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

The Brewers came into 2008 with hopes of ending the team's 26 year playoff drought, adding several veterans to the team in outfielder Mike Cameron and catcher Jason Kendall, as well as relief pitchers Eric Gagne and Salomon Torres.

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.

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.

During the year, Puckett put on his best performance on August 30 in Milwaukee against the Brewers, when he went 6-for-6 with two home runs, one off Juan Nieves in the third and the other off closer Dan Plesac in the ninth.

Freese's clutch play in the postseason ( excluding the popup that bounced off of his glove and head ) helped the Cardinals win the 2011 National League Pennant over the Milwaukee Brewers and the World Series over the Texas Rangers.

Whitt recorded his first career hit on September 21, hitting a home run off of Jim Colborn of the Milwaukee Brewers in a 3-1 loss.

In September 1973, he was selected off waivers by the Expos from the Yankees, and was purchased by the Brewers from the Expos after the season.

It was hit off the Brewers ' Dan Plesac on September 14, 1991.

After dropping off to. 148 in 1988 he was traded to the Brewers.

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.

On June 29, 2007, Ramírez had one of the best games of his career, in which he went 3 for 5, highlighted by ending a crucial game against the Milwaukee Brewers with a two-out, two-run home run in the bottom of the 9th off pitcher, Francisco Cordero to cap a five-run comeback win.

On April 13, Wright hit his 100th career home run, a solo shot off of Milwaukee Brewers pitcher Jeff Suppan.

In, he was claimed off of waivers by the Milwaukee Brewers, and played his first game on June 15, 2001.

On September 24, 2004, Narron was claimed off waivers by the Milwaukee Brewers.

At the beginning of the 2006 season with the Brewers, he obtained the nickname " the Southern Gentleman " for his politeness and well-mannered attitude both on and off the field.

He accomplished this in a July 19 home game at the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome in the 3rd inning off the Brewers ' Jerry Augustine.

On October 5, 1991, he made his major league debut in his only appearance of the season for Boston with a pinch hit single off of Chris George of the Milwaukee Brewers.

On September 23 of the same year, during Flemming's third-inning call of a game against the Milwaukee Brewers at Miller Park, Bonds hit a home run off left-hander Chris Capuano.

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, Green's Fitness and an area of public open space.

He was claimed off waivers by the Milwaukee Brewers from the New York Mets in.

Claimed off waivers by the Milwaukee Brewers following the 2004 season, Turnbow worked with Brewers pitching coach Mike Maddux before the season to help control his fastball, which routinely clocked in at 97-98 mph.

In August, Lane was called back to the majors, and on August 29, 2006, he hit a pinch hit grand slam off Milwaukee Brewers relief pitcher Dan Kolb in the 8th inning.

On October 1, the Rockies beat the Milwaukee Brewers 9 – 2, completing a season sweep of the Brewers and clinching the Rockies ' second playoff appearance in three years.

On August 24 the Brewers completed a sweep of the Colorado Rockies to climb to less than five games out in both the NL Central Division and NL Wild Card races, but then Milwaukee went on a 10-game losing streak that ended any postseason hope.

The Brewers did rebound and play well in September including a four-game sweep of San Francisco, but it was too little too late.

The hit not only won the game for the Brewers, but secured an opening series sweep.

Colangelo's bid received strong support from one of his friends, Chicago White Sox and Chicago Bulls owner Jerry Reinsdorf, and media reports say that then-acting Commissioner of Baseball and Milwaukee Brewers founder Bud Selig was also a strong supporter of Colangelo's bid.

Brewers then treat this base using a variety of processes in order to remove malt beverage character from the base.

The Milwaukee Brewers benefited from these events by qualifying in the playoffs as a Wild Card team, to lose to the Philadelphia Phillies, the eventual World Series winner.

* Transfer of the Milwaukee Brewers from the American League to the National League ( 1998 )

However, this rivalry did not begin to grow until, when the Brewers moved from the American League Central Division to the NL Central.

Until then, the Brewers had a rivalry with the White Sox, which had become known as The I-94 Series, as both teams are just a short drive from Interstate 94.

The guests in attendance included Aaron's first manager with the Braves, Charlie Grimm, his teammate from Jacksonville, Felix Mantilla, Eau Claire president Ron Berganson, and Del Crandall, the catcher for the 1957 world champion Braves and the-then manager of the Brewers.

The Brewers were part of the American League from their creation as an expansion club in 1969 through the 1997 season, after which they moved to the National League Central Division.

Selig had already announced plans to rename the team the Brewers, a name that had been used by past Milwaukee baseball teams ( most notably by a very successful minor league team that played there from 1902 to 1952 ).

The Brewers were transferred from the old AL East division to the newly created AL Central.

The Brewers made renovations to Miller Park before the 2006 campaign, adding both LED scoreboards from Daktronics, a company in Brookings, South Dakota, in left field and on the second-tier of the stadium, as well as a picnic area in right field, shortening the distance of the right-field fence.

The Brewers did have some bright moments during the season with pitcher Ben Sheets striking out 18 Atlanta Braves in one game and the Brewers coming back from a 9-run deficit to beat the Cincinnati Reds.

Despite poor performances from the usually steady Chris Capuano and more nagging injuries to Ben Sheets, the Brewers found themselves in a heated pennant race with Chicago's North Siders.

That win, and the win the next day, by the Brewers kept the Padres from advancing to the playoffs.

However, the Brewers season would come to an end on Sunday as Jeff Suppan allowed three home runs to lose 6 – 2, eliminating them from the postseason in four games.

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

The Brewers were not able to build on their success from the year prior falling below. 500 but were witness to Prince Fielder setting the all-time franchise record for RBI.

Along with their team accomplishments, the Brewers had many individual achievements from their players.

Combined with stellar hitting of Ryan Braun, Aramis Ramirez, Corey Hart, and Jonathan Lucroy, the Brewers, from August 16 to September 23, won 26 of 35 games, and as of September 24, only 2 1 / 2 games out of the second Wild Card spot, with a 79-73 record.

However, the Brewers were eliminated from postseason contention on Spetember 30, a 7-0 loss to the Houston Astros.

The original Brewers uniforms were " hand-me-downs " from the Seattle Pilots.

Selig had originally planned to change the Brewers ' colors to navy and red in honor of the minor league Brewers, but was forced to simply remove the Seattle markings from the Pilots ' blue-and-gold uniforms and sew " BREWERS " on the front.