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The Brewers lost 9 games in a row in May and never fully recovered, finishing the season 77 – 85, which was good for 3rd place in the National League Central division, behind the Cincinnati Reds and the St. Louis Cardinals.
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Brewers and lost
The Brewers won the second half of the 1981 season ( divided because of a players ' strike ) and played the Yankees in a playoff mini-series they ultimately lost.
The Brewers faced the California Angels in the 1982 American League Championship Series and lost the first two games in California, but then rallied to win the next two games back in Milwaukee, setting up the pivotal Game 5, with the winner being the American League Champions.
However, soon starters JJ Hardy, Rickie Weeks, and Corey Koskie were lost to injuries, and the Brewers were forced to trade for veteran infielders David Bell and Tony Graffanino.
Shortly before the All Star break the Brewers climbed to one game above. 500, but then lost their next three to the Chicago Cubs and would never return to. 500.
The Brewers won 3 – 1 while the New York Mets lost to the Florida Marlins 4 – 2, sealing the Brewers the Wild Card spot.
The Brewers lost the first game of the NLDS 3 – 1 on a dominant performance by Phillies pitcher Cole Hamels.
The Brewers lost game 2 of the NLDS due to ace CC Sabathia giving up a grand slam early in the game, leaving after 3 and 2 / 3 innings ( his shortest and last outing as a Brewer ).
The Brewers lost several key players from the 2008 playoff campaign following the season.
During the off-season, the Brewers lost C. C.
The Brewers did suffer some early losses in spring training, as Zack Greinke was lost to a rib injury that would keep him out for a month, and Corey Hart was out for the first half of April with a hamstring injury, which caused the Brewers to make a last-minute trade at the end of spring training for Washington Nationals outfielder Nyjer Morgan.
Molitor was part of a young Milwaukee Brewers team that lost the 1982 World Series in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals.
* September 3: The Tigers lost to the Brewers, 11-2, as Fidrych had the worst outing of his young career, and Mike Hegan hit for the cycle for Milwaukee.
He later joined the Angels lost the 1979 ALCS to his former team, and then lost again to the 1982 Milwaukee Brewers.
" He lost 6-0 to the Milwaukee Brewers and left-hander Mike Caldwell on July 7, lost 2-1 to the Baltimore Orioles and left-hander Mike Flanagan on August 4, and lost 8-1 to the Toronto Blue Jays and left-hander Mike Willis on September 20.
Ultimately, the Brewers lost to the Cardinals in seven games, with Thomas striking out against Bruce Sutter to end the Series.
The Twins lost 9 – 8 to the Milwaukee Brewers, wasting Ward's effort.
Simmons met his old team, the St. Louis Cardinals in the 1982 World Series, hitting two home runs before the Brewers lost in a seven-game series.
The Brewers lost the NLCS against the St. Louis Cardinals in 6 games.
He lost his job as the closer to Akinori Otsuka, and on July 28, 2006, Texas traded Cordero, Kevin Mench, Laynce Nix and Julian Cordero to the Milwaukee Brewers for Nelson Cruz and Carlos Lee.
Brewers and 9
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.
With a 9 – 5 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on July 29, 1986, Anderson became the first to achieve 600 career wins as a manager in both the American and National Leagues.
The Twins lose 9 – 8 to the Milwaukee Brewers, wasting Ward's effort.
On December 9, 2007, Gagné reached a preliminary agreement with the Milwaukee Brewers.
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.
On May 9, 1984 he caught all 25 innings of the White Sox's 7-6 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
Ramón Antonio García Fortunato ( born December 9, 1969 in Guanare, Portuguesa State, Venezuela ) is a former Major League Baseball right-handed pitcher who played for the Chicago White Sox ( 1991 ), Milwaukee Brewers ( 1996 ) and Houston Astros ( 1997 ).
The next day, he homered and had five RBIs in a 9 – 4 victory over the Brewers.
