Adam McCalvy
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Mad dash: Burnes seizes chance to turn on the jets
PITTSBURGH -- You already knew Corbin Burnes’ credentials as a pitcher. Who knew he’d also be a serviceable pinch-runner? Burnes’ surprising sprint from the home plate area to the dugout and down the tunnel at PNC Park was one of Milwaukee’s many highlights in a 19-2 win over the Pirates → Read More
Athletic excellence a family business for this Brewers prospect
PHOENIX -- There are athletic families, and then there is the veritable Olympic team that is the Turang clan of Corona, Calif. The patriarch, Brian, is a one-time Brewers Draft pick who made it to the Major Leagues as a Mariners utility man in the early 1990s. The matriarch, Carrie, → Read More
What happened? Breakdown of final play
Perhaps some viewers asked the same question at home, after they stopped screaming. Or crying. Or both. What just happened? → Read More
Mike Moustakas returns to Brewers
PHOENIX -- It was just a day earlier that Brewers third baseman Travis Shaw said he would welcome Mike Moustakas back to the Brewers with open arms, even though it would cost Shaw his primary position. On Sunday afternoon, Shaw got his wish. → Read More
Brewers hold off Dodgers for 12th straight win
MILWAUKEE -- To the national audience just tuning in to what's been going on in MLB's smallest media market: Welcome to Brewers baseball. Game 1 of the National League Championship Series on Friday night at Miller Park was a nine-inning primer on how the Brewers got to this point -- a harrowing 6-5 win over the Dodgers that gave Milwaukee a 12th straight victory and a 1-0 lead in the… → Read More
Lineups, matchups, FAQs for Rockies-Brewers
The Brewers will be well-rested. The Rockies will be battle-tested. Those teams will meet in a best-of-five National League Division Series after knocking off the Cubs at Wrigley Field on consecutive days in back-to-back thrillers. The Brewers beat Chicago in Monday's NL Central tiebreaker to earn the league's top seed, home-field advantage throughout the NL playoffs and a couple of welcome days… → Read More
Josh Hader apologizes for offensive Tweets
WASHINGTON -- Brewers reliever Josh Hader answered for a series of offensive tweets from 2011 and '12 after they surfaced in the wake of his appearance in Tuesday's All-Star Game. "I was young, immature and stupid," Hader said. "There's no excuses for what was said." → Read More
Lorenzo Cain, Christian Yelich safe in rundown
MILWAUKEE -- Christian Yelich used his legs. Lorenzo Cain used his head. And the Brewers used the Cubs' big mistake to double their lead Tuesday night on the way back to first place in the National League Central. Cain's baserunning brilliance helped the Brewers escape a rundown before Travis Shaw delivered the second of his two-run doubles in Milwaukee's 4-0 win, the latest installment of an… → Read More
Brewers' Bubba Derby honors Vegas victims
PHOENIX -- This is a baseball story, not a tragedy story. Brewers pitching prospect Bubba Derby can tell both, unfortunately, and his glove is a good place to start. It's a Rawlings made of black leather with "58 strong" embroidered in gold script along the thumb. Derby had it made to remind him of the 58 concertgoers killed last Oct. 1 by a gunman from the 32nd floor of a Las Vegas hotel. That… → Read More
Brewers reportedly make offer to Yu Darvish
MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers reportedly have jumped into the fray for top free-agent starter Yu Darvish, who made sure his nearly two million Twitter followers knew all about it. With a single emoji -- the thinking face -- Darvish shared via tweet a Japanese-language news report that the Brewers had submitted a formal offer for the 31-year-old right-hander. The original report cited "multiple… → Read More
Brewers walk off against Cubs in 10th inning
MILWAUKEE -- Orlando Arcia lined a tying leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth inning and Travis Shaw hit a walk-off two-run blast in the 10th as the Brewers twice rallied against lights-out Cubs closer Wade Davis for a stunning 4-3 win on Saturday at Miller Park. Chicago's magic number to clinch the NL Central remained at five over St. Louis, pending the Cardinals' result later Saturday… → Read More
