 149 for 7 (Brooks 53, Gurney 2-23) beat Barbados Tridents 148 (Shakib 38, Cottrell 3-27, Brathwaite 3-30) by 1 run

A match that was a slow burn for most of the first 30 overs came alive in the last quarter of play with a series of dramatic twists and turns that ended with St. Kitts & Nevis Patriots booking their place in the CPL 2019 playoffs, with a one-run last-ball win over Barbados Tridents at Kensington Oval. A first-innings fifty by Shamarh Brooks set up a fighting total of 149 for 7 after Patriots had opted to bat. Tridents' steady reply then turned haywire after Patriots captain Carlos Brathwaite sparked a collapse with the key scalp of Shakib Al Hasan.

With 12 to get off the final over and two wickets in hand, Raymon Reifer looked like he would take Tridents across the line after striking an audacious six over extra cover off the first legal ball - the first ball of the over had been a wide - to bring the equation to 5 off 5. But Reifer inexplicably ran himself out coming back for a non-existent two on the next ball. The last-wicket pair of Chemar Holder and Harry Gurney took it down to two off the final ball to win, or a single to force a Super Over, before Dominic Drakes beat Gurney for pace with a length ball that pegged back the offstump.

Brooks' home-ground heroics for Patriots

Two days short of his 31st birthday, Brooks produced a career-best maiden half-century in T20 cricket on his return home to his native island. Brooks came in to bat after Mohammad Hafeez had struggled through four overs to make 6, and fired from early in his knock, with back-to-back fours in the fifth over off Chemar Holder.

He survived a massive lbw appeal from Hayden Walsh Jr on 28 after going deep in his crease missing a flick to midwicket. Brooks then rubbed salt into the wound by smashing the legspinner for four and six in the 14th just a few days after Walsh had taken the season's best figures with 5 for 19 against Trinbago Knight Riders. Walsh eventually got Brooks out bowled slog sweeping off the final ball of his spell in the 16th. Brathwaite then fell at the start of the 17th to an arm ball from Shakib to leave Patriots struggling again at 114 for 6 but a late burst from Fabian Allen and Keron Cottoy gave the visitors life heading into the innings break.

Shakib's impact with bat and ball

The Bangladesh star had started off the match with a maiden, finished with returns of 1 for 14 in four overs and was no less a menace with the bat after arriving in the third over of Tridents' chase. Regularly using his feet to the spinners, Shakib played some gloriously elegant drives through extra cover for four and over long-on for six off Hafeez in the fourth over.

He was undeterred when Alex Hales fell to a brilliant catch by Sheldon Cottrell in the eighth over, and continued to steer the innings in tandem with JP Duminy. After 11 overs, Tridents were 83 for 2 and needed just 67 off 54 balls, seemingly well on course for a stress-free conclusion.

Brathwaite's rescue act

The Patriots captain resuscitated his side's chances with a game-changing 12th over that claimed both Shakib and Jonathan Carter. Shakib found Brooks with a miscued drive to long-on off the third ball for 38. Carter then helped the pendulum swing back closer to the Patriots when his misguided attempt to open the face for a single to third man instead produced an edge dragged onto the stumps.

Rayad Emrit, who had taken Hales' wicket, then induced a slap to mid-on by Jason Holder in the 14th over. Cottrell trapped Ashley Nurse with an inswinger in the next over before another ill-fated steer by Duminy resulted in Brathwaite's third wicket, edged behind to Devon Thomas, completing a slide of 5 for 14 to make it 99 for 7 from 85 for 2.

With 37 needed off three overs, Reifer battled back fiercely, striking sixes in consecutive overs off Brathwaite and Cottrell to keep Tridents in the hunt. Then came his six off Drakes to start the final over to bring the equation down to a run a ball before madness set in. Tridents must now come back on Sunday for a do-or-die clash against St Lucia Zouks. Only one point separates the Tridents and Zouks and the winner will claim the final playoff spot in CPL 2019, regardless of the result of Tridents' last league stage match at Queen's Park Oval against Knight Riders.

Oklahoma and Notre Dame became the sixth and seventh FBS teams to earn 900 wins in program history on Saturday -- a feat the Irish accomplished for the second time.

Notre Dame originally reached 900 wins in 2017 while appealing an NCAA mandate that the school vacate 21 victories because of academic misconduct, including all 12 wins from the school's 2012 run to the national championship game, as well as nine from 2013.

