Milwaukee 9, Arizona 4
When: 5:00 PM ET, Sunday, October 2, 2011
Where: Miller Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Temperature:
Indoors
Umpires:
Home -
Alfonso Marquez, 1B -
Joe West, 2B -
Bruce Dreckman, 3B -
Jeff Kellogg, LF -
James Hoye, RF -
Ron Kulpa
Attendance:
44066
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Ryan Braun homered among three hits and drove in three as the Milwaukee Brewers took a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-five National League Division Series with a 9-4 victory over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
Nyjer Morgan drove in two and Corey Hart scored a pair of runs and added an RBI for the Brewers, who send Shaun Marcum to the mound with a chance to close out the series at Chase Field on Tuesday.
Milwaukee took control with a five-run rally in the sixth. Starter Daniel Hudson (0-1) was removed after yielding a one-out double to Jerry Hairston Jr. and replaced with righthander Brad Ziegler.
Ziegler balked Hairston to third and walked Yuniesky Betancourt before committing a throwing error on Jonathan Lucroy’s safety squeeze attempt and allowing the go-ahead run to score. Instead of going for the easy out at first, Ziegler attempted a backhand toss to the catcher that got away.
An intentional walk and three straight RBI singles by Hart, Morgan and Braun pushed the lead.
Ziegler was removed without retiring a batter.
Zack Greinke working on three days’ rest, wasn’t at his sharpest but did manage to strikeout seven in five innings. Takashi Saito (1-0) earned the win in relief.
Justin Upton, Chris Young and Paul Goldschmidt homered for the Diamondbacks.
Top Game Performances
Team Stats Summary
| Team |
Hits |
HR |
TB |
Avg |
LOB |
K |
RBI |
BB |
SB |
Errors |
| Arizona
|
10 |
3 |
21 |
.278 |
21 |
13 |
4 |
5 |
1 |
1 |
| Milwaukee
|
13 |
1 |
20 |
.361 |
9 |
8 |
9 |
2 |
0 |
1 |