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Thursday 08-28-2008 4:07pm CT
Bernie Miklasz of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch opines on Wednesday's Brewers-Cardinals game. Click here to read the blog entry. Brewers top three million in ticket sales
Thursday 08-28-2008 12:00pm CT
(From The Associated Press) Baseball fans are filling Miller Park in record numbers this season.
The Milwaukee Brewers said Thursday the team has reached the 3 million mark in total tickets sold for the season.
The Brewers have sold out 21 consecutive home games so far, and have 37 sellouts for the season overall, both all-time highs for the club.
Through 65 home games, the Brewers average attendance is 37,994. That ranks ninth best in all of Major League Baseball.
The Brewers previous high for home attendance in one season was set last year at 2,869,144.
GAME REPORT: Cardinals 5, Brewers 3
Wednesday 08-27-2008 11:12pm CT
(From The Associated Press)
Ryan Ludwick lacked a triple for the cycle and had two RBIs to lead the St. Louis Cardinals' comeback from a three-run deficit in a 5-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers on Wednesday night. Rebounding from a 12-0 rout Tuesday, the Cardinals scored four runs in the eighth inning and pulled within 3 games of the Brewers for the NL wild-card lead. That's where they were starting a two-game series that was their final shot against Milwaukee. GAME REPORT: Brewers 12, Cardinals 0
Wednesday 08-27-2008 12:07am CT
(From The Associated Press) Ben Sheets worked six scoreless innings and Ryan Braun was 3-for-5 with a two-run homer to help the Milwaukee Brewers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 12-0 on Tuesday night.
Prince Fielder had three hits and two RBIs for the Brewers, who have won seven straight over the Cardinals and are 10-4 overall heading into the season series finale on Wednesday. Craig Counsell doubled twice and had three hits as the Brewers (77-55) moved 22 games above .500 for the first time since they were 92-70 at the end of the 1992 season.
The Brewers moved 4 games ahead of the Cardinals for the wild card berth and remained five games behind the first-place Chicago Cubs in the NL Central.
Sheets (12-7) beat the Cardinals for the sixth time in 20 career decisions, allowing five hits and retiring his final eight hitters.
Braun is batting .491 with seven homers and 13 RBIs against the Cardinals this season.
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Monday 08-25-2008 3:27pm CT
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel writer Don Walker tackles a good question: What is a sellout at Miller Park? Click here for the whole story. OPINION: CC: Closer to an MVP than a Cy Young?
Sunday 08-24-2008 6:03pm CT
(By Chris Ruddick, The Sports Network)
The CC Sabathia for NL Cy Young Award talk is starting to pick up some steam. Actually, "picking up steam" is the wrong phrase, but everyone seems to be asking me these days if he has a shot at winning the award.
If anything, I think he has a better shot at an MVP Award than he does a Cy Young. Personally, I don't think he has a shot at either, but if I had to make a case for Sabathia to win one of them, it would be MVP.
However, if voters couldn't find a way to get Pedro Martinez an MVP Award in 1999, I find it hard to believe they would vote for someone who was only in the league for a little more than half a season.
Sabathia has been incredible since being acquired from Cleveland back in early July, going 8-0 with a 1.60 earned run average, while finishing five of his nine starts for the Brewers. He is probably going to get seven or eight more starts so he should probably end the year with at least 14 NL wins.
Of course, Rick Sutcliffe won the NL Cy Young Award in 1984 for the Chicago Cubs after getting dealt by the Indians, thanks to a 16-1 mark in 20 starts.
Keep in mind, though, that Sutcliffe did not have the kind of competition for the award that Sabathia has in Brandon Webb, who is probably going to win 20 games this season and could get more than 24 victories - something that hasn't happened in the Senior Circuit since Steve Carlton won 27 in 1972.
Unlike the Cy Young, though, for which Webb is the odds-on favorite, the NL MVP race is still wide open. If Milwaukee makes the playoffs, you can easily make a case for giving the big lefty the award. I wouldn't, but someone could definitely make the case.
At the All-Star break I would have given it to Philadelphia's Chase Utley, but he would need a miracle at this point to resuscitate his chances.
The Chicago Cubs have been the best team in the NL this season, but they don't really have a viable contender. I guess you can make an argument for St. Louis' Albert Pujols or David Wright of the New York Mets, but to paraphrase Michael Corleone, the real NL MVP has yet to reveal himself.
Crazy prediction here: Ryan Howard belts close to 20 home runs in September and leads the Phillies to an NL East title and wins his second MVP Award.
Sabathia, on the other hand, will have to settle for a deal topping $100 million this offseason. Not a bad consolation prize.
GAME REPORT: Brewers 4, Pirates 3 (12 innings)
Sunday 08-24-2008 6:02pm CT
(From The Sports Network) J.J. Hardy hit a game-winning single in the 12th inning after Guillermo Mota got out of a bases-loaded, no-out jam in the top of the inning, giving the Brewers a 4-3 victory and completing a sweep of the Pittsburgh Pirates.
CC Sabathia threw only six innings -- tying for his shortest outing as a Brewer, allowing one run and eight hits while striking out five. It gave him ten straight quality starts, amassing every start he has had since the trade. Mota (4-5) got the win after getting out of the jam in the top of the 12th.
Mike Cameron finished the game 5-for-5 with a homer and two RBI and Bill Hall had three hits and a run scored for the Brewers, winners of four straight. Hardy added three hits in the victory.
Paul Maholm went six innings and allowed two runs on a career-high 12 hits with five strikeouts and two walks. Jason Davis (1-4) received the loss after giving up the game-winning hit in the 12th.
Nyjer Morgan went 3-for-5 with an RBI and a run scored and Ryan Doumit added two hits and an RBI for the Pirates, who have lost four straight.
Cameron's solo shot with two outs in the eighth off Denny Bautista gave the Brewers a 3-2 lead, but Salomon Torres couldn't close out his former teammates in the ninth.
Luis Rivas led off with a single, advanced to second on a wild pitch and scored on Nate McLouth's RBI single. McLouth was sacrificed over to second, but the next two batters were retired to preserve the tie.
Milwaukee got out of a huge jam in the 12th. Doumit led off with a single off Carlos Villanueva, and Doug Mientkiewicz and Jason Michaels each worked a walk to load the bases. Mota was brought in, and he got Brandon Moss to fly out, Chris Gomez to strike out and Rivas to ground out to emerge unscathed.
The Brewers ended the game in the home half of the inning off Davis. Rickie Weeks worked a one-out walk, stole second and scored when Hardy lined a single to center.
Maholm worked out of a jam in the third to keep the game scoreless. Sabathia singled, and Weeks singled him to second. Hardy walked to load the bases with no outs, and after Ryan Braun struck out, Prince Fielder grounded into a 1-2-3 double play to end the inning.
Sabathia answered by stopping Pittsburgh's rally in the fourth. Adam LaRoche and Michaels began the inning with back-to-back singles. Moss struck out, and Gomez lined into a double play to end the threat.
Milwaukee loaded the bases with one out in the home half of the fourth, but Sabathia and Weeks struck out, keeping the game deadlocked.
The Pirates strung together a two-out rally to take the lead in the fifth. Morgan, Jack Wilson and Doumit had three consecutive singles to give Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead.
The Brewers took the lead in the sixth. Corey Hart led off with a double and scored on Cameron's RBI single. Three batters later, pinch-hitter Gabe Kapler hit an RBI single to score Hall, who had singled.
Pittsburgh tied the game in the seventh after a defensive miscue. Freddy Sanchez tripled with one-out in the frame and Morgan followed with an RBI single to center.
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