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LF Ryan Braun sat out for the second consecutive game with a sore right hand. Braun batted .222 on the three-city trip with no homers and three RBI. --2B Rickie Weeks was back in the starting lineup after missing two games with food poisoning. Weeks went 0-for-5 with two strikeouts. --1B Prince F...

 PA - RHP Ben Sheets (9-2, 2.83); 7:05 pm Saturday, LHP Paul Maholm (5-5, 4.28) vs. RHP Dave Bush (4-8, 5.06); 2:05 pm Sunday, LHP Zach Duke (4-5, 3.88) vs. ...

By David Hannes The Crew returns home for the holiday for three against the Pirates. What goes around, comes around. On Thursday, the day after the Brewers scored 3 runs off of the D-backs’ pen to win the game, Arizona returned the favor…in spades. Starter Manny Parra pitched 6 scoreless innings and left wit...

By battlekow UPDATE] Ken Rosenthal says the Brewers are offering LaPorta:The Brewers' offer for Sabathia includes Class AA left fielder Matt LaPorta, according to sources with two other clubs that are interested in acquiring the pitcher. Class AA shortstop Alcides Escobar also may be in the Brewer...

By Jim McLennan Running a little late with the thread here: I actually remembered it was a day game, but had to go in for my monthly chat with the boss. Survived that, so tossing this up quickly in my morning break. We need a win here, after the total disaster which was last night - Webb takes the mound, and after a...

By David Hannes After cutting the lead to 2-1 in the 6th, the Crew tied the game in the 7th on a two-out triple by Gabe Kapler, followed by an RBI double by Mike Cameron off D-backs reliever Chad Qualls. Rickie Weeks homered to start the 8th and give the Crew a 3-2 lead, only to see Justin Upton take it back with a h...

By Rob(noreply@blogger.com) Yahoo box Welcome To The NL Worst: Brewers 4, Diamondbacks 3 A late collapse by closer Brandon Lyon, who gave up the game-winning RBI single to Mike Cameron to score Russell Branyon, lost this game for the Snakes. At 40-41, Arizona still leads the NL West, the Dodgers are 1.5 games back, and ye...

Mike Cameron singled home Russell Branyan with one out in the top of the ninth to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks Wednesday night. Cameron finished 2-for-4 with two RBIs and Rickie Weeks added his first career pinch-hit home run for the Brewers, wh...

 WI - The Brewers are guaranteed to finish at least 5-5 on their 10-game road trip and could go 6-4 if they can manage to beat the Diamondbacks with Brandon Webb ... Brewers at Arizona WBAY all 3 news articles

Brewers wrap series at Phoenix - WBAY

Brew Crew gain ground on Cards and Cubs with win against D-Backs - Pierce County Herald

Brewers Hope to Get Back on Winning Track Against Arizona - WSAW

Mike Cameron's rough road trip took a turn for the better Wednesday night. Cameron singled home Russell Branyan with one out in the top of the ninth, his second RBI single of the game, to lift the Milwaukee Brewers to a 4-3 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. "I wasn't trying to think too ha...

 - By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com PHOENIX -- Brewers outfielder Ryan Braun is looking forward to swinging for the fences at Yankee Stadium. ... Slumping Braun given the night off Milwaukee Journal Sentinel all 2 news articles

NL Central Watch: July 1 - Chicago Sun-Times

By Jeff Sackmann The other team that springs to mind, the Braves, offer something of a counterpoint.  Despite losing more one-run games than a soccer team, the Braves are right about average, hitting relievers with an OPS about 30 points lower than their average OPS.)

By David Hannes J.J. Hardy hit home runs in each of the first two innings, the second just after Joe Dillon hit his first home run of the season. Mike Rivera, giving Prince Fielder the night off a first due to a lefty starting for Arizona, also collected a pair of hits and a pair of RBI’s.

 WI - By TOM HAUDRICOURT Phoenix - On a night when they scored eight runs, it was defense that won the game for the Milwaukee Brewers. JJ Hardy rounds the bases ...

By Azreous Despite the early deficit, the offense valiantly tried to claw its way back in the game. Down 7-1, the Diamondbacks picked up two runs in the fourth (Montero's RBI single and Ojeda's RBI groundout) and two more in the fifth on Conor Jackson's eight homer of the season, which cut the lead to a m...

 - No Prince Fielder, Rickie Weeks or Russell Branyan for the Brewers tonight. Mike Rivera gets the nod at first. He's hitting sixth, one spot ahead of 3B Bill ... Weeks out with stomach virus Milwaukee Journal Sentinel all 2 news articles

By Jim McLennan Despite - or perhaps because of - last night's decent showing, runs might be hard to come by. Since April 26, Arizona have scored more than four runs on fourteen occasions. However, in the fourteen games immediately following those, we have averaged only 2.5 runs, and never scored more than f...

By Jeff Sackmann I think Daron Sutton is out to get us.  In the first inning last night, he was talking about how the D-Backs just can't seem to beat the Brewers.  He might as well have announced during the pregame that Dave Bush was throwing a no-hitter. Go Brewers!