On September 5, he stole four bases in a 13 – 9 win over the Milwaukee Brewers.
He had four hits on May 30 in a 9 – 3 win over the Brewers.
John Lane ( 1808 – 1873 ) owned and ran the Wenlock Brewery from 1840 until his death, initially as " Lane & Bowden " ( the 1842 Post Office Directory mentions “ LANE & BOWDEN, Ale Brewers, 9 Wenlock Road ”).
In, Belliard established career highs in several categories, including games ( 152 ), runs scored ( 83 ), hits ( 150 ) and doubles ( 30 ) while setting the Brewers ' National League franchise record with career-high 9 triples.
On June 9, 2010, Lee hit his 300th career home run in a game against the Milwaukee Brewers.
In a deal to avoid an arbitration hearing on February 8, 2006 at 9: 30 a. m., Clark and the Brewers agreed to a one-year, $ 3. 2 million contract after a long negotiation process at 1: 45 a. m., with under eight hours before the hearing was scheduled to begin.
* 2nd ( 2nd spot or 2nd hole ) batter, # 9 Marquis Grissom ( the Brewers ' Center Fielder ) on a 2-ball, 2-strike count grounds out 5-3 ( 3rd baseman to 1st baseman ).
* 4th batter ( clean-up hitter ), # 21 Jeff Kent ( the Giants ' 2nd baseman ) hit a fly ball that was caught by the Brewers ' Right Fielder ( 9 ) for the 3rd and final out of the inning.
He earned his final win on September 9, 1992 against the Milwaukee Brewers.
On December 9, however, he re-signed a new contract with the Brewers.
In the 1982 World Series, Iorg played for the Cardinals, primarily as their World Series designated hitter ( the entire 1982 World Series was played under American League rules ) and batted. 529 with 9 hits in 17 at bats as the Cardinals defeated the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games.
Brewers and games
In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.
One of the games played in Milwaukee that year was against the expansion Seattle Pilots, the team that would become the Brewers.
The Brewers finished in 3rd place in the AL East, 6. 5 games behind the first place New York Yankees.
The Brewers became the first team to win the American League Championship Series when down two games to none.
The Cardinals won the next two games and seemed to have Game 4 in complete control until the Brewers rallied for six runs in the 7th to win the game 7 – 5.
The Brewers then won Game Five 6 – 4, giving them a 3 – 2 series lead, but the Cardinals trounced Don Sutton winning Game 6 13 – 1, and rallied for three runs late in Game 7 to win the Series, 4 games to 3.
Many point to the lack of a bullpen for their downfall, as the Brewers had the lead in five of the seven games.
In 1992, reminiscent of the resurgence which greeted Trebelhorn's arrival in 1987, the Brewers rallied behind the leadership of rookie manager Phil Garner and posted their best record since their World Series year in 1982, finishing the season 92 – 70 and in second place, four games behind that year's eventual World Champion Toronto Blue Jays.
The Brewers finished 2002 even worse, finishing with a dismal 56 – 106 record, 41 games out of first place, the worst record in franchise history.
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 team's playoff drive took a hit late in the year, however, losing three of four games in a crucial series in Atlanta, dropping the Brewers to a season-high 3. 5 games out of first.
The Brewers won the first two games of their final homestand of the season to pull within two games of the Cubs, but faced a near impossible task with the club's elimination number down to only three and the wild card leading Padres coming to town.
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 off the sweep from the Cubs with an amazing August, winning 20 of 28 games in the month.
With a steady five game lead for the Wild Card, the hope of a playoff spot seemed secured, but the Brewers struggled in September, first getting swept by the New York Mets, and then just over a week later, getting swept in four games by the Philadelphia Phillies, losing their lead in the Wild Card.
Feeling a change was needed, the Brewers fired manager Ned Yost with just 12 games left in the season, replacing him with Brewers third base coach Dale Sveum.
With the final 6x games at home, the Brewers were still in the hunt for the Wild Card behind the New York Mets.
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.
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