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				<title><![CDATA[Braun drives in 4, Fielder homers in Brewers' win]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By COLIN FLY
AP Sports Writer

MILWAUKEE(AP) -- Ryan Braun, Prince Fielder and the Milwaukee
Brewers are still in first place despite a rough month. The Mets
haven't been so lucky.

Braun hit a three-run double and scored on Johan Santana's
throwing error, sending the Brewers to a 6-3 victory on Tuesday
night that extended New York's losing streak to a season-high
five games.

Afterward, the injury-depleted Mets held a closed-door meeting
that lasted almost 30 minutes. Manager Jerry Manuel said he was
the only speaker.

"We just had a little family talk - a little private family
discussion," Manuel explained. "Just to get things in order, a
lot of things."

Fielder added a 452-foot solo homer and fill-in starter Mike
Burns earned his first major league win for the NL Central
leaders, who have won four of five. The Brewers have a two-game
lead over St. Louis despite a 12-15 mark in June.

"It couldn't get much better," Braun said. "We have a tough
schedule up until the All-Star break. We've got these guys one
more day, go to Chicago and then we've got the Dodgers and
Cardinals.

"It's definitely not going to be easy and I think where we
finish out the rest of the first half is probably going to be
pretty indicative of how the rest of our season will go."

The Mets hope their fortunes change before they fall out of
postseason contention. They went 9-18 in June, their worst month
in nearly six years. At 37-39, the third-place Mets are three
games behind first-place Philadelphia in the NL East and only a
game in front of Atlanta.

They head into July still missing injured stars Carlos Beltran
(knee), Jose Reyes (calf, hamstring) and Carlos Delgado (hip),
but Manuel said the team has enough pieces to win without its
missing stars.

David Wright agreed.

"I do, and hopefully everybody in here feels the same way. And
if they don't, we don't want them here," he said.

Even Santana (9-6) couldn't slow the Mets' spiral after a wacky
fourth inning that included an ejection and an easy fly ball
that dropped in center field for a double. The ace left-hander
also walked two, including Burns on four pitches, and made a
wild error.

A night after Brewers third baseman Casey McGehee dropped a
popup that cost Milwaukee two runs, Mets center fielder Fernando
Martinez fell flat in the outfield in the bottom of the fourth.

With a runner on and one out, Corey Hart hit a deep fly but
Martinez slipped on the grass and then carved up a divot during
his slip while the ball landed untouched about two feet away,
giving Hart a double.

Santana then walked J.J. Hardy on four pitches to load the
bases, and pitching coach Dan Warthen was ejected by plate
umpire Jim Wolf for arguing after a mound visit.

Braun, who drove in Milwaukee's first run with a single in the
third, lined an 0-2 pitch over left fielder Gary Sheffield's
head, and the relay throw from shortstop Alex Cora bounced away
from catcher Omir Santos before he could tag Hardy.

Santana was backing up the play and tried to get Braun, who had
rounded third, but Santana's throw went well over the head of
Wright, allowing Braun to score easily to make it 5-2.

"When you face a great pitcher like that you need a break or
two, and their guy falling down, all those things obviously came
back to haunt them," said Braun, who is 7 for 13 against
Santana. "Johan's not going to make too many mistakes and he's
not going to give up too many runs."

Santana, loser of three of his last four starts, fell to the
ground, staring off in disbelief. Martinez, a prized prospect,
declined to talk afterward.

"I threw some good pitches and didn't get the calls, and that
changed the whole ballgame," Santana said.

In the seventh, Santana gave up Fielder's 20th home run, a long
shot to the back of the second deck in right field, before
exiting. He allowed nine hits, four walks and five earned runs.

"The things we talked about were all positive things, trying to
get back on track and play better baseball," Santana said.

But the runs he gave up were plenty for Burns (1-1), who went 6
2-3 innings to get his first win in place of injured starter
Dave Bush (triceps).

