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Giants close set with Brewers at Miller Park

May 29, 2011 - 2:39 PM (Sports Network) - Yovani Gallardo tries to win his fifth consecutive start today when he takes the hill for the Brewers in the rubber match of a three- game series against the San Francisco Giants.

Unbeaten at home this season with a 4-0 ledger, Gallardo hopes to close out a successful stay at Miller Park for the Brewers. They moved to 7-1 on the homestand that concludes today with a 3-2 victory on Saturday.

Gallardo is coming off a seven-inning performance against Washington on Monday when he fanned nine batters. He's 4-2 lifetime against the Giants.

Matt Cain takes the ball today for the Giants, as he tries to bounce back from a loss to the Marlins on Tuesday. The Giants are 7-3 when the right-hander starts this season.

This will be Cain's sixth career start vs. Milwaukee. He's 2-3 with a 4.24 ERA against them thus far and has hurled at least six innings in all five contests.

Yesterday, Jonathan Lucroy laid down a perfect squeeze bunt in the bottom of the ninth inning to score Ryan Braun with the winning run.

Carlos Gomez hit an inside-the-park home run, his third homer of the year, and Prince Fielder and Braun both chipped in with hits to pace the Brewer offense.

John Axford (1-1) tossed a scoreless ninth to pick up the win for Milwaukee, which got back on the right track after dropping Friday's contest to snap a six-game winning streak.

Guillermo Mota (2-2) gave up the winning run to absorb the loss for San Francisco.

Pat Burrell helped out with an RBI single for the Giants, who weren't able to carry over the momentum from their 5-4 win over the Brewers in the series opener.

The Brewers got 7 1/3 strong innings from starter Randy Wolf, who gave up two runs -- one earned -- on only three hits. He fanned five and walked two.

With the bases full, Lucroy was sent up as a pinch hitter and dropped down his bunt down in front of an unsuspecting Giants infield. Mota charged it in front of the mound, but the ball bounced under his glove and Braun scored standing up.

"I have a lot of confidence in Lucroy swinging the bat and I have a lot of confidence in him being able to bunt." Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said. "I know a lot of times you don't squeeze with the bases loaded, just because you have a force at home. Lucroy got it down to a place where they couldn't get it, and with Braun's speed, that's what made it."

San Francisco won five of seven matchups with Milwaukee a year ago, including a four-game sweep at Miller Park from July 5-8.