April 11- Chicago 6 Milwaukee 5 2-3
I guess Trevor Hoffman's absence can be blamed for this one, but I think Carlos Villanueva should be able to close out a 1 run game by this point in his career. Serving up a 9th inning winner to Alfonso Soriano ruined what should have been a series winner for the Crew. A missed call by Angel Hernandez on what should have been a 7th inning double play forced Bush to leave the game after 6.1 innings with a tie. JJ got the Brewer's back in front in the bottom of the frame with a 2 run double, but Ramirez tagged DiFelice for a tater in the 8th and then Villy's 9th inning meltdown. It also spoiled a game with Prince's first HR of the season.

April 10- Milwaukee 4 Chicago 3 2-2
Returning LATE from San Francisco, the Brewers didn't have much time to regroup and face Rich Harden, who would record 10 Ks in his start but newly acquired Braden Looper kept the Crew in the game, and as I paced out the final few innings of the game at my families lake house, I got treated to a nice 9th inning comeback to accompany a beautiful day. Facing Kevin Gregg, the Cubs closer, Chris Duffy worked a walk and scored on Weeks double. Then Weeks moved to 2B on a wild pitch. Hart, thankfully showing patience, walked as well and set the stage for Braun's game winning grounder to shortstop Ryan Theriot who's throw to the plate was too late to get the streaking Weeks. This is why he's at the top of the order. The game, however should not have been this close. Had McClung not surrenedured a tater to light hitting Koyie Hill (filling in for the injured Giovanni Soto) the Crew could have wrapped this up much sooner. So far, the bullpen hasn't been horrific, but not intimidating either. It was infront of the 2nd biggest crowd in Miller Park history, biggest since a Cubs game in 2003.

April 9- San Francisco 7 Milwaukee 1 1-2
Missed this one entirely thanks to being up in the air. Really didn't miss much from a Brewer's standpoint. Parra cruised through 3 innings, then didn't make it out of the 5th. A great series for Camerson was spoiled in the 9th when he lined a rope off the side of reliever Joe Martinez' head. Cameron ended up reaching base 10 out of 13 in San Francisco but looked positively upset with himself as he crouched at 2b waiting to see if Martinez could get up. The replay of him running to 1b even shows him wincing as he sees the ball ricochet off his dome and bounce towards the dugout.

April 8- Milwaukee 4 San Francisco 2 1-1
Who knew Gallardo would pitch better than Suppan... perhaps everyone except Ken Macha? In a faceoff with the Big Unit, Yo overcame the pressure to pitch 6.2 innings, give up 2 earned and K 6. I didn't listen to much of this game as I was trying to get packed up for the return to the Dairyland and had yet to activate my MLB.com audio account. But in a flurry to get some sort of update after wasting my time at Squatters watching the Jazz lay another egg against the Mavs, I returned home to get an update. That's when Lexi, my girlfriend, witnessed the intensity I put into these games. Sweating out Stetter and Coffey putting runners on in relief, I finally pulled the plug because it was getting late. Once at Lexi's place, I relaxed and waited for Baseball Tonight while watching the bottom line. Hooray, Villy saved it with 2 Ks in the 9th.