The NCAA denied the school's appeal in February 2018, putting its official win total back under 900. The university's president, the Rev. John Jenkins, strongly criticized the NCAA's decision at the time, saying the school was being punished for rigorously enforcing its honor code.

The decision ultimately allowed the No. 6 Sooners to beat Notre Dame in the race to an official 900 by a matter of hours on Saturday, running away from Texas Tech 55-16 before the No. 10 Irish matched them with a 35-20 win over No. 18 Virginia.

The schools join Michigan (956), Ohio State (916), Texas (911), Alabama (910) and Nebraska (900) as the only Football Bowl Subdivision programs to achieve 900 wins. The Cornhuskers won No. 900 last weekend by beating Illinois. Yale, now in the Football Championship Subdivision, has 909 wins.

Both Oklahoma and Notre Dame have 325 losses to go with their 900 victories. The Sooners have played in 11 more ties than the Irish, 53-42.

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— Oklahoma Football (@OU_Football) September 28, 2019

Oklahoma is in its 125th season of football, posting the fifth-best winning percentage nationally though its first 124, with only 13 losing seasons. The Sooners own seven national championships.

Notre Dame, which started playing in 1887, has 11 national championships dating back to 1924, with the most recent coming in 1988. Entering the game against Virginia, Notre Dame had an all-time win percentage at 72.7.

ESPN's Sam Khan Jr. and Tom VanHaaren contributed to this report.

CHAPEL HILL, N.C. -- This was supposed to be like every other Clemson game this season, a blowout win piled onto another blowout win on its easy road back to the College Football Playoff.

After all, the No. 1 Tigers went into their matchup against unranked North Carolina as 28-point favorites, and as the team with the highest probability to make it into the playoff at a whopping 76.6%. No ranked teams left on the schedule in the weak ACC? No problem.

Except teams do not always fit into neat, tidy, easy-to-predict boxes.

So it was that Clemson faced its fiercest challenge to date, as North Carolina outplayed and outcoached the top-ranked team in the country for most of the day.

But just the way the Tigers did in close games last season, they came up with the crucial play with the game on the line -- this time, stopping North Carolina's 2-point conversion attempt with 1:17 remaining to win 21-20 on Saturday.

"It's not easy to win," Clemson coach Dabo Swinney said. "I know we're supposed to destroy everybody, like nobody else has scholarships, nobody else has coaches. It doesn't work that way. We're just normal people. There's nothing special about us. We're not perfect. We don't coach perfect. Unfortunately, we don't play perfect every down, every game, but we found a way to win an ugly game.

"But it's disrespectful to just put it all on us. You've got to give them some credit. Those kids played their heart out, and they coached their hearts out, and they played with tremendous will to win, but I'm proud of my guys because they found a way when we had to have it. We found a way."

The two teams were deadlocked at 14 until Trevor Lawrence threw a perfectly placed ball to Tee Higgins for a 38-yard touchdown to give Clemson (5-0, 3-0 ACC) its first lead of the game, 21-14 with 9:54 to play. But North Carolina and freshman quarterback Sam Howell marched right down the field on a 16-play drive, converting twice on third down and twice on fourth down to stay in the game.

On first-and-goal from the 3, Howell threw a 2-yard pass to Jake Bargas to put North Carolina at the 1-yard line with 1:19 left. At this point, Swinney had a feeling North Carolina coach Mack Brown would go for 2 and the win if his team successfully punched it in. Sure enough, the Tar Heels (2-3, 1-1) scored on the next play and Brown signaled for 2.

"I've always had the theory that the longer the game goes, the best team wins, and they have the best team," Brown said. "So my thought was, 'Go now.' We've got momentum, they're tired, they're on the field, so that was the best chance for us to win the game."

Brown said he asked offensive coordinator Phil Longo, "Do you have a play that you think is going to work to score to win the game, to beat the No. 1 team in the country?"

"And he said, 'Yes.'"

The call was an option for Howell, and it was a similar play to a 2-point conversion North Carolina converted earlier in the season. Clemson linebacker James Skalski said, "I think we had a good idea they were going to go with an option look, and it showed up. We were ready for it."

Howell ran to his right, and saw his receiver option covered up. He kept running, but Clemson was on him, as Skalski, Xavier Thomas and Nolan Turner converged. Howell tried to pitch, but it was too late.

"It did not unfold how we wanted to, obviously," Brown said. "Sam fought his guts to get in. You work on 2-point plays all the time and Phil was very confident. If he had said he wasn't sure, we kick."

Added Skalski: "North Carolina played their butt off. They had a good plan. They made plays, but when it mattered most, we showed up."

