As 1990s came to a close, the Brewers were on their way to becoming a perennial doormat.

As June came to a close, the Brewers made their biggest move for playoff contention as they traded 4 prospects, most notably Matt LaPorta, to the Cleveland Indians for CC Sabathia.

" The Brewers came into the All-Star break with a 52 – 43 record, still third behind the Cubs and Cardinals.

The Brewers came out of the All-Star break with a bang as they won their first seven games back, all of them on the road, sweeping first the Giants and then the Cardinals, taking over first place in the Wild Card standings.

The Brewers came into the end of July still in the hunt for the division, but the front running Cubs swept the Brewers in a four-game set at Miller Park.

The Brewers came off the sweep from the Cubs with an amazing August, winning 20 of 28 games in the month.

Relief pitcher Eduardo Rodríguez accordingly came to bat in the ninth — and hit an RBI triple, sealing the Brewers ' 13-5 win over Cleveland.

Jeffcoat hit an RBI double, and later came around to score the Rangers 15th and final run in a 15-1 pasting of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Another noted Major Leaguer, Jim Morris of The Rookie fame played for the Beloit Brewers when he came out of college in the 1980s.

Career highlights include a game-tying, 2-run pinch hit double in the top of the ninth inning against the New York Yankees, then scored to put the Pilots ahead to stay, winning 5 – 4 ( June 14, 1969 ), a walk-off, 2-run double with two outs in the bottom of the ninth for the Brewers as they came from behind and defeated the Minnesota Twins, 4 – 3 ( June 23, 1970 ), drove in both Milwaukee runs with a pair of sacrifice flies in a 2 – 1 win over the Kansas City Royals ( July 5, 1970 ), hit the only home run of his major league career, a solo shot against Chicago White Sox left-hander Jim Magnuson ( August 5, 1970 ).

Perhaps his most indelible moment of his season in Detroit came on June 24, when he cleared the right field roof of Tiger Stadium with a shot off Milwaukee Brewers right-hander Tom Tellmann.

Following the 1998 season, the Stars and A's parted ways and the Milwaukee Brewers came to town as the new Stars affiliate.

However, on May 11 against the Milwaukee Brewers, Brazelton came in relief of Jake Peavy in the 8th inning with an 8 – 0 lead and gave up 4 runs on 3 hits and a walk without recording an out.

The highlight of his time with the Royals came in 1973 and 1974, when Healy caught Steve Busby's two career no-hitters, against the Detroit Tigers and Milwaukee Brewers respectively.

Following the 1977 season, the Brewers made two big hires that turned the previously underachieving Brewers into perennial contenders.

Bamberger immediately turned the Brewers into pennant contenders in 1978.

The Brewers rebounded in June as Salomon Torres took over as closer, becoming a big success, and soon climbed back into contention.

The Brewers had a 2-1 lead going into the 9th inning when closer John Axford blew his first save since April, giving up the lead.

Brewers warm cracked malt in temperature-modulated water, activating the enzymes, which cleave more of the malt's remaining starch into various sugars, the largest percentage of which is maltose.

He hit a long home run into the upper deck in Game 5 of the strike-forced 1981 American League Division Series with the Brewers, and the Yankees went on to win the pennant again.

On May 10, 2006, Sutcliffe, while seemingly under the influence of alcohol, was invited into the Channel 4 San Diego broadcast booth during a game between the San Diego Padres and Milwaukee Brewers.

* Up 10-1 in the 8th inning of a game played on September 3, 1973, the Milwaukee Brewers elected to send DH Bobby Mitchell into left field, thereby forfeiting their right to use a DH.

Gradually men became involved in brewing and organised themselves into guilds such as the Brewers Guild in London of 1342 and the Edinburgh Society of Brewers in 1598 ; as brewing became more organised and reliable many inns and taverns ceased brewing for themselves and bought beer from these early commercial breweries.

On July 9, 2003, during the Milwaukee Brewers ' " Sausage Race ," in which four contestants wearing sausage costumes have a footrace on the field, Simon leaned over the dugout railing and hit college student Mandy Block ( in the Italian sausage costume ) with a bat, causing her to fall into the path of another racer.

It was built in 2005 and is the current home of the Brewers, replacing the club's old Eton Park home, also on Princess Way, which was demolished and developed into housing.

In 1972 another ownership group brought baseball into town to replace the group that left to Midland, and brought with it an affiliation with the Milwaukee Brewers, just two years removed from their move to Wisconsin from Seattle.

Early into the 2008 season, the Brewers also added a sponsored strikeout counter to the tier of the second deck of the right field bleachers, which illuminates a K when a Brewers ' pitcher notches a strikeout and keeps track of how many strikeouts as a team the Brewers have.

Following every Brewers home run and victory, Bernie Brewer slides into a home plate shaped platform ( The Kalahari " Splash Zone " was discontinued for the 2012 season ).

