Brewers Win Game Two

Trevor Wastes No Time Closing This One

Jason Kendall congratulates Trevor Hoffman after earning his 20th save.

Tonight the Brewers faced a slightly familiar situation. Trevor Hoffman on the mound in the ninth with a lead. This time, though, the Crew was up by three and the number of batters Hoffman needed to face to finish this one up.

In a much more entertaining game, the Brewers led the entire way with only a slight three-run fifth as Mike Burns and the Brewers' only hiccups. Mike Burns had an all around good start against an otherwise powerful Dodgers' lineup. He went four solid innings before giving up the three runs on back-to-back home runs by Rafael Furcal and Andre Ethier before finishing the inning and earning the win.

J.J. Hardy hit a long double to deep left-center that scored Prince Fielder and Mike Cameron in the eighth inning adding some much appreciated padding for Mike Burns’ lead and Trevor Hoffman’s ninth inning.

Milwaukee had Dodgers' pitcher Jeff Weaver’s number early as Ryan Braun and Fielder had first inning RBI.

In the fourth inning, Frank Catalanotto hit his first home run of the season for the Crew while Burns also helped his cause by hitting an RBI single before being thrown out my Manny Ramirez going for a double.

Mike Burns went five innings striking out seven batters while giving up three runs. After his departure, the Crew got two solid innings from Seth McClung and another from Todd Coffey before Hoffman took the ninth and picked up his 20th save of the season.

The Brewers close up the series with the Dodgers tomorrow and send ace Yovani Gallardo (8-6) to the mound to face Clayton Kershaw (6-5) in the rubber match. First pitch is scheduled for 1:05 PM CT.

Team	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	R	H	E
LAD	0	0	0	0	3	0	0	0	0	3	8	1
MIL	2	0	0	2	0	0	0	2	x	6	9	0

W: Mike Burns (2-2) L: Jeff Weaver (5-3) S: Trevor Hoffman (20)

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