Brewers (4) @ Diamondbacks (3) 7/2 -- Tastes Great, Less Filling

Tastes Great:

Seth McClung--Didn't have his best stuff, and gave up a lot of hard hit balls.  But battled through 5 1/3 innings.  Got helped out by some good defense and some bad baserunning by the D-Backs.  These are the kinds of games that starters have to grind through sometimes.

JJ Hardy--Two more hits and his hitting streak has reached 13 games.

Mike Cameron--Had really been struggling lately, but came through big time in this game.  Drove in the tying run in the 7th and the winning run in the 9th.

Rickie Weeks--Had missed the last couple games due to food poisoning, but came in and hit a pinch hit home run to put the Brewers up.  Hopefully this jump-starts his season once again.

Late inning offense--After going over a week without scoring a run after the 6th inning or off a reliever, the Brewers scored a run in each of the last 4 innings in tonight's game.

Less Filling:

David Riske--Just seems to make a mistake every time out and it gets hit hard.

Offensive patience--Where was it?  The Brewers hitters saw only 125 pitches in 9 innings (an average of only 13 per inning) while the D-Backs saw 156 pitches.

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