Brewers Sail into Comfortable Lead
As a surprise of the relatively-new baseball season the Milwaukee Brewers have sailed into the most-comfortable division lead in baseball. They helped their cause quite a bit over this past weekend by winning the series against the Houston Astros. It was their first road-series win against the Astros since September 1997.
Milwaukee is now three and a half games up over the second place Cincinnati Reds.
The Brewers are now planning to spend a 10-game homestand facing off three times against the World Series Defending Champion St. Louis Cardinals. Of course, the Cardinals are coming off the stunning and shattering loss of pitcher Josh Hancock.
When the two teams face off those on the Cardinals may recognize the starting pitcher for the Brewers. They will be facing Jeff Suppan who was one of the Cardinals post-season heroes and helped the team win their championship last year. The Brewers will then send Ben Sheets on Tuesday and Chris Capuano will try to become a five-game winner in the series closer on Wednesday.
“You can make a series out to be as big as you want it to be or as little as you want it to be,” said Brewers infielder Tony Graffanino. “Obviously, they’re a good ballclub, but we feel like we’re a good ballclub.”
Date: April 30, 2007
Article: Brewers Ready for World Series Champs
Reference: Major League Baseball
Reference: Milwaukee Brewers
April 30th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Definitely surprised by the Brewers so far, but I don’t think they’ll be able to hold their lead of the division past June or July.
April 30th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I agree. I think the Cardinals are going to rebound strong.
May 11th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
I think the Cubs are going to be a team to reckon with.