Going into the game, Clemson had beaten each of its past 14 opponents by double digits, helping feed into the narrative that the Tigers wouldn't face another test this season -- particularly with zero ranked teams left on the schedule.

But they were in two close contests in the first half of last season. They had to stop a 2-point conversion attempt that would have tied the score against Texas A&M. Then against Syracuse, nearly one year ago, the Tigers needed a fourth-quarter comeback to win.

"There's been a game every year the past four years or so in this program where it's been close or we lost," Lawrence said. "We know it's hard to win. Sometimes it's easy to forget that when you win so many games by so many points, but this game is only going to make us better. Obviously, we'd like to win every game by four touchdowns, but it's going to bring us closer and show us how to appreciate every win and like tonight, just finding a way."

Clemson had its worst offensive performance of the season, with lows in total points, total yards and passing yards. A big reason why is because the Tigers made crucial mistakes the entire game, from procedure penalties, to a fumble, to a missed field goal attempt, to lapses on third down.

North Carolina dared Clemson to run, taking away its talented receivers and forcing Lawrence to do more on the ground than anyone anticipated going into the season. Clemson has an off week before hosting Florida State on Oct. 12, and Swinney said he was going to relish film study on Monday when it points out all the errors his team made.

"Whether you win by one point or 50 points, it's a win," Swinney said. "It's kind of like when I make a birdie in golf. Most times when I make a birdie it usually hits off a tree, runs across the green, hits off the golf cart, bounces back up there close to the flag, and I putt it in and I write 3 on the scorecard. There ain't no pictures on the scorecard. A win is a win, and I'd rather learn lessons with a win than learn with a loss any day."

EL SEGUNDO, Calif. -- Bodies bounced off one another during an intrasquad scrimmage that capped the Los Angeles Lakers' first practice of training camp Saturday.

LeBron James collided with Alex Caruso, causing both of them to fall to the floor. Anthony Davis and Dwight Howard got tangled up going for a rebound and the pair hit the hardwood.

It was just what first-year Lakers coach Frank Vogel wanted to see.

"You're coming to play [the] L.A. Lakers -- you're going to get hit," Vogel said after his team finished the first of their two-a-day session. "You're going to get smashed in the mouth."

Vogel, whose Indiana Pacers teams were a perennial playoff force thanks to their defensive prowess, wanted to set the tone with his new group on that end of the floor. He dedicated nearly an hour of the first practice to on-ball defensive drills and principles.

"He's a defensive coach and wants to have a defensive mindset," Davis said of Vogel. "We're going to be a defensive team. We made sure we covered a lot of defensive schemes today."

Vogel said that Howard, a three-time NBA Defensive Player of the Year award winner, was particularly physical as he played with reserves against a first five of James, Davis, Danny Green, Rajon Rondo and JaVale McGee -- a lineup that Vogel was testing out together.

"I'm preaching 'play physical' -- he probably overdid it a little bit," Vogel said when asked about Howard. "You know, he's knocking guys around. Look, you got to deal with that."

James missed nearly all of training camp at the outset of the 2017-18 season -- his last with the Cleveland Cavaliers -- after turning an ankle during a scrimmage when he landed on Cedi Osman's foot. He said his collision with Caruso -- which temporarily paused practice as teammates scrambled over to help both players up -- wasn't a cause for concern.

"It was a different situation," James said. "I didn't have any flashbacks. [Just] two guys colliding and hitting the floor."

Vogel said he had only one thing enter his mind when he saw his guys take a tumble: "Are they getting up?"

In other words, a few bumps and bruises are to be expected.

"I love guys hitting the floor," Vogel continued. "We're not playing hard enough if we're not doing that, but obviously you don't want to see anybody getting hurt."

Davis said they know how to toe the line.

"Obviously, you're not going to try to injure anyone or do anything stupid," he said. "We know we have to play with physicality. We did a good job doing that today. So in a way, that makes it a lot easier against our opponent."

The Lakers ranked a respectable 13th in defensive rating last season, giving up 108.9 points per 100 possessions. They struggled on offense, ranking 24th in offensive rating by scoring 107.4 points per 100 possessions.

After a major roster overhaul and a coaching staff change in the offseason, Vogel is prioritizing defense all the same.

"You know we got a lot of firepower offensively," he said. "But establish that defensive mindset of playing hard and playing tenacious and being physical. And on offense, just beginning to get organized and talking about the importance of playing for each other."