"As soon as I got in (to the clubhouse) it felt like about 100
beers on my head," Burns said. "It was the greatest beer bath
I've ever had."

Burns' only costly mistake came when Wright hit a two-run homer
to give the Mets an early lead. Martinez added his first career
homer with two outs in the ninth off reliever Todd Coffey.

"That's a big win. That's something to be proud of," catcher
Jason Kendall said of Burns' effort. "That's a pretty good first
win over one of the best pitchers to ever play the game."

NOTES: The Mets went 7-19 in September 2003. ... It was Wright's
first homer since June 9.]]></description>
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				<title><![CDATA[Mets-Brewers Preview]]></title>
				<description><![CDATA[By MATT BEARDMORE
STATS Writer

New York (37-37) at Milwaukee (40-35), 8:05 p.m. EDT

It had been nearly two years since the Milwaukee Brewers had
defeated the New York Mets at Miller Park. On Tuesday night, the
Brewers go for their first series win at home in this series
since 2006.

Third baseman Casey McGehee committed a two-run error in the
sixth but hit his first career grand slam in the same inning,
sparking NL Central-leading Milwaukee (41-35) to a 10-6 win in
Monday's series opener. The Brewers had lost five straight to
the Mets at Miller Park since a 4-2, 13-inning victory on July
31, 2007.

"If somebody would have told me this time last year I'd have
40,000 people calling me out of a dugout for a curtain call, I
would've told you you were lying," said McGehee, who played nine
games with the Chicago Cubs last season.

McGehee's fifth homer in his last 13 games more than made up for
his dropped pop up that preceded a two-out, two-run double by
Mets catcher Brian Schneider.

"I think it even took him a couple of innings to realize what he
had done because he was still pretty upset about the dropped pop
up," Brewers shortstop J.J. Hardy said.

Hardy hit a solo homer and matched a career high with four hits.
He was 0 for 12 with four strikeouts as Milwaukee was swept in
New York from April 17-19.

The Brewers give the ball to Mike Burns (0-1, 3.72 ERA) as they
go for their first series win at home versus the Mets since May
12-14, 2006.

Burns looks for his first major league victory in his second
career start. After making 46 career relief appearances, Burns
was called up from Triple-A Nashville to replace the injured
Dave Bush (right triceps tear) last Thursday. Burns allowed four
runs and six hits over 5 2-3 innings in a 6-4 loss to Minnesota.

"When you fall behind 2-0, 3-0, you put yourself in a situation
where you still have to try to make quality pitches, and I
wasn't doing that," he told the team's official Web site after
walking three.

Burns makes his second career appearance against the Mets. The
right-hander pitched two scoreless innings in 2006 while with
Cincinnati.

The Mets (37-38), meanwhile, have slipped below .500 for the
first time since May 5.

"We're a below average team. Period," New York Manager Jerry
Manuel said after the opener of his team's seven-game trip.

Right-hander Fernando Nieve yielded a career-high 11 hits in 3
1-3 innings as New York allowed a season-high 19. Since Johan
Santana's last start - Thursday's 3-2 win over St. Louis - Mets
starters are 0-4 with a 5.66 ERA.

Santana (9-5, 3.08), who goes for double-digit victories for the
seventh straight season, takes the mound as New York tries to
avoid its first five-game slide since June 5-10, 2008. In
Thursday's victory, the two-time Cy Young Award winner gave up
two runs over seven innings. Santana, though, went 3-0 to four
of the first 11 Cardinals he faced.

"My fastball," he said, "was moving all over the place."

Santana makes his second start against the Brewers in 2009. On
April 18, the left-hander threw seven innings of five-hit ball
in a 1-0 victory. Santana is 4-2 with a 2.96 ERA in eight career
starts versus Milwaukee.

David Wright snapped an 0-for-16 slide with an RBI double in the
ninth inning and is batting .200 (3 for 15) versus the Brewers
this season.

Milwaukee is 10-15 all-time versus the Mets at Miller Park.]]></description>
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