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Brewers end April with .500 record thanks to Domingo Santana

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Domingo Santana – Photo by Bill Greenblatt/UPI

The Milwaukee Brewers reached the month of May with a .500 record, and avoided a sweep at the hands of the Braves, thanks to the efforts of Domingo Santana. The young right fielder hit two home runs and accounted for all of Milwaukee’s runs in a 4-3 defeat of the Braves at Miller Park on Sunday.

Santana, who had been hitting .169 coming into the weekend series, crushed a solo home run off the video board in deep center to tie the game at one in the fifth. An inning later, Santana snuck his second homer of the day, a three-run shot, over the wall in right-center to hand the Brewers a 4-2 lead. After also hitting a home run in Friday’s loss to Atlanta, the 24-year-old Dominican now has five on the season.

Milwaukee finishes the season’s first month at 13-13, a win total that equals the number of April wins in the last two seasons combined.

The win also saw starter Matt Garza pick up his first win of the season in just his season start since opening the year on the disabled list. [Read more…]

Brewers set 2017 schedule, open at home

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miller-parkThe Milwaukee Brewers will open the 2017 Major League Baseball season at home.

For the fourth time in the last seven years, the Brewers will open up their season against the Colorado Rockies.  The opener is set for April 3, the first of a four game series against the Rockies.  The Brewers will follow that series with a three-game series against the Chicago Cubs

The Brewers interleague schedule features games against teams from the American League East, as well as the traditional four games against the Minnesota Twins.

The Brewers will face the Boston Red Sox, Toronto Blue Jays and Baltimore Orioles at Miller Park.  On the road, the Brewers will face Toronto, the New York Yankees and the Tampa Bay Rays.

The Brewers will end the 2017 season against the St. Louis Cardinals from Sept. 29 – Oct. 1.

Brewers return from All-Star Break, fall to Reds

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Scooter Gennett

Scooter Gennett

A three-run sixth inning cost the Brewers in their first game back from the All-Star break.

Milwaukee led 3-1 thanks to RBI singles by Jonathan Lucroy and Jonathan Villar, as well as a solo home run from Scooter Gennett.

But the Reds got to starter Matt Garza in the home half of the sixth to take the lead and would go on to win 5-4. Garza allowed four runs on six hits in five plus innings to fall to 1-3.

Villar and Gennett each finished with two hits. Chris carter had a home run taken away from him in the fourth thanks to a leaping catch by Jay Bruce.

The series continues Saturday with a 6:10 p.m. first pitch in Cincinnati. Jimmy Nelson opposes John Lamb.

Brewers falter in finale with Cardinals, enter All-Star break at 38-49 (AUDIO)

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Junior Guerra

Junior Guerra

The Milwaukee Brewers have no answers for the St. Louis Cardinals, and that was especially true Sunday against starter Mike Leake.

The Brewers struck out ten times against Leak, marking the 42nd time this season they have amassed ten or more K’s in 87 games played this season. They finished the game with a dozen strikeouts in a 5-1 loss at Miller Park.

Brewers rookie Junior Guerra (6-2) had a three-game win streak snapped after allowing three runs on seven hits. It marks just the third Brewers loss in the 12 games started by Guerra this season.

Milwaukee took a 1-0 lead in the first when Jonathan Lucroy singled in Jonathan Villar. That duo combined to go 4-for-8 in the game.

The Cardinals then scored five unanswered runs, hitting two home runs off Guerra in the process. [Read more…]

Kenosha’s Lux snaps state drought, Brewers select OF Corey Ray 5th overall

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Gavin Lux

Gavin Lux

A 37-year state drought ended last night when the Los Angeles Dodgers selected Kenosha Indian Trail shortstop Gavin Lux with the 20th pick overall.

Lux becomes the first Wisconsin high schooler to be selected in the first round since Nekoosa’s Kevin Brandt was taken by the Twins in 1979.

Already committed to play at Arizona State, Lux entered the draft as the second ranked high school shortstop in the nation.

In the second round, Verona catcher Ben Rortvedt was selected 56th overall by Minnesota. He’s committed to play collegiately at Arkansas.

Meanwhile, the Brewers added three players to their organization via the MLB First-Year Player Draft Thursday night.

Milwaukee chose Louisville outfielder Corey Ray with the fifth overall pick. Ray, a Chicago native, batted .319 with 55 runs, 15 home runs, 60 RBI, and 44 stolen bases his junior year with the Cardinals.

The Brewers also selected third baseman Lucas Erceg out of Menlo College with the 47th pick and catcher Mario Feliciano from the Carlos Beltran Baseball Academy.

The draft resumes at noon Friday with rounds three through ten, and the remaining 30 rounds set for Saturday.

