This is just getting ridiculous.  CC Sabathia earned his second straight complete game victory Friday, striking out 10 Giants and yielding only four hits to them.  Milwaukee scored first in the third inning when Sabathia doubled and scored later off a J.J. Hardy groundout.  In the fourth, Russell Branyan doubled to lead off the inning and scored when second basemen Rickie Weeks delivered a clutch single with two outs.  Up 3-0 in the seventh (following a Hardy RBI double), Milwaukee expanded their lead, when Prince Fielder hit an opposite field, three run shot to double his club’s lead.  In the ninth, Mike Cameron hit Milwaukee’s second three run homer to put the game well out of reach.  San Francisco’s only run came off of an Aaron Rowand round-tripper.

My Take:

What a way to start off the “second half” of 2008.  The Chicago Cubs fell to Houston 2-1, putting the Brewers four games back.  Sabathia is proving himself to be a fantastic acquisition to Milwaukee.  He is now 3-0 with 24 strikeouts and 2 complete game victories in three starts.  Talk is now brewing of G.M. Doug Melvin attempting to sign Oakland’s brilliant young relief pitcher Huston Street, and should this move be made, the Brewers would solve the eighth inning dilemma that has plagued them so often this season.