Derrek Lee took a curtain call after his second homer, a grand slam that gave him a career-high seven RBIs on a night when the baseball seemed to be coming at a different speed. "Just some nights the game seems like it slows down a little bit and tonight was one of those nights," Lee said after leading the Chicago Cubs to a 9-5 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in the opener of an 11-game...
Instead of the parade of taxis that usually delivers visiting players to the loading dock entrance at Milwaukee's Miller Park, the New York Mets rode in together on a bus from their hotel. If they haven't been playing as a team lately, they at least could arrive as one. Ryan Church couldn't recall ever riding to a game on a team bus in his career.
Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder and the Milwaukee Brewers are still in first place despite a rough month. The Mets haven't been so lucky. Braun hit a three-run double and scored on Johan Santana's throwing error, sending the Brewers to a 6-3 victory on Tuesday night that extended New York's losing streak to a season-high five games.
Brewers hitting coach Dale Sveum had recently told Casey McGehee that there's nothing like the emotional swings they face in baseball. McGehee faced it all in the same inning. "I experienced them both pretty quick," McGehee said. "It's ironic people start talking about stuff and it happens right away." McGehee hit his first career grand slam moments after committing a...
Ryan Sadowski collected three game balls, not one, to remember his first major league victory. Sadowski kept his first major league pitch, first strikeout and first hit after pitching six scoreless innings in his debut, helping the San Francisco Giants avoid a three-game sweep with a 7-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.
Down by two runs in the ninth, Milwaukee refused to give in to the San Francisco Giants. Prince Fielder hit a three-run homer in the sixth and then knocked in the winning run as the Milwaukee Brewers rallied with three runs in the ninth for a wild 7-6 win over the Giants on Saturday night. "The odds of us coming back, I wouldn't say were slim, but real low," Fielder said.
Trying to rebound from a recent losing streak with a patchwork starting rotation, the Milwaukee Brewers turned to Yovani Gallardo. And starting opposite another one of the National League's best young pitchers, Gallardo didn't disappoint. Milwaukee's 23-year-old burgeoning ace outdueled San Francisco's Matt Cain, lifting the Brewers to a 5-1 victory over the Giants on Friday night.
The Minnesota Twins probably wouldn't mind hanging around Milwaukee for a few more games. As interleague rivalries go, this one was pretty one-sided. Denard Span tripled, walked three times and scored three runs in his first game back from the disabled list, and the Twins extended their dominance over the Brewers with a 6-4 victory Thursday.