It was a mere glimpse of the group together, but Davis was satisfied with the approach.

"I like the dynamic of the team," Davis said. "Everybody is playing physical and playing hard and coming in with the mindset of being professional and doing what we have to do to reach our goals.

"It was a good first practice."

SAN FRANCISCO -- While the Los Angeles Dodgers kept raising their win total, Hyun-Jin Ryu continued to lower his ERA.

With one game left in the regular season, they're both in good position.

Ryu secured the major league ERA title at 2.32 with seven sharp innings and the Dodgers matched a franchise record with their 105th victory, beating the San Francisco Giants 2-0 on Saturday for their sixth straight win.

The National League West champions tied the win mark of the 1953 "Boys of Summer" team based in Brooklyn that included Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider and other Hall of Famers.

"I'm very proud of that," manager Dave Roberts said. "You don't just show up and win 105 games against very good teams all year long. That's a credit to everybody and just a continued focus each day to get better. It's a really fun and good, talented group."

The Dodgers began the day one game behind Houston for the best record in baseball and one game ahead of the Yankees. Los Angeles will begin the division series next Thursday at home against the NL wild-card winner.

Ryu (14-5) allowed five hits, struck out seven and didn't walk a batter for a third straight start. He also hit an RBI single in the fifth for the game's first run.

Roberts is calling for his Korean left-hander to win the NL Cy Young Award -- even if Ryu himself is giving the nod to reigning winner Jacob deGrom, who's second in ERA at 2.43 for the Mets.

"There were so many good pitchers this season, it possibly might be a tough decision for you as well, but I honestly think Jacob deGrom deserves it and you should probably vote for him," Ryu said through an interpreter and with a wry smile.

Kenta Maeda pitched the eighth. Kenley Jansen hit Evan Longoria to start the ninth and gave up Kevin Pillar's single before striking out three for his 33rd save.

Max Muncy hit his 35th homer in the sixth off rookie Logan Webb (2-3). Webb singled in the fifth for his first major league hit.

Retiring Giants manager Bruce Bochy oversaw his 4,031st game, moving past Sparky Anderson for sole possession of seventh place on the all-time list while managing his second-to-last game with San Francisco. Bochy was honored on the field before the game by San Francisco Mayor London Breed, who presented Bochy with a key to the city.

Webb, a top pitching prospect, allowed two runs on six hits in six innings, struck out five and walked one in his eighth career start.

"We faced a very good pitcher and we were just a hit away from getting things going, just like last night," Bochy said.

MADBUM'S PLACE

Madison Bumgarner will be ready Sunday even if he's not on the mound as originally planned -- Bochy hinted "he'll have his spikes on," so perhaps be prepared for a pinch-hit appearance and one final ovation from the home crowd.

"We thought that would be the best thing for both of us," Bumgarner said Saturday.

The 2014 World Series MVP can become a free agent, so Tuesday might have been his final start for the Giants. He is wrapping up a contract singed in April 2012 that included a $12 million contract option this year, and the Giants opted not to deal him at the trade deadline.

"I'm sure I'll make my way back here one way or another," he said.

HONORING MAGOWAN

Peter Magowan, who died in January, was honored pregame with a plaque on the Giants Wall of Fame he started as San Francisco's managing general partner.

"It was good to get Peter's plaque up there, with what he's done for the San Francisco Giants and the impact he made keeping them here and really in the community," Bochy said. "I know that he'd be very proud. ... Peter, he did a lot for me."

TRAINER'S ROOM

Dodgers: LF A.J. Pollock sat out after being hit in the left knee with a pitch and leaving during the fifth inning of Friday's 9-2 win with a bruised knee. ... Roberts said 3B Justin Turner -- missing a fourth straight game with back tightness -- won't play Sunday. Instead, he will get some simulated work done during Tuesday's workout day back home ahead of the division series. Turner worked throwing and swinging in the cage again Saturday as he did Friday. "If he wasn't able to kind of move around and swing the bat, I'd probably be a little concerned, but since he's doing that I feel confident he'll be fine," Roberts said.

Giants: C Buster Posey returned to the starting lineup after three days not playing at all following a 16-inning game Tuesday in which he caught 13 of those innings.

UP NEXT

LHP Rich Hill (4-1, 2.59 ERA) makes his 13th start of the season pitching the last day, having gone 1-0 with eight strikeouts in two previous outings vs. San Francisco. RHP Dereck Rodriguez (6-10, 5.27) will start Sunday's season finale for the Giants.