The site just off junction 4 on the M5 Motorway has been developed into a community with offices, houses, industrial units, Empire Cinemas, Hollywood Bowl, Premier Inn, Brewers Fayre, Morrisons, Gala Bingo, Greens Fitness and an area of public open space.

In, Giles was poised to wage a campaign similar to 2003 but, on May 15, 2004, against the Milwaukee Brewers, while drifting way back into center field to catch a pop fly, he collided with center fielder Andruw Jones.

Following each home run and every victory by the Brewers, he slid down and plunged himself into a huge beer mug in celebration.

In 2008, the Brewers achieved their first postseason berth in the 26 years since their World Series appearance as the wildcard team in the National League.

The Brewers finished the 2008 season one game ahead of the New York Mets in the wild card race with a final record of 90 – 72, and faced the Philadelphia Phillies in the NLDS.

The Brewers lost several key players from the 2008 playoff campaign following the season.

In 2008, the Phillies clinched their second straight division title and defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in the Division Series to record the franchise's first post-season victory since winning the 1993 NLCS.

Established in 2007, the Brewers won second place at the 2008 US College Quidditch Cup held at Middlebury College.

Eighteen teams have all hosted an all-star game at least twice since the Mets last did: Atlanta Braves ( 1972 and 2000 ), Chicago White Sox ( 1983 and 2003 ), Cincinnati Reds ( 1970 and 1988 ), Cleveland Indians ( 1981 and 1997 ), Detroit Tigers ( 1971 and 2005 ), Houston Astros ( 1968, 1986, and 2004 ), Kansas City Royals ( 1973 and 2012 ), Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim ( 1967, 1989, and 2010 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1975 and 2002 ), Minnesota Twins ( 1965, 1985, and 2014 ), New York Yankees ( 1977 and 2008 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1976 and 1996 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1974, 1994, and 2006 ), San Diego Padres ( 1978 and 1992 ), San Francisco Giants ( 1984 and 2007 ), Seattle Mariners ( 1979 and 2001 ), and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1966 and 2009 ), and Washington Senators / Texas Rangers ( 1969 and 1995 ).

He recorded his first career save April 3, 2008 with a win over the Brewers.

James Shields threw a total of 11 complete games in the 2011 season for the Tampa Bay Rays, becoming the first pitcher to reach double digits in a single season since CC Sabathia threw 10 complete games for the Cleveland Indians and Milwaukee Brewers in 2008.

The team has had several different major league affiliations: the Pirates ( 1954 – 58 and 1966 – 68 ), the White Sox ( 1959 – 65 ), the Pilots / Brewers ( 1969 – 70 ), the Tigers ( 1971 – 75 ), a Tigers / White Sox co-op ( 1976 ), the Dodgers ( 1977 – 79 ), the Giants ( 1980 – 94 ), the Padres ( 1995 – 98 ), the Reds ( 1999 – 2000 ), the Expos ( 2001 – 2002 ), and the Rangers ( 2003 – 2008 ).

However, he was less successful in stints with the Boston Red Sox and Milwaukee Brewers, and was finally released after the 2008 season.

In December 2007, days after signing a contract for 2008 with the Milwaukee Brewers, he was linked to baseball's steroids scandal after he was named in the Mitchell Report.

Pitching for the Milwaukee Brewers on April 12, 2008

Gagné became a free agent following the 2008 season and re-signed with the Brewers to a minor league deal.

On June 3, 2008, Johnson struck out Mike Cameron of the Milwaukee Brewers for career strikeout number 4, 673.

Charlie Papazian, president of the Brewers Association, published the following tasting notes for Pabst Blue Ribbon in 2008: " A contrasting counterpoint of sharp texture and flowing sweetness is evident at the first sip of this historic brew.

Sexson was the first of three players in Brewers history to have 100 or more RBIs in three consecutive seasons along with Fielder in 2007 – 2009 and Ryan Braun in 2008 – 10.

Former Oakland Athletics manager Ken Macha was named a rotating analyst on this program in April 2007, but left after the 2008 season to become the manager of the Milwaukee Brewers.

On July 5, 2008 during the Pittsburgh Pirates game against the Milwaukee Brewers, the Pirates wore Pittsburgh Crawford uniforms while the Brewers wore the respective Negro league uniforms of the Milwaukee Bears.

On December 18, 2008, he signed a minor league contract with the Milwaukee Brewers.

Ramirez signed a minor league contract with the Milwaukee Brewers in January 2008.

He has served as a hitting coach with the Louisville RiverBats ( 1999 ), Indianapolis Indians ( 2000 ), Milwaukee Brewers, Jacksonville Suns ( 2008 ) and Chattanooga Lookouts ( 2009 ).

Geremis Segundo González Acosta ( January 8, 1975 – May 25, 2008 ) was a Venezuelan right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago Cubs (–), Tampa Bay Devil Rays (–), Boston Red Sox (), New York Mets () and Milwaukee Brewers ( 2006 ).

He had brief stints with the Cleveland Indians and Atlanta Braves in 2008, and also with the Milwaukee Brewers in 2009.