“Got a couple starts left before October and just to prepare for that, that’s the mindset”. He leads the league with 15 wild pitches. “This is as close as we’ll get to a playoff atmosphere, obviously”.
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“It’s fixable”, he added.
“We enjoy each other and we have fun together”, Zobrist said, “and that’s (what) makes this kind of situation fun”. In spite of that, look at what he’s done to this point. “Keon is a great player and it stinks for him because he was getting hot”.
This was the 7th time this season that the Cubs have trailed entering the ninth inning but found a way to win the game.
Though Maddon sat several regulars, infielder Kris Bryant asked to be in the lineup.
The Brewers had a chance for a quick run in the first inning off Cubs starter John Lackey but were turned away.
With two down in the top of the third, Braun also got into a pitch from Lackey, sending it out to dead center for his 28th home run of the season and a 2-0 lead.
After Coghlan’s homer, Davies struck out three straight.
Junior Guerra pitched six shutout innings, Scooter Gennett and Domingo Santana homered and the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Cincinnati Reds 7-0 on Wednesday night to avoid a three-game sweep. After Munenori Kawasaki walked, Ross – pinch-hitting for starter John Lackey – grounded into a double play to end the inning.
Braun is hitting.279 with 16 homers and 42 RBIs since the start of August. The 30-year-old has just two quality starts over his last six outings, including a rocky start against Milwaukee on August 18 in which he earned the win despite allowing five runs in 5 2/3 frames.
“Just poor execution”, Arrieta said. He drove a first-pitch fastball far out to left-center, a 437-foot drive that showed how far the lanky rookie can hit the ball. “This is one of our goals and steps toward a bigger goal”.
I can’t find a whole lot of reasons to pick the Brewers here. “But hopefully I finish strong and we’ll see what happens”. He reached 30 home runs for the first time since he had a career-high 41 in 2012, before his 65-game suspension for violations of baseball’s drug agreement and labor contract. “Everybody’s working to hopefully come into next year with an opportunity to win a job in the major leagues again”. He struck out swinging as a pinch hitter in the ninth. He passed Pat Listach, who had 54 in 1992. Milwaukee recalled outfielder Michael Reed from Triple-A Colorado Springs to help fill a gap created by injuries to outfielders Keon Broxton (right wrist fracture) and Kirk Nieuwenhuis (abdominal strain). Broxton suffered the injury colliding with the wall in left-center in the third inning. He had gone hitless in 10 at-bats in his previous three games.
“Carlos had a bad day”, manager Craig Counsell said.
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Chicago – The Milwaukee Brewers lost a tough game to the Chicago Cubs on Friday afternoon but that’s not why the visiting clubhouse at Wrigley Field was a somber place afterward. Cubs manager Joe Maddon said the team has yet to decide whether LHP Mike Montgomery will remain in the starting rotation.