Houston Astros ace Justin Verlander reached a pair of milestones Saturday night, becoming the 18th major league pitcher to reach 3,000 career strikeouts and the 19th in the modern era (since 1900) to record 300 strikeouts in a season.

Verlander, 36, entered Saturday night's game against the Los Angeles Angels with 2,994 strikeouts. He achieved the career milestone in the fourth inning when he got Kole Calhoun swinging at a slider. Calhoun reached first, though, on a wild pitch and Andrelton Simmons then gave Los Angeles a 3-0 lead with a two-run homer to left-center.

Verlander's feat was recognized on the scoreboard at Angel Stadium, and he was congratulated by teammates in the Astros dugout at the end of the inning.

According to Baseball-Reference and Retrosheet, it's the first time a pitcher has recorded his 3,000th strikeout on a wild pitch.

Verlander, who began the day with 288 strikeouts this season, got Calhoun swinging again in the sixth inning to reach 300 for the first time in his 15-year career. He and Gerrit Cole are only the second set of teammates to each have 300 strikeouts in the same season, joining Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, who did it for the 2002 Arizona Diamondbacks. Cole has 316 strikeouts this season.

Verlander finished with 12 strikeouts in six innings and gave up three runs, four hits and no walks Saturday. He improved to 21-6, as the Astros topped the Angels 6-3 to secure the best record in baseball this season and home-field advantage through the World Series.

Verlander became only the third pitcher in the modern era to have at least 300 strikeouts at age 36 or older. Nolan Ryan had 301 strikeouts at age 42 in 1989. Randy Johnson had 347 in 2000 at age 36, 372 in 2001 at age 37 and 334 in 2002 at age 38.

Verlander is the second pitcher to reach 3,000 strikeouts this season. New York Yankees left-hander CC Sabathia accomplished the feat on April 30 against Arizona. Of the 16 retired pitchers with more than 3,000 strikeouts, 14 are in the Hall of Fame.

Before Sabathia, Atlanta's John Smoltz was the last to make it to 3,000 strikeouts, in 2008.

Verlander has the second 20-win season of his career and pitched his third no-hitter on Sept. 1 at Toronto. He is also one of the favorites to win his second AL Cy Young.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

NEW YORK -- Mets slugger Pete Alonso hit his 53rd home run of the season Saturday night, breaking the MLB rookie record that Yankees star Aaron Judge set in 2017.

Alonso launched a 93 mph fastball on a 1-2 count from Atlanta Braves right-hander Mike Foltynewicz just to the right of straightaway center field. The solo shot gave New York a 3-0 lead in the third inning, which would hold as the final score.

As his 415-foot drive landed in the seats, Alonso raised both arms in triumph while running to first base. Mets teammates came out of the dugout to congratulate him as he rounded the bases, and the crowd of 32,210 at Citi Field gave a standing ovation to a player nicknamed "Polar Bear" during spring training by teammate Todd Frazier.

"It's surreal. It was almost like an out-of-body experience,'' said Alonso, a 24-year-old who debuted on Opening Day. "Unbelievable moment.

"This is more than a dream. This is more than fantasy. I can't put it into words.''

Alonso raised both arms again when he crossed home plate, then tilted his head back and looked skyward as he stood in front of the dugout. Overcome with emotion, he had tears in his eyes when he went out to his position at first base in the top of the fourth inning.

"I was just kind of thinking about all the greats in the game of baseball. I was thinking about guys like Babe Ruth, Ted Williams, guys like Aaron Judge,'' Alonso said, "and the fact that I'm ahead of those guys as a rookie, it's mind-blowing.''

"He's not moved to tears often,'' his mother, Michelle, said on the Fox telecast. "So for him to feel that reward and be moved to tears, that warms my heart because I was certainly falling in my seat at the moment at the same time. It was a family cryfest.''

Michelle and her husband, also named Pete, were sitting in the stands along with the player's fiancée, Haley Renee -- who was recording a video of the plate appearance.

"I usually never video his at-bats because I get superstitious,'' she said. "Now I have that forever.''

Alonso's father recalled coaching his son in Little League games in Tampa, Florida.

"When that ball was in mid-flight, it was all flashing in front of me,'' his dad said. "It was like an out-of-body experience.''

The ball was caught by a father attending the game with his wife and three kids. The family gave the ball to Alonso and met with the Home Run Derby champion after the game, receiving autographed memorabilia.

Alonso heads into the final day of the regular season leading the majors in homers, four ahead of Cincinnati's Eugenio Suarez. No rookie since 1900 has won an outright home run title in the big leagues.

