Final
Fielder homers twice as Brewers beat Astros 7-5
Jun 30, 2010 - 4:45 AMVideo
Fielder homered twice, and starting pitcher Yovani Gallardo hit a home run and was good enough over six innings to earn the victory as the Milwaukee Brewers beat the Houston Astros 7-5 on Tuesday night.
"I have never been a guy to hit singles to left field. That just happens," Fielder said. "But when I see the ball and try to swing hard like I do, more often than not good results happen. I just have got to make sure I swing like I swing."
Fielder has hit 10 of his 17 home runs in June after a slow start and is one behind the league leaders: teammate Corey Hart and Arizona's Mark Reynolds.
Fielder has hit four on the homestand and has helped Milwaukee to seven victories in nine games. On Tuesday, Milwaukee had four homers off Astros starter Brett Myers (5-6).
"We just hit the mistakes, I guess," said Fielder, who couldn't remember what pitches he hit for his two home runs. "I don't know the exact formula we used, but we were able to hit mistakes and hit them hard."
Gallardo (8-3), coming off a five-hit shutout over Minnesota, labored in six innings, giving up four runs, seven hits and two walks. He struck out five, including the last three batters he faced.
John Axford pitched a shaky ninth for his eighth save in as many chances. Michael Bourn singled with one out, and Lance Berkman drove him in with a two-out double, but Hunter Pence grounded out to end it.
Myers, 4-1 with a 1.94 ERA in nine career games against the Brewers, had his worst outing of the year, giving up a season-high seven runs and nine hits in six innings.
The four home runs Myers surrendered were a career-high - and equaled the number the Brewers had hit against him in his career previously.
"It was different, wasn't it?" Houston manager Brad Mills said. "The way he's pitched all year, that was something that we've come not to expect. It was a little bit surprising."
The Brewers were looking to rebound after one of their toughest losses of the season Monday, when they blew leads of 4-0 and 5-2 to lose 9-5 to Houston.
Gallardo got things started.
With one out in the third, he smacked a first-pitch fastball from Myers off the back wall of the Brewers bullpen. It was his third homer of the season and seventh in his career, extending his franchise record for pitchers.
Hart singled with two outs to extend his hitting streak to 14 games, and Fielder followed with a blast to right that landed halfway up the second deck just inside the foul pole.
Gallardo played a role in the Brewers' two-run fourth-inning, drawing a two-out, bases-loaded walk that brought up Rickie Weeks, whose single drove in two.
Weeks leads the majors in homers (13) and RBIs (47) from the leadoff spot.
Houston made it 5-3 with three runs in the fifth, two on an RBI single by Bourn and another on an RBI single by Berkman.
Fielder's solo shot in the fifth - to a few rows near the same spot as his first - gave him the 19th two-home-run game of his career and his second this season.
"Everybody always says that he always gets off to a slow start," Brewers manager Ken Macha said. "Here we are in June. He's warming up, and doing what he did tonight and actually this whole homestand ... will be a big boost for us."
Pedro Feliz hit a solo homer in the sixth for Houston, but Jonathan Lucroy homered in the bottom of the inning for Milwaukee.
That was enough for Gallardo, who admittedly was not at his best.
"It just got out of hand there for a little bit," Gallardo said. "We're not going to feel great every start. But it's just the way this game is.
"We have a great offense. Our hitters, one through nine, do a great job."
Gallardo would be the "nine."
"He's pitching good and hitting homers," Fielder said. "He's locked in all the way around."
Despite his struggles, Myers became the only pitcher in the major leagues to throw at least six innings in each of his first 16 starts.
"It was just one of those days," Myers said. "I made good pitches on a few of them and they hit them. I'm disappointed in the way it went down. Overall, the way I've been pitching this year so far, I just kind of got to let this one roll off.
"I figured it was going to happen sooner or later, and it did."
Notes: Myers dropped to 1-6 on the road in 2010. He is 4-0 at home. ... Brewers LF Ryan Braun remains the top All-Star vote getter among NL outfielders with 2,262,663. He leads the Braves' Jason Heyward (2.2 million) and the Dodgers' Andre Ethier (2.11 million). Braun looks to start his third straight All-Star game, which would be a first in team history. Final results are announced Sunday. ... The Astros placed RHP Jeff Fulchino on the 15-day DL with right elbow tendinitis Tuesday. Houston purchased the contact of RHP Casey Daigle from Triple-A Round Rock.
