September 9th, 2012 at 11:08 AM
By Chris KaminskiDon't look now Milwaukee Brewers fans but the Brewers took another step closer to the second Wild Card spot by defeating the St. Louis Cardinals 6-3 on Saturday night. With their second consecutive win over the Cardinals the Brewers moved within one game of the .500 mark on the season and pulled within five games of the Cardinals for that second wild card spot. The Brewers will play the third and final game of the series on Sunday afternoon as they go for the three game sweep and try and even their record and pull closer to the Cardinals.
On Saturday the Brewers had plenty of opportunities to score runs and put the game out of reach but they kept shooting themselves in the foot as they squandered chances for big innings. The Brewers pushed a couple runs across the board in the top of the second against Cardinals starter Jake Westbrook. Aramis Ramirez who returned from a couple games missed due to injury led the inning off with a walk. Ramirez advanced to second on a single from Corey Hart and then onto third on another single by Jonathan Lucroy. Carlos Gomez dropped down a bunt to score and advance Lucroy to second. Lucroy would come around to score the second run on a single by starting pitcher Mike Fiers who had one previous hit on the season.
Read more... Join the Conversation... September 8th, 2012 at 9:36 AM
By Chris KaminskiThe Milwaukee Brewers had to wait out the rain in St. Louis on Friday night just to get the first game of the three game series started. Once the contest started the Brewers found themselves in a quick hole. But the Brewers battled back and eventually posted a 5-4 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in 13 innings. The game lasted four and a half hours and wasn't completed until just after two in the morning. Ryan Braun made the wait worth it for the Brewers as he played hero on this night when he provided the winning run with his league leading and personal best 38th home run of the season in the top of the 13th inning off the Cardinals Lance Lynn.
The game didn't get started until 9:35 local time due to the heavy rains in the St. Louis area and Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo showed some rustiness in the Cardinals first inning. Gallardo has had his problems with the Cardinals in his career as evidenced by his 1-9 career mark to go along with a horrible 7.05 earned run average. Gallardo found immediate trouble as he allowed a leadoff single and a run scoring double to the first two Cardinal hitters. A second Cardinal run came around to score on a sacrifice fly to center and the Brewers found themselves down 2-0 after one inning.
Read more... Join the Conversation... September 6th, 2012 at 7:16 AM
By Chris KaminskiThe Milwaukee Brewers continued their winning ways on Wednesday night as they won their second consecutive game against the Miami Marlins by the score of 8-5 and pulled their overall record to two games under the .500 mark. Second baseman Rickie Weeks and first baseman Corey Hart were the offensive heroes in this victory as they both tallied four runs batted in. The pitching accolades for the Brewers belonged to rookie starter Wily Peralta who picked up the victory while making his first big league start.
Weeks who has been on a tear recently to raise his overall average from the .150's in June to .230 put the Brewers on top in the third inning when he socked a two out two run homerun off Marlins starter Nathan Eovaldi. Peralta would give one of those runs back when he allowed the Marlins a couple of hits in the bottom of the fifth.
The Brewers offense would come back to put up a four spot in the top of the sixth inning to grab a seemingly commanding 6-1 lead. The four run rally was really the result of a couple big swings from Weeks and Hart. For the second time Weeks would knock in Norichika Aoki with a longball as Weeks second homerun of the night and 16th on the season made the score 4-1. And after Aramis Ramirez singled Hart would follow with his 27th longball of the season to make the score 6-1.
Read more... Join the Conversation... September 5th, 2012 at 9:20 AM
By Chris KaminskiWith sluggers Ryan Braun, Aramis Ramirez and Corey Hart the Milwaukee Brewers can hit the home run ball with the best of teams. But getting big home runs from the likes of Norichika Aoki and Jeff Bianchi isn't as common. But it was Aoki and Bianchi that provided the offensive blows in the Brewers 8-4 victory over the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night to even their four game series at a game a piece. The win was the 12th in 15 games for the Brewers who improved their record to 66-69 on the season.
Aoki provided a couple big hits in this game. The first came early as he turned on an inside fastball from Marlins starter Wede LeBlanc in the top of the second and sent a two run home run out to right field to put the Brewers on top 3-0. The home run was Aoki's seventh of the season and gave Brewers starter Shaun Marcum an early three run lead. But Marcum fell victim to the long ball and couldn't hold the lead. The Marlins Giancarlo Stanton led off the Marlins fourth inning with a booming home run to center to make the score 3-2 in the Brewers favor. And the Marlins grabbed the lead in their half of the fifth inning when the light hitting Gorkys Hernandez took Marcum out of the park for a two run shot and the Marlins now led 4-3 after five innings.
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By Chris KaminskiThe Milwaukee Brewers arrived in Miami to start a four game series that kicked off a seven game road trip on Monday afternoon and played one of their worst games in the last two weeks as they fell to the Miami Marlins 7-3. The Brewers recent good play which had produced 11 wins in their last 13 games prior to Monday's loss had even produced talk within the clubhouse of playoff chances. But the Brewers season long issue of playing winning baseball on the road surfaced once again in Monday's contest. If the Brewers can't reverse their losing ways on the road in the last month the playoff talk is just a bunch of hot air as they play 16 of their last 28 games away from Miller Park after Monday's loss which still left the team four games below the .500 mark on the season overall.
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