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DENVER -- Chris Carters homer broke one tie to forge another, and set up a showdown on the last day of the season for the NL home run crown.Carter hit a tiebreaking home run with two outs in the top of the 10th inning, leading the Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-3 victory over the Colorado Rockies on Saturday night.Carters 41st homer of the season came on a 3-2 pitch against Adam Ottavino (1-3) and salvaged a victory after the Milwaukee bullpen gave up a three-run lead in the eighth and ninth.He also tied Colorados Nolan Arenado for the NL lead in long balls. Arenado hit his 41st Friday night but went 0 for 5 in Saturdays loss.The two will decide Sunday who wins the home run crown or if it ends in a tie like last year when Arenado and Bryce Harper finished with 42 each.Im not going to change anything, Carter said. Im just going to keep everything the same thing. Trying to get a pitch up in the zone and get the barrel to it. Its definitely crazy were playing against each other.His 41st home run turned the game around after the Rockies tied it. He worked Ottavino to a full count before hitting a slider 404 feet to left.I threw it where I wanted. He hadnt given me any indication he was going to hit it, so I wasnt too careful there, trying to throw a strike, Ottavino said. I regret it now, but in the moment I was pretty comfortable throwing it.Colorados rally spoiled a strong outing for the Brewers Wily Peralta, who tossed six scoreless innings to close out his season. Peralta recorded his fourth straight quality start, and ninth in his last 10 outings. He appeared headed for a win after the Brewers built a 3-0 lead.That was a heck of an effort from Wily, Brewers manager Craig Counsell said. He put up six scoreless innings here against a good lineup; its a great finish for Wily.Hernan Perez made it 1-0 in the fifth when he scored on Martin Maldonados bunt single off Rockies starter Jeff Hoffman. Ryan Braun, who finished with two hits, had an RBI double in the seventh and scored on Perezs single.The Rockies scored twice in the eighth off Corey Knebel but left two runners on. They tied it against Tyler Thornburg (7-5) in the ninth on pinch-hitter Tom Murphys RBI double.The Rockies got the tying run to second with one out in the bottom of the 10th but Jacob Barnes struck out David Dahl and got Jordan Patterson to line out to right to pick up his first save.TRAINERS ROOMRockies: OF Gerardo Parra had a platelet-rich plasma injection into his left ankle on Friday and is done for the season.CENTURY MARKCarlos Gonzalez had a run-scoring single in the eighth to give him 100 RBI on the season. It is just the second time he has reached the mark. He had 117 in 2010 and 97 last year when he hit 40 home runs.It took a while for him to reach the mark. He hadnt driven in a run since Sept. 21 despite playing nearly every day.Its beautiful, man. I think its been a while since I had that 99, Gonzalez said. I always joke about it with the guys that when Im trying to reach 99, it always gives me a hard time to reach the next one. If its nine RBI and you want to get to 10, you just hit really hard. Im really happy.GREAT STARTPatterson didnt get the key hit in the 10th but he finished with three singles. It was his first start at first base and his second start overall.Its good to see Jordan get a start, get some at-bats, Rockies manager Walt Weiss said. He had a nice play over there, so it went well.UP NEXTBrewers: RHP Tyler Cravy (0-1, 2.39) will start Sunday in what Counsell called a bullpen day.Rockies: Rookie RHP German Marquez (1-1, 6.14) will make his third start of the season and sixth appearance. Salomon Outlet Online . - Goaltender Philippe Desrosiers of the Rimouski Oceanic has broken a shutout record that was only three months old in the Quebec Major Junior Hockey League. Cheap Salomon . 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Daniil Kvyat says he was asking too much of himself in the races following his demotion to Toro Rosso and only now is he recovering to the level he wants to be at.Kvayt was dropped from the senior Red Bull team ahead of the Spanish Grand Prix in May, resulting in a return to Toro Rosso where he started his career in 2014. In that time he has scored just two points compared to teammate Carlos Sainzs 26 and admits he has been nowhere near his best.After all these things happened I think I was trying to prove myself a bit too much and trying to ask too much of myself and it was not possible. When you do this you usually tense up and thats not good because you cannot go over your own capacity.Of course I was angry at many circumstances and tried to force things, but I cannot force things and I have to go with my instincts.After recovering from a poor qualifying result with a strong race performance in Germany, Kvyat he would use the summer break to reset ahead of the second half of the season.I have been draining myself and asking things of myself that werre not possible in this car; in these circumstances after I just came to the team.dddddddddddd In Monaco and Baku it worked well [Kvyat qualified eighth and sixth respectively before technical issues in both races] and I jumped ahead of the car performance, then I felt it would be possible at the next race.But its easy to drain yourself and thats what I feel like I did. Now I have a summer break and I know what to do for the next races, so thats a good thing.Asked about his plans for the summer break, Kvyat said: Just sleep! Just switch my phone off, thats all I want to do to be honest.Maybe Ill do a couple of karting days with my old team and stay in shape. Maybe Ill have a few cold beers because I can, but then I want to train again.I was in very good physical shape in the winter, but then I lost it again because I became demotivated. Now I want to work with my trainer again and put myself back to the real good old Dany! ' ' '