- Brewers 7, Astros 5 - FINAL
HOUSTON ab r h rbi bb so lob avg
M Bourn cf 4 2 2 2 1 0 0 .269
J Keppinger 2b 5 0 1 0 0 1 2 .274
L Berkman 1b 5 0 3 2 0 2 2 .248
C Lee lf 4 0 1 0 1 0 3 .238
J Michaels pr 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 .229
H Pence rf 5 0 0 0 0 0 4 .265
P Feliz
Jun 29 11:01 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
DOUBLE BY LANCE BERKMAN SCORED MICHAEL BOURN
SITUATION: 1 RUN IN, L BERKMAN ON SECOND, 2 OUTS
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 5
MILWAUKEE 7 TOP,9TH
DUE UP FOR HOUSTON: C LEE (.238, 1-FOR-4)
Astros 5, Brewers 7 Top 9, 0 OutsJun 29 10:55 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
SOLO HOME RUN BY JONATHAN LUCROY (2) TO LEFT CENTER WITH 0
OUT IN THE 6TH OFF BRETT MYERS.
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 4, MILWAUKEE 7
DUE UP FOR MILWAUKEE: A ESCOBAR (.246, 1-FOR-2)
Astros 4, Brewers 7 Bot 6, 0 OutsJun 29 9:55 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
SOLO HOME RUN BY PEDRO FELIZ (3) TO RIGHT CENTER WITH 0 OUT
IN THE 6TH OFF YOVANI GALLARDO.
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 4, MILWAUKEE 6
DUE UP FOR HOUSTON: J CASTRO (.286, 1-FOR-1, BB)
Astros 4, Brewers 6 Top 6, 0 OutsJun 29 9:46 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
SOLO HOME RUN BY PRINCE FIELDER (17) TO RIGHT WITH 0 OUT IN
THE 5TH OFF BRETT MYERS.
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 3, MILWAUKEE 6
DUE UP FOR MILWAUKEE: R BRAUN (.301, 0-FOR-2)
Astros 3, Brewers 6 Bot 5, 0 OutsJun 29 9:40 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
SINGLE BY LANCE BERKMAN SCORED MICHAEL BOURN
SITUATION: 3 RUNS IN, L BERKMAN ON FIRST, 2 OUTS
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 3
MILWAUKEE 5 TOP,5TH
DUE UP FOR HOUSTON: C LEE (.236, 0-FOR-2)
Astros 3, Brewers 5 Top 5, 0 OutsJun 29 9:32 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
SINGLE BY MICHAEL BOURN SCORED OSWALDO NAVARRO AND JASON
CASTRO
SITUATION: 2 RUNS IN, M BOURN ON FIRST, 1 OUT
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 2
MILWAUKEE 5 TOP,5TH
DUE UP FOR HOUSTON: J KEPPINGER (.277, 1-FOR-2)
Astros 2, Brewers 5 Top 5, 0 OutsJun 29 9:27 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
SINGLE BY RICKIE WEEKS SCORED ALCIDES ESCOBAR AND JIM
EDMONDS
SITUATION: 2 RUNS IN, R WEEKS ON FIRST, Y GALLARDO ON SECOND, 2 OUTS
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 0
MILWAUKEE 5 BOTTOM,4TH
DUE UP FOR MILWAUKEE: C HART (.281, 1-FOR-2)
Astros 0, Brewers 5 Bot 4, 0 OutsJun 29 9:15 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
TWO-RUN HOME RUN BY PRINCE FIELDER (16) TO RIGHT WITH 2 OUT
IN THE 3RD OFF BRETT MYERS SCORED COREY HART.
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 0, MILWAUKEE 3
DUE UP FOR MILWAUKEE: R BRAUN (.302, 0-FOR-1)
Astros 0, Brewers 3 Bot 3, 0 OutsJun 29 8:50 PM - NL
AT MILWAUKEE - SCORING UPDATE
SOLO HOME RUN BY YOVANI GALLARDO (3) TO LEFT CENTER WITH 1
OUT IN THE 3RD OFF BRETT MYERS.
CURRENT SCORE: HOUSTON 0, MILWAUKEE 1
DUE UP FOR MILWAUKEE: R WEEKS (.273, 0-FOR-1)
Astros 0, Brewers 1 Bot 3, 0 OutsJun 29 8:47 PM
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