Game Recap #22 Arizona Diamondbacks @ Milwaukee Brewers

The Milwaukee Brewers were an American League team until 1997, when they transferred over to the National League to accommodate the arrival of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay (then Devil) Rays. This was done to get the leagues to have an even number of teams so as to avoid year-round interleague play. Even though this patch up is being undone starting in 2013, it brings a little something special to a game like tonight when the Brewers host the Arizona Diamondbacks. Tonight also saw a couple of young pitchers take the mound. Wade Miley had the honors for Arizona, while Michael Fiers pitcher for Milwaukee. Both pitchers stayed strongly in control until Miley gave up a triple to Corey Hart, who then scored on a wild pitch. Milwaukee kept on Miley with a Ryan Braun solo home run in the third inning. The Brewers did excessive damage in the fourth inning, as both Hart and Rickie Weeks singled before scoring on a three-run home run by Cody Ransom, a former Diamondback. Martin Maldonado followed up with a single and was moved to second base on a Fiers sacrifice, before a Carlos Gomez triple forced him in. Gomez then scored when the next batter, Braun, hit a two-run home run, his second long ball tonight. Brad Ziegler then relieved Miley to close out the inning. Miley had been doing well this season before the performance tonight that read as 3 2/3 innings, allowing eight hits and a walk to produce eight runs, all earned, alongside two strikeouts. It was the reliever Ziegler who surrendered the next run, as Weeks singled his way aboard and scored on a Ransom single. Craig Breslow took over for the Diamondbacks in the sixth inning, and he gave up a Gomez solo home run. Fiers was done after six innings of two-hit and three-walk baseball, striking out ten for an all-around nice night on the hill. He passed the ball to Manny Parra, who shut down Arizona in the seventh inning, as did Breslow on the Brewers half of the inning. Arizona got on the board in the eighth inning as Tim Dillard allowed singles to Stephen Drew and the cyclist Aaron Hill, which allowed a fielder's choice from pinch-hitter Gerardo Parra to be good enough to get Drew home. Parra came on in relief of Justin Upton, who had the only stolen base tonight in the third inning. The Diamondbacks made a good showing in the ninth as well, with Miguel Montero going yard for a solo home run, which made it 10-2 at the end of the game when Dillard worked out of his final jam. Fiers did walk away with the win, while Miley was subjected to the loss.