 

 

Chase Anderson provides another stellar pitching effort in Brewers 4-0 win (AUDIO)

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Chase Anderson

Chase Anderson

A feeling of deja vu set in at Miller Park on Wednesday night. One night after Zach Davies dominated the A’s with a no-hit bid into the seventh inning, Chase Anderson nearly matched it, taking his own attempt at a no-hitter deep into the sixth as part of a 4-0 Milwaukee Brewers win to complete a two-game sweep of Oakland.

Anderson (4-6) did not allow a hit until there were two outs in the sixth inning and finished the game giving up two hits in 6 2/3 innings. The righthander struck out four in earning his second consecutive win and improved to 3-1 with a 2.03 ERA in his last five outings.

AUDIO: Chase Anderson on keeping up with Zach Davies in the rotation :14
AUDIO: Craig Counsell on Anderson outing, one night after Davies :14

Blaine Boyer and Will Smith combined to throw a scoreless 2 1/3 innings and close out the win, the Brewers’ tenth in their last 15 games. The recent run has pushed Milwaukee (28-31) within three games of a .500 record and four games of the wild card. [Read more…]

Davies no-hit bid, Carter two HR game propel Brewers past Oakland (AUDIO)

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Zach Davies

Zach Davies

He took a no-hitter into the seventh inning, and even though his bid for history ended because of a home run, Brewers start Zach Davies definitely riding a big wave of momentum.

The diminutive righthander allowed two runs on two hits over his seven innings in a 5-4 Milwaukee win to open a brief two-game interleague series against Oakland at Miller Park. Davies also with five strikeouts.

Davies (4-3), who went 3-2 as a September call-up in 2015 and is pitching for a permanent place in the Brewers rotation, has won three straight starts. In his last six outings, Milwaukee (27-31) is 5-1.

Meanwhile, the offense came almost exclusively from the bat of first baseman Chris Carter, who slugged a two-run homer in the second inning and a three-run blast in the sixth to account for all five of Milwaukee’s runs. Carter leads the team with 16 homers and 39 runs batted in after the two monster shots beyond the centerfield wall. [Read more…]

Peralta falters as run support fades in series finale in Philly

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Wily Peralta

Wily Peralta

The Milwaukee Brewers had a chance to win their fifth series of the season with a victory Sunday in Philadelphia.

Milwaukee had out hit the Phillies, but trailed 3-0 after four innings. Starter Wily Peralta allowed a ground rule double, a play that originally was called a home run but overruled on a replay review due to fan interference, and was removed with runners on second and third with one out.

Reliever Neil Ramirez entered and promptly served up back-to-back home runs, busting the game open with five runs in the fifth to make it 8-0.

The Brewers would go on to lose 8-1 to split the four-game series.

Peralta (3-7) took the loss and ran his ERA to 6.79. The righthander surrendered six runs, five earned, on seven hits in 4 1/3 innings. He allowed a solo home run in third inning. [Read more…]

Brewers blanked at Wrigley, Lucroy nearing return

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Jonathan Lucroy - UPI/Bill Greenblatt

Jonathan Lucroy – UPI/Bill Greenblatt

Cubs starter Jake Arrieta (20-6) dominated the Milwaukee Brewers to become MLB’s first 20-game winner this season. The righthander struck out 11 Milwaukee batters and allowed just three hits in a 4-0 Cubs win Tuesday night at Wrigley Field.

The playoff-bound Cubs (89-62) got to Brewers righty Tyler Cravy (0-8) when Kris Bryant blasted a two-run homer in the third. Cravy would surrender three hits and strike out three in his four innings, all en route to his eighth loss of the season.

Chicago added runs in the fifth and eighth innings off relievers Kyle Lohse and Corey Knebel, respectively.

Arrieta dominance included a stretch of 14-consecutive batters retired as he tallied his third complete game of the season.

The Brewers (63-88) play to avoid a sweep, and a 14th loss in 17 games, tonight on Chicago’s northside. Rookie Zach Davies gets the start against Kyle Hendricks. First pitch at 7:05pm. [Read more…]

Smith ejected for foreign substance leading to Brewers meltdown

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Brewers RHP Will Smith

What was a competitive pitcher’s duel in Atlanta spun out of control for the Milwaukee Brewers Thursday when relief pitcher Will Smith was ejected for a foreign substance on his right arm in the seventh inning.

Milwaukee’s bullpen would fall apart after the ejection, allowing six more runs in what amounted to a seven-run inning and led to a 10-1 Braves win to open a four-game series.

Smith entered the game with the Brewers trailing 2-1 and runners at the corners. He then hit the first batter he faced to load up the bases. Atlanta manager Freddie Gonzalez then notified the umpires of a shiny substance on Smith’s right arm a couple pitches into the next at-bat.

The umpires gathered around Smith, checked the substance, and promptly threw the lefty out of the game. Braves hitters then registered five consecutive hits off relievers Neal Cotts and Michael Blazek to blow the game open. [Read more…]