He also has a shot to be just the third Home Run Derby winner to finish the season with the most homers; Ryan Howard was the last to do it in 2006 (58 HRs), and Sammy Sosa did it in 2000 (50 HRs).

Alonso already has set franchise records for homers, total bases (347) and extra-base hits (85). He has 120 RBIs and 102 runs, becoming the first Mets rookie to reach triple digits in both categories. The home run was his 11th of September.

Judge offered to take Alonso to dinner in the offseason -- on Judge's dime.

"He's paying for it? Oh, dang,'' Alonso said. "Is he picking where we're eating or am I picking? I'll talk to him. But if he's picking the place, it's probably McDonald's or something, because I eat a lot. But if I get to pick and it's on him, then it may be like Peter Luger [Steak House].''

ESPN Stats & Information and The Associated Press contributed to this report.

DENVER -- Josh Hader and the Milwaukee Brewers got the help they needed from the Chicago Cubs. They will need a little more after blowing a chance to pull even in the NL Central race.

Hader gave up a tying home run with two outs in the ninth inning and the Brewers lost to Colorado 3-2 in the 10th Saturday night, preventing them from catching St. Louis atop the division.

The Brewers will go into Sunday's regular-season finale one game behind the Cardinals, who lost 8-6 to the Chicago Cubs. If the Cards and Brewers wind up tied, there would be a one-game tiebreaker Monday in St. Louis for the division title.

If the Brewers don't overtake the Cardinals, they will play at Washington on Tuesday night in the NL wild-card game.

"It's a tough loss, but we play tomorrow and there's going to be more games after that," manager Craig Counsell said. "We're playing to force a [game] 163 tomorrow."

With a chance to tie for the division lead, Hader quickly retired the first two batters in the ninth. But rookie Sam Hilliard then stepped up as a pinch-hitter and launched an opposite-field drive to left off the Brewers closer that made it 2-all.

"Exactly where I wanted it," Hader said of the pitch. "He got a bat on it, elevation took it from there. There's times where you execute your pitch and get the result that you didn't want."

Trevor Story led off the Colorado 10th with his 35th home run, connecting against Matt Albers (8-6).

The loss was more painful when the Brewers lost another player to injury. Outfielder Lorenzo Cain, who robbed the Rockies of a homer with a catch over the wall in center in the seventh, left the game in the ninth with a left ankle sprain. He was hurt trying to score from first on a double by Ben Gamel and his availability for Sunday is uncertain.

"It's really, what does he look like when he comes in tomorrow?" Counsell said. "How much swelling is there?"

Counsell was ejected in the ninth inning arguing that Cain didn't have a lane to slide home. Cain has been troubled by a problem in the same ankle earlier this month.

"If you're not going to overturn that one, then why is there a rule? Tell me what the rule's for," Counsell said.

Milwaukee built a 2-0 lead on Eric Thames' 25th home run in the fifth and an RBI double in the seventh by Orlando Arcia. Three solo home runs by the Rockies sent the Brewers into Sunday needing more help from the Cubs. Ian Desmond homered off Drew Pomeranz in the Rockies eighth.

Jairo Diaz (6-4) got the win.

Cain finished with two hits and was thrown out twice on the basepaths, but he made up for it with a big catch on Garrett Hampson's drive in the seventh. He was greeted with a line of teammates near third base as he jogged off the field after the inning.

He also made a diving catch of Yonathan Daza's sinking liner to end the sixth.

"He was incredible. Obviously, his defense -- two plays that were absolutely amazing," Counsell said. "Huge plays. That's why he's a great player and he shows up in these games."

Yasmani Grandal was also thrown out at home in the sixth when he tried to score from first on a double by Mike Moustakas.

Moustakas was back in the lineup after not starting Friday's game with a nagging sore left elbow. Moustakas said his elbow "flared up recently" but added it felt much better after a day off.

"It's something I've always dealt with," he said. "You play 162 games your arm gets a little sore."

TRAINER'S ROOM

Brewers: OF Ryan Braun was diagnosed with a mild left calf strain after having an MRI. Braun, who was hurt in Friday's loss, said he will get treatment through Sunday and is optimistic he can play as early as Monday if Milwaukee has a game to decide the NL Central.

UP NEXT

RHP Jeff Hoffman (2-6, 6.78 ERA) will start the final game of the season for the Rockies. Counsell announced after Saturday's game that RHP Adrian Houser (6-7, 3.73) will get the ball for Milwaukee.