 NC - To make room for Eric Gagne, the Milwaukee Brewers optioned former Western Carolina standout Mark DiFelice to their Triple-A club in Nashville, Tenn. ... MLB Notebook: Cardinals recall Thompson, demote Stavinoha: Tulsa World all 2 news articles

Milwaukee activates Eric Gagne from disabled list - FOXSports.com

By Jim McLennan That play, and a subsequent RBI double by Reynolds, proved to be the turning points in the game, giving Arizona a three-run lead. Not that it was all chocolate and flowers from there on, the sixth inning being particularly interesting, shall we say. It started with Davis plunking Prince Fie...

 il - If there’s one thing Milwaukee is known for, it’s beer. Home to the Milwaukee Brewers and named America’s Drunkest City by Forbes.com, residents of ...

By David Hannes MVN’s Cleveland Indians’ writer, James Pete, in Tribe Report wrote about it first (well, okay, it was the first I had read about it). The “it” is that the Brewers will trade for Indians’ ace C.C. Sabathia for the stretch run…or are at least the front-runners to do so, according to Buster Olney o...

By Jim McLennan The offenses will be key, and in particular, which will be less sucky: Milwaukee and Arizona have both struggled on their recent road-trips: the Brewers have scored 3.5 runs per game in the six games so far, while Arizona averaged only 2.4 per game on their swing from Minnesota through Bosto...

By Rick Chandler • Hi, We're The Slowskis. Kevin Slowey threw a three-hit shutout to beat Ben Sheets and the Brewers 5-0. It was Minnesota's 11th win in 12 games; its 10-game winning streak ending Saturday in a 5-1 loss to Milwaukee. Delmon Young had a two-run homer.

By Jesse Motiff The Milwaukee offense apparently decided to leave Minnesota sometime after Saturday night’s game because they sure didn’t show up on Sunday. They managed only three hits on the day against Kevin Slowey. JJ Hardy extended his hitting streak to 11 with a double. Corey Hart and Mike Cameron ea...

Dave Bush pitches another gem; Brewers continue to roll - Brewers Bar

Bush shines, Brewers walk-off in style - Brewers Bar

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By Thor Nystrom Ben Sheets was a mere mortal on Sunday. The bigger problem was that the opposing pitcher, Kevin Slowey, was doing his best Sheets impersonation. Brewers fall victim to Slowey's shutout

Twins 5, Brewers 0 - MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- Kevin Slowey breezed through ... - WQOW

Sloweys shutout sends Twins past Brewers 5-0 (AP) - NewzFire

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By Jesse Motiff The offense gave Bush an early lead as Ryan Braun singled in Rickie Weeks for the first run in the top of the first inning. Corey Hart followed that up with a fielder’s choice in which JJ Hardy scored the second run. JJ Hardy drove in a run in the second as he doubled to left field that scored Jason K...

Sheets and Brewers continue to roll - Brewers Bar

Bush shines, Brewers walk-off in style - Brewers Bar

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By battlekow JO: Just chillin’, takin’ it easy, relaxing till I go to Arizona. JO: July 1st. JO: Nope, nobody. JO: [The Astros] talked about taking me at 10, and the Cubs at 19. BCB: Did you grow up a Cubs fan or a Cardinals fan? JO: Cardinals. BCB: You're supposed to say, "I hate the Cubs!"

Brewers winning on strength of homers - MLB.com

Game Thread #76: Brewers (41-34) at Braves (38-39) - Brew Crew Ball

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By battlekow BCB: Definitely. I wanted the Brewers to draft him. MR: I got letters from a bunch, and I took psych evals for the Indians and Brewers. BCB: Michael Bowman said you're a pretty good defensive catcher. The Brewers don't have many of those. MR: I’m officially a Brewer. Got it done today.

By Jesse Motiff It was another great day of scoreboard watching for Brewers’ fans. The Cubs and the Cardinals each loss and were swept in their respective series. The Brewers are now 5.5 back of the Cubs and only 2 back of the Cardinals. It may continue to get better for the Brewers this weekend. The Cubs play the W...

By Jesse Motiff It may be too early for the team to scoreboard watch, but it is never too early to do so here at the Brewers Bar. With the Brewers’ win and a loss by the Cubs and the Cardinals, the Brewers are now 6.5 games behind the Cubs for the division lead and only 3 games in back of the Cardinals for the Wild Card....

Ben Sheets continues to make his case for the All-Star Game start - Brewers Bar

By Jeff Sackmann Two managers were fined by Major League Baseball for "failing to comply with pace of game regulations."  Word on the street (well, ok, word from my cat) is that Ryan Braun is next--if he doesn't start making outs more often, MLB will have to crack down on the extra time he adds to Brewers games.

By Jeff Sackmann The Brewers had the day off, but Adam McCalvy didn't.  He posted a feature worth reading on Jason Kendall.  He quotes Melvin saying, "If you look at the free agent catchers now, he might have been the best one."  Could be, but I don't know if I'd put that on my business card.