Kris Bryant, Cubs defeat Brewers in 10 innings
MILWAUKEE -- This was not the postseason, but it sure felt that way Thursday night at Miller Park as the Cubs and the Brewers traded late-inning blows in Milwaukee's most charged September ballgame in years. Javier Baez hit a tying two-out RBI single in the ninth, Wade Davis escaped a bases-loaded jam to force extra innings and Kris Bryant's two-run home run in the 10th sent Chicago to a 5-3 win… → Read More
Chase Anderson, Brewers shut out Pirates again
PITTSBURGH -- The Brewers, thanks to their strong arms on the mound and in the outfield, won another series. Now they will eye a sweep. Chase Anderson continued his string of solid starts by pitching six scoreless innings, and Domingo Santana backed him with a solo homer in a 1-0 win over the Pirates on Tuesday at PNC Park. The shutout was also aided by the burgeoning reputation of center… → Read More
Reds sweep division-rival Brewers
CINCINNATI -- Whatever momentum the Brewers were building toward their weekend series at Wrigley Field, the Reds ripped it away. Last-place Cincinnati completed a three-game sweep of a Milwaukee club that entered the week winners of six of eight games, scoring five times in the third inning and riding Luis Castillo's stellar start to a 7-1 win on Wednesday at Great American Ball Park. The Reds… → Read More
Billy Hamilton's walk-off homer powers Reds
CINCINNATI -- Ryan Braun and Orlando Arcia homered in the seventh as the Brewers erased a four-run deficit, but Billy Hamilton and the Reds struck back. Hamilton's homer off Brewers rookie reliever Josh Hader with two outs in the bottom of the ninth inning gave the Reds a 5-4 win over the Brewers on Monday at Great American Ball Park. Braun turned and watched the baseball fly into the left-field… → Read More
Jimmy Nelson and Brewers shut out Nationals
MILWAUKEE -- It was meaningful September baseball at Miller Park, complete with the chill in the air. With Miller Park's convertible roof buttoned up and the Cubs already with a win in the books, the Brewers kept pace in the National League Central by riding Neil Walker's first-inning home run and Jimmy Nelson's stellar start to a 1-0 win over the Nationals. → Read More
Brewers starter Zach Davies wins 16th game
MILWAUKEE -- Brewers starter Zach Davies stayed hot while the Nationals' Gio Gonzalez hit a rare speed bump in Milwaukee's 6-3 win at Miller Park on Thursday. Jesus Aguilar hit a go-ahead single in the third inning and Jonathan Villar smacked a two-run homer in the fifth as the Brewers collected eight hits and scored five earned runs off of Gonzalez, who hadn't surrendered that many hits or runs… → Read More
Brian Dozier backs Bartolo Colon in Twins win
MILWAUKEE -- Bartolo Colon is proving there is still something left in his 44-year-old tank. The veteran right-hander followed last week's complete-game victory over the Rangers with seven scoreless innings against the Brewers on Wednesday, leading the Twins to a 4-0 win at Miller Park. Colon yielded five hits, all singles, to spoil the home debut of Brewers pitching prospect Brandon Woodruff,… → Read More
Brewers post eight-run inning in win over Mets
MILWAUKEE -- After leaving the bases loaded in a fruitless fourth inning, the Brewers exploded for eight runs in the fifth for their biggest single-inning strike in more than four years and beat the Mets, 11-4, on Saturday at Miller Park. Zach Davies still hasn't completed a sixth inning this season, but the Brewers bailed out their starter by sending 11 men to the plate in the decisive fifth… → Read More
Adam Wainwright does it all as Cards beat Crew
MILWAUKEE -- Here's one way for the Cardinals' Adam Wainwright to get back on track: start mashing. Struggling on the mound to start this season, Wainwright took matters into his own hands at the plate on Friday by driving in four runs including a go-ahead, two-run homer in the Cardinals' 6-3 win over the Brewers at Miller Park. Wainwright's two-run moonshot STL@MIL: Wainwright mashes a two-run… → Read More