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| Brewers to wrap up series with slumping Cards |
MLB Baseball |
05/12/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The Milwaukee Brewers seem to have found their winning ways as they wrap up a four-game series versus the NL Central-rival St. Louis Cardinals tonight at Miller Park. The Brewers have won two of the first three matchups in this series following consecutive three-game sweeps at the hands of Houston and Florida. In Sunday's 5-3 victory over the Cards, Ryan Braun clubbed a pair of home runs and J.J. Hardy recorded three hits with an RBI. Milwaukee starter Jeff Suppan gave up one run on six hits |
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| Gagne relieved of closing duties for Brewers |
MLB Baseball |
05/11/2008 |
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| Milwaukee, WI (Best E Casino) - Milwaukee Brewers manager Ned Yost announced before Sunday's 5-3 win over St. Louis that Eric Gagne had been relieved of his closer duties and will approach the ends of games with a closer-by- committee. Gagne, 32, signed a one-year contract in the offseason after splitting last season with the Texas Rangers and Boston Red Sox. The 2003 National League Cy Young Award-winner, Gagne (1-2) has recorded nine saves this season, but also has blown five while sporting a 6.89 earned run |
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| Braun leads Brew Crew past Cards |
MLB Baseball |
05/11/2008 |
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| Milwaukee, WI (Best E Casino) - Ryan Braun's fourth career multi-homer game helped the Milwaukee Brewers to a 5-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals in the third of a four-game set at Miller Park. Jeff Suppan (2-2) gave up one run on six hits with four strikeouts and a season-high five walks in seven innings to record the win. "They (Cardinals) are a very discipline, offensive team," Milwaukee manager Ned Yost said. "They very seldom swing at pitches outside the strike zone. They are a very powerful, potent offe |
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| Cardinals resume set with Brewers |
MLB Baseball |
05/11/2008 |
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| (Best E Casino) - The St. Louis Cardinals will shoot for their second straight win when they resume a four-game set with the Milwaukee Brewers today at Miller Park. St. Louis ended a three-game slide with Saturday's 5-3 victory over the Brewers, as Ryan Ludwick hit a two-run single in the top of the ninth inning to lead the way. Starter Joel Pineiro allowed two runs on four hits and three walks, striking out four through 6 1/3 innings. Chris Duncan hit a two-run homer and Skip Schumaker had two hits, a run sco |
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| Ludwick lifts Cards over Brew Crew |
MLB Baseball |
05/10/2008 |
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| Milwaukee, WI (Best E Casino) - Ryan Ludwick hit a two-run single in the top of the ninth inning, as the St. Louis Cardinals snapped a season-high three-game losing streak with a 5-3 victory over the Milwaukee Brewers. St. Louis starter Joel Pineiro allowed two runs on four hits and three walks, striking out four through 6 1/3 innings. He loaded the bases in the seventh before departing and was charged with two runs after Kyle McClellan walked two with the bases loaded. Chris Duncan hit a two-run homer and Ski |
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| Cardinals yank Jason Isringhausen from closer's role |
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05/10/2008 |
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -Jason Isringhausen got his wish. After blowing his major league leading fifth save on Friday night in a 4-3 loss to the Milwaukee Brewers, the Cardinals' embattled reliever will no longer close games, manager Tony La Russa said Saturday. ``He's still prepared to pitch important innings, but for a while we'll try to keep him out of the ninth inning,'' La Russa said. ``If we're playing well, there's still going to be games where you can't cherry pick his situations because if we're playing w |
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| Weeks wins game in ninth for Brewers |
MLB Baseball |
05/10/2008 |
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| Milwaukee, WI (Best E Casino) - Rickie Weeks hit a two-run single in the bottom of the ninth inning, as the Milwaukee Brewers snapped a season-high six-game losing streak with a 4-3 triumph over the St. Louis Cardinals. Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder and Weeks finished with two hits apiece and Corey Hart had a double with one run scored and one run batted in. Albert Pujols had two hits, including his seventh home run of the season, for the Cardinals. Rick Ankiel added two hits and a run scored for St. Louis, which |
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| Cardinals 3B Glaus leaves game with bruised left triceps |
MLB Baseball |
05/09/2008 |
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -St. Louis third baseman Troy Glaus left Friday night's game against the Milwaukee Brewers with a bruised left triceps after the Cardinals batted in the third inning. Glaus was hit by Manny Parra's 0-2 fastball to lead off the second inning, but remained in the game. He struck out in the third. Brendan Ryan replaced Glaus, who is hitting .223 with one homer and 21 RBIs.Copyright © 2005 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. The information contained in the AP News report may not be |
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| Former All-Star Turnbow accepts minor league assignment |
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05/09/2008 |
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MILWAUKEE (AP) -Former All-Star closer Derrick Turnbow accepted a minor league assignment from the Milwaukee Brewers and will report to Triple-A Nashville on Monday. ``It's good,'' general manager Doug Melvin said. ``He can go down and work on things he can't do at the big league level. Every time you're a reliever in most instances, you're brought in here with the game on the line, a small margin of error. He can go down there and relax and try to have some positive outings and regain his confidence, throw |
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| Rangers trade OF Mench to Toronto |
MLB Baseball |
05/09/2008 |
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| the Toronto Blue Jays on Friday for cash considerations. Mench, who in 2006 became one of just five players in MLB history to hit a home run in seven consecutive games, has not appeared in the majors this season, playing 29 games with Texas' Triple-A Oklahoma affiliate and compiling a .282 average with three home runs and 18 RBI. The 30-year-old signed a minor league contact with Texas on Feb. 12 after spending last season with the Milwaukee Brewers, where he hit .267 with eight homers and 37 RBI in 101 games. |
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