Casey McGehee doesn’t mind having 26 RBIs on the month as of Friday. It’s the most in the majors in August and is several shy of a few club hitting records, namely Gorman Thomas (32 in 1979) and Cecil Cooper (32 in 1980). It’s also an impressive number considering that at this time last year, McGehee was just trying to keep his knee serviceable.
“There were days that even just running out to my position before the game wasn’t fun,” McGehee said.
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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Earlier this week, Manny Parra was ushered out of the starting rotation. That paved a path for Milwaukee Brewers’ Chris Capuano, who starts Saturday against Pittsburgh.
“When I step onto the mound tomorrow, it will be a feeling of freedom,” said Capuano. “It’s a feeling of release. I can get let go. That’s truly the time you can enjoy the fruits of your labor.”
Three years of intense labor, to be exact. After rehabbing from not one, but two Tommy John’s surgeries, Capuano was placed in relief duty, making 15 relief appearances this season and going 1-2 with an ERA of 3.54. While the bullpen work has prepared the lefty for longer stretches, nothing is sweeter than getting back to the starting spot he has been eyeing all along.
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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Bud Selig didn’t leave Milwaukee. Not before reinforcing ties to his alma mater, the University of Wisconsin–Madison. First, he made an announcement of several endowments that will benefit students. Then he discussed the prospect of returning to school, and teaching history there!
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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I grew up less than four miles from the spot Milwaukee Brewers’ starting pitcher Yovani Gallardo was robbed at gunpoint overnight Thursday into Friday. I was also there when he spoke to reporters Friday afternoon and Yo was certainly a little freaked out, enough to probably avoid S. 20th and Lincoln Ave. for a few months.
Gallardo and one of the Brewers’ clubhouse attendants Alex Sanchez were robbed at gunpoint early Friday morning. According to the police report, the suspect asked for money and jewelry, which Sanchez handed over. Sanchez was then struck in the head with the butt of the suspect’s gun. Gallardo was not hurt.
“We were just getting a bite to eat and trying to stay out of trouble,” Gallardo told reporters Friday afternoon outside the Brewers’ clubhouse. “We were just trying to go home and obviously trouble found us.”
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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If you’re a fan of a great baseball team, congratulations! You’re part of the elite minority that will truly enjoy August/September baseball.
If you happen to love a team wallowing in the sewers of their respective division, at least you knew the team wasn’t going to sniff 82 wins and they’re not going anywhere but up.
If you’re favorite team happens to fall into baseball’s purgatory, like the Milwaukee Brewers, you’ve been let down the most this season thanks to underachieving, mediocre baseball.
However, the day-in and day-out Jeckle and Hyde performances are actually part of the reason it’s still worth paying attention to Milwaukee Brewers baseball as September rolls in.
By Jake McCormick
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Dylan Covey didn’t have much interest in playing college baseball, had informed prospective teams before the MLB Draft of what he wanted out of a contract, and was a physical away from etching his name into the history books as the Milwaukee Brewers 2010 first round pick.
Then came the physical diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes that ended Covey’s career as a Milwaukee Brewer before it even started.
By Jake McCormick
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Every day brings us closer to the inevitable disappointing end to the Milwaukee Brewers 2010 campaign. Because of that fact, it’s time to envoke the ever present four word mantra consistently echoed throughout Wrigleyville: There’s always next year.
By Jake McCormick
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Milwaukee Brewers Manager Ken Macha says that Rickie Weeks’ approach and work ethic at the plate makes him one of his favorite players. Macha isn’t sure how to rank them all, he just knows Weeks is up there. He has even compared Rickie to baseball Hall of Famers.
“I don’t know how to rank people. It’s hard to do that,” Macha said. “I talked about [Andre] Dawson the other day because he was going to the Hall of Fame. That’s a pretty high compliment if you’re going to compare the two guys as far as their intensity.
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Like a too-long car ride on a cross-country family vacation, the Milwaukee Brewers just want Saturday’s trade deadline to be over and done with.
“Everyone just wants to get that day over with,” said Corey Hart. “When we’re past it, we can move forward.”
“It comes and goes. It’s one of those things where you know business is business,” says Rickie Weeks. “We’re on a team with talent and you want to keep that. Sometimes you can’t keep it. Team cohesion, that’s a big part of playing every day in baseball and we want to keep that.”
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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There’s hair on the chinny, chin, chin of a number of Milwaukee Brewers players. And the team’s ace-in-the-making Yovani Gallardo is sporting a mohawk. What’s with the hair extraordinaire? That didn’t throw Tuesday night’s game for Gallardo, did it?
“No, it’s not that,” says Gallardo. “Can’t blame it on that. Can’t blame it on anybody but yourself.”
If anything, new hairstyles and facial hair seem to be good luck charms. Prince Fielder has let his beard grow a bit longer than we’ve seen in weeks past. George Kotteras has a nice, full beard. John Axford’s token mustache has grown so long, it has surpassed the Rollie Fingers’ curl and curved down towards the chin. Corey Hart also hasn’t touched his full beard.
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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Randy Wolf came in as a pinch hitter, Alcides Escobar used his skills in left field and George Kottaras tried out right field. That’s not even the strangest substitution in the Milwaukee Brewers lineup Tuesday night.
With Carlos Gomez and Jim Edmonds sharing duties in centerfield and Corey Hart’s hot streak, Joe Inglett has waited patiently to see playing time in the outfield this season. He had no idea he would also see some time on the mound.
