BREWERS WIN 9-8 OVER CINCY IN DRAMATIC FASHION
The Brewers pulled off one of the more thrilling victories in recent history tonight by scoring three in the bottom of the ninth to defeat the Reds 9-8 at Miller Park.

The Brewers trailed 8-6 going into the bottom of the ninth. Then the Reds had a classic meltdown. Speedy WES HELMS reached on an infield single and then advanced to second on a wild pitch by gas-can relief pitcher DANNY GRAVES. Helms then advanced to third on a throwing error by catcher Jason LaRue. With two outs CHAD MOELLER grounded to third baseman BRANDON LARSON who threw wildly to first allowing a run to score, making it 8-7 Reds. BILL HALL then came to the plate as a pinch-hitter and promptly sent the smallest crowd in Miller Park history home happy with a two-run walk-off jack to make it a 9-8 Brewers victory.

On the game the Reds made 5 errors. Brandon Larson and Jason LaRue made two errors each while D'Angelo Jiminez made one. The Reds also had one wild-pitch by Graves in the ninth. Graves blew his third save opportunity of the season.

The Crew had a strong day offensively highlighted by a few individual performances. As a team the Brewers had 11 hits and drew 6 walks. Chad Moeller became the first Brewer to hit for the cycle since PAUL MOLITOR in 1991. Moeller was 3 for his last 24 and was batting .200 at the start of tonight's game. JUNIOR SPIVEY continues to swing a hot bat as he went 1-3 with a homerun and two walks. KEITH GINTER got the start in rightfield tonight and was replaced by BRADY CLARK in a defensive substitution later in the game. It was nice to see NED YOST try to get Ginter some more at-bats. KG went 0-2 with two walks on the night.

DOUG DAVIS got the start and his line looked like this: 5 IP, 4 H, 3 R (all earned), 4 BB and 5 K. I know it is early but so far Davis has been walking far too many batters. He has walked 15 in 28 innings of work. The bullpen all struggled with the exception of JEFF BENNETT. BEN FORD looks like he'll be on one of the next buses back to Indianapolis after having another rough outing (2/3 IP, 3 H, 2 ER, 1 BB, 1 HRA). Both VICTOR SANTOS and LUIS VIZCAINO gave up one earned run in 1 2/3 IP with two walks. Jeff Bennett (1-0) picked up the win by throwing a perfect 1/3 of an inning. I cannot stress how perfect his 1/3 of an inning was.