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				<title><![CDATA[Phillips breaks finger then drives in game winner as Reds edge Brewers]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By Nick Berenz
PA SportsTicker Contributing Writer

MILWAUKEE (Ticker) -- Playing spoiler seems to suit the 
Cincinnati Reds just fine down the stretch of the 2008 season.

 

Brandon Phillips experienced the ultimate joy by driving in the 
game-winning run in the 11th inning to lead the Reds to a 5-4 
win over the wild-card leading Milwaukee Brewers before 
experiencing an extreme low after the game concluded.

Phillips found out that he broke his right index finger earlier 
in the game-winning at-bat while attempting to bunt the first 
pitch.  He was visibly upset at his locker refusing to talk with
the media.  He will fly back to Cincinnati tomorrow to be 
examined by the Reds' medical staff.

Despite having virtually nothing left to play for, the Reds have
shaken up the top of the division taking the last two series in 
Chicago and now Milwaukee.  The team has now won three straight 
and eight of 10 overall.

 

Corey Patterson knocked a one-out double to left field and 
Phillips drove him in with a line drive RBI single off reliever 
Seth McClung (5-6) for the game-winner.

"This showed us we can play with the best teams in the division 
taking two of three from the Cubs and the Brewers," Patterson 
said.  "For us, this is like our playoff and World Series, we 
know we're getting the best from them."

Rookie Ramon Ramirez pitched masterfully but was denied his 
first Major League win in his second career start.

After some control issues in the first, Ramirez settled down to 
dominate the Brewers in convincing fashion.  The young 
righthander retired 15 of the final 16 batters he faced giving 
up just one run and one hit over six innings.

"He settled down and found the strike zone, we wanted him to get
that first victory, he really threw lights out," Reds manager 
Dusty Baker said.  "He'll get that first one next time."

The Reds got back-to-back home runs in the sixth from Edwin 
Encarnacion and Jay Bruce off starter Jeff Suppan to take a 4-1 
lead.

But in the seventh, pinch-hitter Ray Durham, drove out a 
three-run home run to tie the game, 4-4, and send it to extra 
innings.  It was the veteran second baseman's fourth career 
pinch-hit homer.

"You always want to stay out of those big innings, you've just 
got to grind it out," Suppan said.  "We just have to get ready 
for the next day, there' really nothing more you can say."

Reliever Jon Adkins (1-0) picked up the win pitching 1/3 of an 
inning and Francisco Cordero picked up his 29th save with a 
perfect 11th inning.

 

The Brewers have now lost seven of their last nine games, all at
Miller Park and have failed to take advantage of the slumping 
Cubs - who lost earlier to the Cardinals 4-3.  The Brewers trail
the division -leading Cubs by 4 1/2 games.

"We know what we need to do and we're not making excuses for 
it," Brewers manager Ned Yost said.  "We need to find ways to 
get hot and produce some runs."

Fortunately for the Brewers, the Phillies also lost 10-8 to the 
Marlins earlier so the Brewers maintained their three game lead 
in the wild card race.

 

After winning five consecutive decisions, Suppan has a loss and 
a no-decision in his last two outings.  He gave up four earned 
runs over 5 1/3 innings on Tuesday.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 06:09:32 GMT</pubDate>
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				<title><![CDATA[Slumping Brewers hope to turn around homestand]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[Cincinnati (65-79) at Milwaukee (82-62), 8:05 p.m. EDT

MILWAUKEE (Ticker) -- The Milwaukee Brewers have not taken 
advantage of a long homestand.

Milwaukee looks to change its fortunes when it continues a 
three-game series with the Cincinnati Reds on Tuesday.

The Brewers are just 2-6 on their current 10-game homestand and 
have fallen 4 1/2 games behind the Chicago Cubs (86-57) in the 
National League Central Division.  Milwaukee's wild card lead 
over the Philadelphia Phillies (79-65) is down to  three games 
with a four-game series in Philadelphia looming this weekend.

Milwaukee, which is hoping to make the playoffs for the first 
time since 1982, dropped the first game of the series with 
Cincinnati in devastating fashion on Monday.  The Reds scored 
three runs in the top of the ninth to pull off a 5-4 victory.

Jeff Suppan (10-8, 4.56 ERA) hopes to turn things around for 
Milwaukee as he takes the hill.  The righthander had his 
personal five-game winning streak snapped in his last start, 
allowing five runs - four earned - in 5 1/3 innings against San 
Diego on Thursday.

Cincinnati will counter with rookie Ramon Ramirez (0-0, 2.70).  
The 25-year-old righthander threw three perfect innings out of 
the bullpen on Thursday against Pittsburgh, after allowing three
runs over seven innings in his first major league start against 
San Francisco on August 30.]]></description>
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				<pubDate>Tue, 09 Sep 2008 13:22:44 GMT</pubDate>
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