Reus buys all Dortmund fans beer in farewell game
Borussia Dortmund favorite Marco Reus bought beer for nearly a whole stadium of the team's fans at his final home game for the club on Saturday.
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Borussia Dortmund favourite Marco Reus bought beer for nearly a whole stadium of the team's fans at his final home game for the club on Saturday.
"It was planned in advance," Reus said. "It was perfect, I'm unbelievably grateful for all the love people have shown me."
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Before treating everyone to a drink, he treated them on the field to a goal and setting up another in the 4-0 win over Darmstadt in Dortmund's final Bundesliga game of the season.
More than 81,000 supporters attended the match, though not all were of beer-drinking age, but many will have availed of the captain's offer, possibly more than once.
Dortmund posted on X a note signed by Reus in which he says, "Thank you for everything! The farewell beer on me," followed by a smiley face and "your Marco."
Dortmund didn't show the final bill.
The 34-year-old Reus is leaving Dortmund after 12 years at the club. He scored with a spectacular free kick in the 38th minute after setting up Ian Maatsen for the opener.
"You could hardly think it any nicer," Dortmund sporting director Sebastian Kehl said. "It would be a perfect farewell if we didn't want to crown him again in two weeks. So it was his last act here, but there's another to come. We're taking a good feeling with us to Wembley."
Dortmund next face Real Madrid in the Champions League final at Wembley Stadium in London on June 1.
Reus said he wants to continue his career, though didn't say where.
"I want to play on because I feel good and believe in myself, but first the Champions League final is in focus," Reus said.
Reus won the German Cup with Dortmund in 2017 and 2021 after rejoining his hometown club from Borussia Mönchengladbach in 2012. He was player of the year in 2012 and 2019. Altogether, he scored 170 goals in 428 games for Dortmund.
He scored 15 goals in 48 games for Germany, but missed out on important tournaments because of injuries.
Information from The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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HOUSTON -- — William Contreras hit a go-ahead three-run homer off Justin Verlander in the fifth inning to give the Milwaukee Brewers a 4-2 win over the Houston Astros on Saturday night.
The Brewers trailed by 1 when Joey Ortiz singled to start the fifth before Verlander (2-2) walked Sal Frelick and Jackson Chourio to load the bases. Milwaukee tied it when Ortiz scored on a sacrifice fly by Blake Perkins.
There were two outs in the inning when Contreras sent Verlander’s 13th pitch of the at-bat to center field to put the Brewers on top 4-1 and chase the three-time Cy Young Award winner.
“I think that is probably the best at-bat I’ve had in my career,” Contreras said in Spanish through a translator. “I think mostly in part to the type of pitcher that Justin Verlander is there.”
Milwaukee manager Pat Murphy raved about the at-bat.
“It's one of the best ones I've seen in my career and my career is a hell of a lot longer than his,” the 65-year-old Murphy said. “That just made a statement of who the guy is and kind of represents our team. That at-bat — that's mental toughness.”
Verlander also weighed in on the matchup.
“Great at-bat,” Verlander said. “We got in a fight and he won. ... I made a bunch of good pitches and he's one of the best hitters in baseball and he got me.”
Verlander yielded four hits and four runs in 4 2/3 innings. He struck out three Saturday to give him 3,368 career strikeouts, to pass Max Scherzer (3,367) for 11th on the all-time list.
Jake Meyers had two hits with a solo homer for the Astros, whose season-long six game winning streak was snapped.
Milwaukee starter Bryse Wilson allowed five hits and two runs in 4 2/3 innings. Hoby Milner (2-0) gave up one hit in 1 1/3 scoreless innings for the win.
Trevor Megill allowed one hit in a scoreless ninth for his sixth save.
The Astros had runners on first and third with two outs in the eighth, but Jeremy Peña grounded out to end the inning.
Meyers singled with one out in the third before moving to second on a wild pitch. The Astros took a 1-0 lead when he scored on a single to center field by Mauricio Dubón.
The home run by Meyers with one out in the bottom of the fifth cut the lead to 4-2.
TRAINER’S ROOM
Brewers: Closer Devin Williams, who has missed all season with stress fractures in his back, played catch for the first time since he was shut down Saturday at Minute Maid Park. Williams made about 25 throws from 60 feet and said he felt good.
Astros: RHP José Urquidy, who hasn’t played this season because of a forearm strain, allowed seven hits and five runs — four earned — in four innings for Double-A Corpus Christi in his second rehabilitation start Saturday night. Manager Joe Espada said he’ll need one more minor league start before returning to the team.
UP NEXT
Houston RHP Spencer Arrighetti (1-4, 7.52 ERA) opposes RHP Colin Rea (3-1, 3.45) when the series wraps up Sunday.
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