Milwaukee continues to dominate on the road, even if there is a minor scuffle in the dugout! This afternoon the Brewers cruised past Cincinnati by the score of 6-3. Jeff Suppan (7-7) earned the win in a convincing manor going 7 innings giving up 7 hits and 3 runs. Keeping to his ritual of low strike outs, Soup K'd only 3 batters but issued no free passes. His big mistake came when rookie Jay Bruce nailed a 2-run dinger in the 3rd inning. Bruce hit homers in back-to-back games. That kid is something else and may get the ROY honors.
The bats came alive for the less-productive players on the Milwaukee roster. Most noteworthy being Rickie Weeks who had 4 hits (tied his career high) and 2 runs batted in. Going 4 for 5 is huge for Rickie and hopefully having the last two games off gave him a bit of a boost. His batting average sky rocketed to .231 on the season. If he gets to .260 and continues his decent on-base percentage, I will start to feel guilty for bashing him the last two seasons. That feeling of guilt will only last a minute though. Keep your chin up kid, you snapped a 5-29 slump and had the worst batting average in the line up (excluding Soup's).
-The bottom of the batting order finally came up big.
Mike Cameron also contributed greatly by going 3 for 4 (w/ a double) and driving in a run. He's been on a minie-tear as of late. Hopefully it lasts more than a week.
Both Fielder and Braun, who seem to be best friends since the Parra incident...at least on TV...hit doubles this afternoon. Ryan Braun now has 31 doubles on the season along with 30 HR's. Holy bat shit can this guy hit.
Craig Counsell continues to start, 3 straight games now, and he went o'fer...again. He is usually clutch in fillers, but has been dull as of late.
-In what appears to be the new 1,2,3 set-up rotation Eric Gagne pitched another flawless inning by striking out 1 and no walks. In all honesty, I feel that Yost should throw him a couple of save opportunities in the near future. By doing so will only raise his confidence and will allow him to do either the set-up or closer roll in September. As much as I dislike the guy as a player, he can still pitch lights out at times.
-Torres earned his 22nd save on the season, out of 26 attempts. Sweet.
-Milwaukee's top pitching prospect was promoted to Huntsville yesterday. Jeremy Jeffress has tallied 103 K's down in Brevard County in only 79 2/3 innings. His off-field actions accounted for part of the reason why he moved up; since serving a 50 game suspension at the start of the season the young hurler has put away the hookah and concentrated on baseball. He will be the youngest player on the Stars' roster (20 years old).
-The bad news is Chicago beat Houston today in the series finale, 11-4. The Good News is that they face the Cards in a 3-game series at Wrigley over the weekend. Day games too, for those that like to watch free baseball on the work computer, streamlined through a certain Japanese website....not me though...I work hard to make the cashola.
-Milwaukee will now travel back home to take on the nasty Nats. Actually, this team has stunk pretty bad as of late and were losers of 9 straight not too long ago, if my memory serves me. They to win this series...they have to. They need to capitalize off this easy line up consisting of the three worse teams in the NL (Pads, Nats, Reds).
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