Milwaukee Brewers News

Ron Washington took a seat in the home dugout at Texas’ stadium for the first time Saturday and enjoyed the view. “It’s a beautiful ballpark,” he said. A few hours later, his Rangers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 4-3 on Nelson Cruz’s one-out homer in the bottom of the ninth inning. Robinson Tejeda yielded one hit [...]

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Geoff Jenkins doubled in the first and sixth innings to drive in three runs as the Milwaukee Brewers ended their home exhibition schedule Thursday with a 4-2 victory over a Los Angeles Angels squad of mostly minor leaguers. Most of the Angels’ major leaguers, and manager Mike Scioscia and his coaching staff were in Los [...]

With the first pitch ready to be thrown, we take a look at who will shine and who will flop in 2007.

Russ Ortiz will be San Francisco’s fifth starter, just as the Giants have intended since signing the right-hander in January for a second stint with the club. Not that there ever was much doubt he would win the job this spring and put his nightmare 2006 season in the past. “He’s doing great,” pitching coach [...]

Greg Maddux looked sharp in his last spring training start and the San Diego Padres put on quite the power display to back him. Maddux had his longest outing of the spring, giving up two runs and striking out five in six innings, and San Diego banged out a spring-high 25 hits in a [...]

Brewers ace Ben Sheets will pitch the season opener for the fifth time in his career. The Brewers start April 2 against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Sheets started four openers in a row before beginning last season on the disabled list and missing half the season with shoulder problems. He finished last year 6-7 with [...]

Albert Pujols got the most of his first home run of the spring and Barry Bonds put in one last Cactus League game before heading north for the start of the regular season. And that was nothing compared to the show put on by Greg Maddux and the San Diego Padres. Maddux had his [...]

The Milwaukee Brewers couldn’t do anything with a strong breeze blowing out of the ballpark Tuesday. Joe Kennedy struck out nine in five innings and the Brewers fanned 14 times in an 8-3 loss to the Oakland Athletics. “It was a lot of strikeouts, that’s for sure,” Milwaukee manager Ned Yost said. Kennedy had a [...]