Once again the Milwaukee Brewers and Houston Astros played home run derby down at Minute Maid Park in Houston.  The two teams combined for seven more home runs as the Brewers hit four and the Astros hit three.  At the end of the game the Brewers were ahead on the scoreboard by the score of 9-6.

Mike Cameron (9th), Gabe Kapler (5th) , Prince Fielder (11) , and Corey Hart (10) all went deep for the Brewers.  Hart finished with three rbi in the game and then six other Brewers had one rbi.  Cameron, Kapler, Fielder, Ryan Braun, Russell Branyan, and Bill Hall all finished the game with one rbi.

Brewers starting pitcher Ben Sheets didn’t have the outing that he was hoping for even though he did throw seven innings.  Sheets gave up seven hits and three runs while giving up two home runs in the “Juice Box”.  Guillermo Mota pitched the seventh inning and gave up two more runs in the game when he came in after Sheet exited.  Salomon Torres pitched the ninth inning and also had some trouble as he gave up one run.

The Milwaukee Brewers had a bad inning in the seventh inning where the Los Angeles Dodgers hit three home runs and scored six runs to come back and beat the Brewers 7-2.  It was a bad loss for the Brewers because the Cubs continue to win at the top of the division.

Ben Sheets took the loss as he pitched 6 1/3 innings and gave up nine hits and six runs.  Sheets was cruising along until the seventh inning when everything came undone and he gave up three home runs and six runs.  Sheets is now 4-1 on the season.

Mitch Stetter gave up one run in relief as well for the Brewers.

Ryan Braun fresh off signing a new eight year contract had the only rbi for the Brewers.  Braun had a solo home run in the eighth inning.  J.J. Hardy grounded into a double play to score the other Brewers run.

The Brewers need to turn things around if they want to get back into contention.  They can’t keep losing while the Cubs and Cardinals keep on winning.

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The Milwaukee Brewers beat the Chicago Cubs 10-7 on Tuesday night as both offenses put quite a few runs on the scoreboard.  Mike Cameron made his debut of 2008 and had a two RBI for the Brewers as he got off to a fast start.

Cameron along with Prince Fielder and Bill Hall all had two RBI each.  Ryan Braun, J.J. Hardy, and Jason Kendall all had one RBI each as the Brewers pounded Cubs starter Jason Marquis and the Cubs bullpen in the game.

Ben Sheets made his return to the mound for the Brewers and picked up his fourth win of the season.  It wasn’t in typical Sheets fashion however as he was pretty wild and walked seven batters while only striking out two.  Eric Gagne did pick up the save in the ninth inning which was nice to see.

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