By battlekow BCB: Did you know the Brewers were interested in you? BCB: Is Florida International off the table? SW: Arizona, the Twins, and the Braves showed the most interest, I think. SW: Quite well, I’ve been told from my catchers. SW: I’m not a Prince Fielder. Yet. (laughs) I think I have some good power.

By Jeff Sackmann Pizza Cutter also looks at pitcher fatigue, through more traditional means.  A finding that might bring a Brewers starter or two to mind: That'll do it for today.  Check back this afternoon for the Frederickson interview, and drop in tonight for the 7:05 start in Houston.

By Jim McLennan If this game was a horse, it would have been put down after the fourth inning, and would now be exiting Miller Park in cans of Alpo. Worst performance of the season to date? It certainly could be: this was the biggest margin of defeat inflicted on the Diamondbacks, certainly. There was hardly a...

By Azreous In the meantime, the offense was wasting what few opportunities it managed to string together. Exhibit A was Jeff Salazer in the third. He doubled to lead off the inning. That's good. Then he stood on second haplessly after RJ got down a pretty good bunt. That's bad. Then he didn't score on Drew's s...

By Jim McLennan The Dodgers, to no-one's great surprise, closed the gap to 3.5 by beating the Rockies, who dropped their eighth game in a row. If Colorado keep this up, they are going to end up right alongside the 1998 fire-sale Marlins, for the biggest implosions in baseball history: Florida went from 92 wi...

By Administrator Cincinnati: Homer Bailey will make his first major league start of ‘08 on Thursday, in Philadelphia. Josh Fogg was originally scheduled to get the start, but after Saturday’s disastrous start (six runs, seven hits in 3 1/3 innings), the right-hander landed on the disabled list with lowe...

By roguejim But hey, I don't really have a problem with Badger Blogger, content notwithstanding.  It doesn't have to be abcnews.com if it doesn't want to be.  What disappointed me was the Journal Sentinel coverage of this breaking non-story. The Journal Sentinel Blogs

By battlekow Seems like the present is a rather bilious topic of late, so let's talk future: on June 5th, 17 short days from now, the MLB draft will be upon us. The Brewers, by virtue of losing Francisco Cordero and Scott Linebrink to free agency, have a boatload of picks: six of the first 62, and seven of the...

By Rick Chandler • Who's The Man? The Cardinals celebrated Stan Musial Day by naming the street out in front after him, then knocking the Rays out of first in the AL East with a 5-4 win. Boston ascended to the top spot with an 11-7 win over the Brewers. Skip Schumaker doubled in a run in the ninth to win it for St. Loui...

By rickchand • Who Lives In A Pineapple Under The Sea? First the good news, Florida Marlins fans. You're still in first, one game ahead of the Phillies. Now the bad news ... a scorpion has just crawled into your pants! Also, you're done playing the Brewers for this year. Matt Treanor had a three-run homer as Flor...

By Jesse Motiff The Brewers face the Marlins in Miami starting Tuesday night. Jeff Suppan will look to rebound from his Chicago outing and snap the Crew’s three game losing streak. Quick review for those uninformed: Yovani Gallardo was lost for the year on Friday due to a torn ACL and the Brewers proceeded t...

By rickchand Taken aback by this development, the Cubs began their inevitable fall from grace with a 10-7 loss to the Brewers, who collected 17 hits off of five Chicago pitchers (Jason Marquis started and went five innings, taking the loss). Mike Cameron, Corey Hart, Bill Hall and JJ "Kid Dyn-o-mite" H...

By Jesse Motiff I commend Dave Bush for taking his demotion like a man and staying a good teammate in the process. I’m positive he will get another shot in Milwaukee to prove his value and he will get the job done. Like most Brewers fans, I was stunned Sunday afternoon. First I have to sit at Miller Park and watch o...

By Jeff C: [Kendall] Joe Girardi 1B: [Fielder] Boog Powell 2B: [Weeks] Joe Foy 3B: [Hall] Dave Henderson SS: [Hardy] Kevin Elster LF: [Braun] Tony Conigliaro (honorable mention: Braun's #2 comp is A-Rod) CF: [Cameron] Ron Gant RF: [Hart] Sammy Sosa

By Jose de Jesus Ortiz(jose.ortiz@chron.com) • All-Star closer Francisco Cordero was even more expensive, as would be expected. But you have to wonder about a guy's commitment to winning when he leaves the young and talented Milwaukee Brewers to sign with the Cincinnati Reds for a four-year, $46 million deal with a $12 option. The Brew...

AL East (Pee-Wee Wanninger Division): The Orioles actually won a game. And it wasn't even close. Scott Moore hit a grand slam in the third and Baltimore beat up Daisuke Matsuzaka and the Red Sox 11-5. Matsuzaka is now 14-12. The Red Sox magic number stayed at 15. New York pulled is now 5 1/2 games ba...

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