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Marcum leads Brewers past Cubs

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The Milwaukee Brewers inched closer to their first division title in 29 years by beating the Chicago Cubs 5-1 at Wrigley Field on Tuesday night.

Shaun Marcum threw eight strong innings, allowing 1-run on 5 hits with no walks and 7-strikeouts to pick up his 13th win (13-7) of the season.  Marcum also helped his own cause when he doubled and scored a run. 

Rickie Weeks drove in two runs and Nyjer Morgan reached base three times, stole a base and scored two runs to help the Brewers reach 91 wins for the first time since 1992. 

The Brewers magic number fell to 3, any combination of Brewer wins or Cardinal defeats totaling 3, will clinch the National League Central division. 

 

The Brewers aren’t playing like division leaders

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To say you’re worried would be admitting that there’s a problem.  So the Milwaukee Brewers are all pretending to not be worried about the team’s recent slide, a slide that has seen them drop 6 of their last 8 and see their lead in the NL Central fall to 5 1/2 games over the St. Louis Cardinals.

With 12-games left, the Brewers magic number to clinch the NL Central remains at 8 after a 6-2 loss to the Colorado Rockies at Miller Park on Wednesday night. [Read more…]

Carpenter shuts down Brewers

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The St. Louis Cardinals are extreme longshots to overtake the Milwaukee Brewers in the NL Central, but they’re not going down without a

Benches Empty: (UPI Photo/Bill Greenlatt)

fight. 

Chris Carpenter tossed a 4-hit shutout as the Cardinals blanked the Brewers 2-0 at Busch Stadium in St. Louis yesterday. 

Rafael Furcal provided the offense for St. Louis with a solo home run.  The win, coupled with Atlanta’s loss to Philadelphia, pulled the Cardinals within 6 1/2 games of Braves for the wildcard lead in the National League.

Carpenter was 1-2 with a 5.68 ERA in three previous starts against the Brewers this season.

The benches emptied in the 9th after Carpenter struck out Nyjer Morgan and Morgan threw his tobacco in Carpenter’s direction.  Morgan was restrained by teammates and eventually ejected.  Carpenter then retired Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder to complete the shutout. 

Morgan said Carpenter yelled an expletive at him, which is what caused the problems in the 9th.

The Brewers return to Miller Park tonight to open a 4-game series against the Phillies.  Chris Narveson faces Cole Hammels in the pitching matchup.

 

Brewers bang out 17 hits in win over Pirates

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The Milwaukee Brewers got their offense rolling early, scoring 7 runs in the

Casey McGehee

second inning and going on to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 11-4 at P-N-C Park in Pittsburgh.

Casey McGehee capped off the 2nd inning outburst with his 10th home run of the season. 

Former Pirate Nyjer Morgan had 4 hits, 2 runs and 2 rbi’s and catcher Jonathan Lucroy added 3-hits to support pitcher Marco Estrada.  Estrada held the Pirates to 2-runs through 7 innings as he beat Pittsburgh for the 2nd time in 11 days.

The Brewers have taken 2 of 3 in the series and shoot for the series win later this morning (11:35am start) in the finale.

Brewers move 19-games over .500

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The Milwaukee Brewers are on quite a roll.  They won for the 16th time in the last 18 games by coming from behind to beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-1, sweeping Pittsburgh in the 3-game series at Miller Park.

Nyjer Morgan’s 10th inning sacrifice fly broke a 1-1 tie to give the Brewers the win.  The Brewers hold a 5-game lead in the National League Central division over the St. Louis Cardinals.  The Pirates meanwhile, have dropped 14 of their last 16 games. [Read more…]

Brewers lead in Central grows

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The Milwaukee Brewers scored 5-runs in the 5th inning last night and went on to beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2 in their series opener at Miller Park. 

The Brewers lead in the National League Central Division over the Cardinals has grown to a season high 3 1/2 games. 

Nyjer Morgan capped off the Brewers 5-run outburst with a 3-run double, giving Milwaukee it’s 7th straight win.  The Brewers improved to 5-2 against the Cardinals this season. [Read more…]

Brewers win in 10 innings; likely lose Gomez for the Season

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After squandering a 2-0 lead in the 8th inning, the Milwaukee Brewers fought back to notch a 5-2 win in 10-innings last night in Arizona over Diamondbacks.  Unfortunately, OF Carlos Gomez broke his collar-bone while making a diving catch in the 4th inning.

Manager Ron Roenicke said after the game that Gomez would be out of action for at least 2-months, longer if he needed surgery which likely will be the season.  Gomez has been platooning in center-field with Nyjer Morgan starting against left-handed starters.  Gomez was batting .276 in that role and was 2nd on the team in stolen bases with 15.  Roenicke on the situation:

AUDIO: Ron Roenicke is happy with the win; bummed about Gomez :10

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Knuckleball is too much for Brewers!

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Tim Wakefield’s knuckleball did in the Milwaukee Brewers on Sunday.  Wakefield held the Brewers to 3-hits over 8-innings as the Boston Red Sox pulled out a 12-3 win at Fenway on Sunday.

Wakefield had little worries after the Red Sox scored 6-times off of Yovani Gallardo (8-4) in the first inning.  Gallardo was hit for 8-runs in all, on 9-hits.  He struck out only 4 in three-plus innings. [Read more…]

Morgan & Fielder lead Brewers to comeback win (AUDIO)

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Nyjer Morgan didn’t even know he won the game with his 9th inning walk off hit.  Morgan’s 2-out, run-scoring double in the 9th plated Craig Counsell from second and sent the Milwaukee Brewers to a come-from-behind 7-6 win at Miller Park.  Morgan admitted afterwards that he thought the game was only in the 8th inning.

AUDIO: Nyjer Morgan thought he was batting in the 8th :20

The Brewers led 2-1 heading to the 8th.  But Kameron Loe promptly gave up 5-runs to the Mets and things looked bleak with the Brewers down 6-2.  But the Brewers didn’t give up.  Prince Fielder tied the game 6-6 with the second of his two, 2-run homers.  Fielder now has 17 home runs and 54 rbi’s on the season.  Fielder moved past Gorman Thomas into 3rd place on the Brewers all-time home run list (209).  [Read more…]

Boggs outrighted to minors

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Outfielder Brandon Boggs has been outrighted to Triple (A) Nashville by the Milwaukee Brewers for the third time this season.  The move was made to clear a roster spot for infielder Josh Wilson, who was claimed off of waivers from Arizona on Wednesday.

Boggs became expendable because the Brewers are expected to activate Nyjer Morgan from the disabled list today.  They’ll have to make another room to have roster space for the addition of Morgan.