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Brewers win pitchers duel at Miller Park

May 25, 2009 By

Bill Hall The Milwaukee Brewers won a pitchers duel at Miller Park, knocking off the St. Louis Cardinals 1-0 at Miller Park on Memorial Day. 

Yovani Gallardo and Chris Carpenter were locked up in a real pitching duel.  In fact, Carpenter was perfect through 6 innings before Craig Counsell led off the seventh with a single to break up the perfect game.  The Brewers failed to score though and both Carpenter and Gallardo went on to work 8 strong innings before giving way to the bullpen.

For the second day in a row, Brewers manager Ken Macha had a mix up with the umpires, only this time it appears to be his own fault.  Macha tried to double-switch Trevor Hoffman and third baseman Bill Hall, but apparently he didn't notify the umpires of the switch soon enough.  So Macha had to bat Hoffman second in the bottom of the 9th.  That meant a one-inning stint for Hoffman and the Brewers failed to score in the 9th.

Carlos Villanueva retired the Cardinals in the 10th.  In the bottom half, Casey McGehee reached on an error by Cardinal 3rd baseman Brian Barden.  He eventually scored on Bill Hall's looping single to right center for the walkoff game winner. 

Hall didn't start the game.  Ken Macha instead went with rookie Mat Gamel, who made his first home start.  Hall is in a terrible hitting slump, going 1 for his last 28 on the last road trip.  But he's the hero on this day as the Brewers end a 3-game losing streak and move back 1-game in front of the Cardinals for first place atop the Central Division.

In all, just five hits between the two teams, 3 by the Brewers and 2 for the Cardinals.  Game two of the series is tomorrow night at Miller Park.

 

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Brewers make roster move

May 25, 2009 By

The Milwaukee Brewers made a roster move prior to today's game against the St. Louis Cardinals.  The Brewers purchased the contract of outfielder Frank Catalanotto from Double-A Huntsville. 

To make room on the roster, the Brewers sent left handed pitcher R.J. Swindle to Triple-A Nashville.

 

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Planet Trek gives a sense of solar system's scale

May 25, 2009 By

Jupiter on the Planet Trek Dane County trail You can ride your bike through the solar system in Wisconsin this summer. Call it a combination of outdoor recreation and science education. Jim Lattis, director of UW-Madison's Space Place, says Planet Trek utilizes the Dane County trials system to represent eleven major objects in the solar system, at a scale of 1-to-200-million.

"The smallest object we represent, which is the largest of the asteroids, now called the dwarf planet Ceres, is only the size of a peppercorn," explains Lattis. "At that scale though, we had to put Pluto in Mount Horeb, about twenty three and a half miles from the Sun, which we located at Monona Terrace."

Lattis says that sort of scale gives a much more realistic sense of the solar system than anything on the printed page. "It begins to dawn on you how vast the space is, and in what sort of huge regions of space those lonely planets are orbiting out there," he says. There's a Planet Trek event on June 20th, with guided tours of the inner planets, not too far from the Sun at Monona Terrace, or for the adventurous, all the way out to Pluto in Mount Horeb.

"One of the things that we thought would be interesting about this project is that it's sort of a combination of science outreach with outdoor recreation," Lattis says. "A way to make a recreational, physical activity have a science education component to it." And not just as astronomy, as the taking the tral all the way to Mount Horeb will take Planet Trekkers past lakes and wetlands as well.

AUDIO: Bob Hague interview (7:30 MP3)

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Brewers swept by Twins

May 25, 2009 By

Justin Morneau ripped a 7th inning grand slam off of Mitch Stetter in the 7th to lead the Minnesota Twins to a 6-3 win and a 3-game sweep of the Milwaukee Brewers at the Metrodome.  The Morneau homer was somewhat controversial because just one batter earlier, Mitch Stetter appeared to hit catcher Joe Mauer on the hand with a pitch.  But home plate umpire Adrian Johnson ruled foul ball, only to change the call after Twins manager Ron Gardenhire argued with him at home plate about the call.  Then came Morneau's heroics.

Joe Mauer and Joe Crede also homered for the Twins, who have scored 43 runs in their last four games.  Joe Baker allowed 7-hits and struck out 6 in 8 1/3 innings for the win.

Mike Cameron also hit a solo homer in the fourth and is now a member of the 250 home run and 250 stolen base club, just the 20th player to join that company.  Prince Fielder also added a 2-run homer in the 9th for the Brewers.  Dave Bush took the loss.

The Brewers are back home to host the St. Louis Cardinals today.

Listen / Download – Ken Macha on 7th inning controversy. :20

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Carthage College among final four

May 25, 2009 By

Mike Hughes The Carthage College baseball team gets at least one more day in the sun at the NCAA Div. 3 College World Series.  The Red Men knocked off Shenandoah 9-8 in 11 innings to win an elimination game at Fox Cities Stadium.

Carthage saw a couple of big leads get away before catcher Mike Hughes homered in the 11th to win it. 

Carthage faces St. Thomas in another elimination game at noon today (Monday) at Fox Cities Stadium.

 

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