Brewers team doctors confirmed on Monday that starter Yovani Gallardo has a strained left oblique muscle.  Gallardo was hurt in the 3^rd inning of Sunday’s loss to St. Louis. 

The Brewers ace won’t go on the disabled list but manager Ken Macha says he won’t be pitching in the All-Star Game.  Gallardo was named to his first National League All-Star team on Sunday before he took the mound in St. Louis.  Ironically he should have been out of the inning before he was injured as shortstop Alcides Escobar committed two errors that would have ended the inning.

Gallardo is 8-4 with a 2.58 ERA this season.  The team officially says Gallardo is day-to-day.

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Former Brewers Outfielder Geoff Jenkins will formally announce his retirement from baseball in a press conference on Friday, July 9 at Miller Park.

Jenkins played 11 Major League seasons, 10 of which came as a member of the Milwaukee Brewers. He played his final season, 2008, with Philadelphia.  He made his Major League debut with the Brewers on April 28, 1998 and was named a National League All-Star in 2003. 

Jenkins ranks among the Brewers all-time leaders in nearly every offensive statistical category, including  home runs (2^nd, 212), slugging percentage (2^nd, .496), RBI (4^th, 704), total bases (4^th, 2188), extra base hits (4^th, 521), doubles (4^th, 287), at-bats (5^th, 4407), runs (5^th, 661), hits (5^th, 1221), games (6^th, 1234), on base percentage (6^th, .347), batting average (T7th, .277) and triples (8^th, 22).

Jenkins played the 2008 season in Philadelphia where he won a World Series ring.