“Actually, he was instructed by both myself and Rick Peterson,” said Macha. “I keep telling people you’ve got to change speeds. That should be an indication.”
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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On the final day of a three-game series with the division’s now-tied-for first-place Reds, the Milwaukee Brewers host an afternoon rubber game. The game is not televised today; which means you can tune in on your radio or follow along on foxsportswisconsin.com.
Tuesday night’s loss prevented the Crew from earning a broom trifecta—or third consecutive home sweep—after the Crew swept both the Pirates and the Nationals at Miller Park earlier this month. Today, we’ll keep you informed live from Miller Park with updates during the game @MilwBrewersBeat on Twitter as well as post-game coverage and features.
By Melissa S. Wollering, Brewers Contributor to FoxSportsWisconsin.com & The Sportsbank.net
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Milwaukee Brewers Manager Ken Macha is really angry. Finally. And Major League Baseball did something about it Monday afternoon.
After Braves’ Jonny Venters threw a breaking ball over Prince Fielder’s head Saturday, he drilled Prince in the back, hard. Fielder had hit a game-tying homer in his previous at-bat. That puts the Prince at 14 plunks this season, third in all of baseball and two behind teammate Rickie Weeks, who leads all of baseball with 17.
Manager Ken Macha could be angry about a number of things going on with his Milwaukee Brewers. Regardless, Ken Macha is putting his foot down on Major League Baseball for failing to police pitchers for intentionally drilling hitters. Major League Baseball responded by suspending Venters for four games and fining him an undisclosed amount and suspending Braves’ Manager Bobby Cox for one game.
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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Perhaps he was trying to prove to the Milwaukee Brewers organization that his dismal start to the season has no bearing on his talent. Maybe he was putting on a show for other clubs interested in acquiring him. Either way, Corey Hart was on a mission during the Home Run Derby Tuesday night.
“Anytime you make the [All Star] team it’s good, but to basically just point a finger at the Brewers and say ‘I told you so’ would be more gratifying than anything,” said Hart, in an interview late last month.
Corey Hart got just that, smacking 13 out of the Angels Stadium in the Home Run Derby’s first round. But then he recorded a goose egg in the second round; zero homers across the allotted 10 outs. So do the Milwaukee Brewers keep the hot hitter or trade him before the Hart stops beating?
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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Besides Ryan Braun, who on the Milwaukee Brewers team is All-Star material this year? Is Yovani Gallardo deserving of a pitching spot? Does Corey Hart have a chance? What would it mean for the man whose rough March and April has all but been forgotten?
“Anytime you make the team it’s good, but to basically just point a finger at the Brewers and say ‘I told you so’ would be more gratifying than anything,” says Hart, in a good-natured way.
The Brewers have had at least three players on the All-Star roster in each of the last four years. However, the Milwaukee Brewers were playing baseball above the .500 mark during all four seasons.
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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This weekend, Manager Ken Macha could have announced what role Doug Davis would play for the pitching staff and how that might affect the rest of the roster. Instead, Ken Macha announced Doug Davis will most likely make a start for the team sometime before the All Star break. First, however, he will make a third rehab start June 30 in Class A ball in Appleton.
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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What partially prevented Rickie Weeks from extending his six-game hitting streak Saturday night? Being hit by yet another pitch, make that two in one game.
“It happens sometimes,” says Weeks. “You know they try to throw me in and miss and hit me. I can’t do anything about it.”
Weeks leads all of baseball in plunks with unlucky 13. Weeks was tied with Prince Fielder prior to Saturday with eleven. Following the drama is becoming ‘fun’ so-to-speak, and there’s no better place to follow plunks throughout baseball than at Plunk Everyone. So why all the pain and why inflict it on the same two Brewers—coincidence?
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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It was hard to refrain from dancing upon entering the Milwaukee Brewers Clubhouse Saturday. In honor of the one-year anniversary of Michael Jackson’s death, the locker room was in the midst of cranking MJ tunes at top volume all weekend.
“Always good to have Michael Jackson in the clubhouse going,” says Rickie Weeks. “Everybody grew up with it, everybody loves it.”
By: Melissa S. Wollering
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If you hit a double to left-center, drive in your pitcher and your leadoff man who was just walked, then slide head-first into home plate thanks to an error by the opposing pitcher, you must be none other than Corey Hart.
“I’m still tired,” said Hart. “I wish there wouldn’t have been that many mistakes so I could have stayed there.”
A throwing error by pitcher Doug Fister accounted for Hart being able to dive home slip-and-slide-style after batting-in Randy Wolf and Rickie Weeks to make it 3-2 Crew. Good thing it was the Brewers’ sixth sellout crowd of the season, so fans could stand and cheer in sheer disbelief of the spectacle.
By: Melissa S. Wollering, TSB Brewers Beat Writer & Fox Sports Wisconsin Guest Writer
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Follow me live from the Miller Park Press Box on Twitter @ MilwBrewersBeat. I’ll be giving you the most amusing anecdotes from Game 2 in this Interleague series as the Milwaukee Brewers try to extend their winning streak to six games. I am also covering the game today for Fox Sports Wisconsin, of which you can read more here.
If you were enjoying World Cup Soccer Saturday, you will be happy to know that the Brewers players were right there with you. The team warmed-up by kicking the soccer ball around in the locker room and then moved the warm-up out onto the field here at Miller Park. The Crew has now conducted two soccer warm-ups in as many days.
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