Oct. 17, 2011
Former University of Miami Hurricanes Ryan Braun and Jon Jay went head-to-head with the Milwaukee Brewers (Braun) and St. Louis Cardinals (Jay) for the NLCS pennant. Jay and the Cards took down the Brewers in six games. Braun finished the series batting .333 with six RBI, while Jay ended with a .240 average and on-base percentage of .321. The Cards will now play the Texas Rangers in the World Series.
HurricaneSports.com will follow the action throughout the NLCS, as well as the World Series.
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Game 1 Recap: Two pitches. Two swings.
That’s how quickly Ryan Braun and Prince Fielder can change momentum.
Braun and Fielder have formed one of the top game-changing duos in the major leagues for the Milwaukee Brewers for some time now, but this was lightning-fast, even for them.
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Game 2 Recap: About an hour before Monday’s first pitch, Cardinals manager Tony La Russa literally drew a line in the Miller Park sand to illustrate Albert Pujols’ issues this season against the Milwaukee Brewers.
La Russa actually drew two lines: one representing home plate’s inside corner, the other about three inches further inside. Tracing his fungo along the imaginary plate’s edge, La Russa insisted Pujols could handle anything there and exact “damage.” Tracing a second line, La Russa described a zone of frustration for the three-time NL most valuable player, who endured four frustrating regular-season series and a difficult Sunday against the Brewers.
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Game 3 Recap: A five-inning start once represented a death sentence to the Cardinals. Wednesday night it offered an opportunity for a once-reviled bullpen to flaunt its transformation.
Thanks to four relievers, including one rookie and one newcomer, the Cardinals shaped a four-run first inning and an abbreviated start by Chris Carpenter into a 4-3 win over the Milwaukee Brewers in Game 3 of the NL championship series. What appeared unthinkable in April has become October’s reality: A reconfigured bullpen has become a compelling force for good.
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Game 4 Recap: A three-inning window closed on the Cardinals on Thursday night, slamming their fingers on a 2-0 lead that failed to last because of another in a string of abbreviated starts and an empty performance in run-scoring situations.
The Milwaukee Brewers didn’t win the NL championship series at Busch Stadium, but they sure made it more complicated with a 4-2 win that tied the best-of-seven pairing at two games apiece and assured its weekend return to Miller Park.
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Game 5 Recap: The fifth hitter of the fifth inning of the fifth game brought the Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers to the pivot point of a close-as-kin series. Two teams that had evenly divided 22 games scrambled to decide which way Friday night would cut.
With the Cardinals leading by three runs, manager Tony La Russa came to the mound for the ball, which starting pitcher Jaime Garcia held out like a dirty diaper.
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Game 6 Recap: The Cardinals fulfilled postseason etiquette Sunday night. Last to arrive, they will be the last National League club to leave.
Working a unique formula to near perfection, a team that gained entry to the playoffs on the season’s final day unseated the NL Central champion Milwaukee Brewers from the NL championship series with a blemished but memorable 12-6 win in Game 6. The Cardinals received two innings from their starting pitcher but never trailed. They produced three early home runs, then benefited from the Brewers’ slipshod middle-inning defense.
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Game 1 Recap: Returning to the first-base on-deck circle after his 120-yard jog, Milwaukee Brewers first baseman Prince Fielder threw his traditional celebratory right cross that Ryan Braun easily ducked. If the screw-top roof had covered Miller Park, the 43,613 packing the place might’ve blown it off.
A game the Cardinals twice led and briefly controlled went horribly wrong Sunday afternoon during Game 1 of the NL championship series.
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Game 2 Recap: The St. Louis Cardinals didn’t merely end the Milwaukee Brewers’ aura of invincibility at home in the postseason.
They obliterated it.
With Brewers right-hander Shaun Marcum having yet another rocky start and Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols going on an extra-base binge, St. Louis roared to a 12-3 decision Monday night in Game 2 of the National League Championship Series at Miller Park.
Click here for the full article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Game 3 Recap: It wasn’t easy for the Milwaukee Brewers to reconcile the fact that they couldn’t take advantage of St. Louis ace Chris Carpenter on a night when he showed up without his “A” game.
Or his “B” game, for that matter.
Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo proved more vulnerable, at least in the first inning when the Cardinals scored all of their runs and later used a stellar bullpen effort to hold on for a 4-3 victory in Game 3 of the National League Championship Series at Busch Stadium on Wednesday night.
Click here for the full article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Game 4 Recap: Suffice it to say that Randy Wolf took it very hard when he was shelled by the Arizona Diamondbacks in Game 4 of the National League Division Series in Phoenix.
Game 4 of the National League Championship Series went much better, to say the least. With Wolf pitching seven strong innings, the Brewers came from behind Thursday night to top St. Louis, 4-2, at Busch Stadium and even the series at two games apiece.
Click here for the full article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
Game 5 Recap: Over the course of a 162-game season, a team can overcome a substandard defense with quality pitching and enough timely hits.
In the crucible of a tie-breaking Game 5 of a postseason series, however, a horrid defensive showing can put a team on the brink of extinction.
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Game 6 Recap: As uplifting as the 2011 season was in general for the Milwaukee Brewers, it’s going to be a long winter as they ponder the two stinkers they played to fall short of their ultimate goal.
After tying the National League Championship Series in Game 4 with a crisply played 4-2 victory in St. Louis, the Brewers took a colossal pratfall on the national stage. All hopes of bouncing back from a 7-1 clunker in Game 5 were quickly erased when Shaun Marcum – manager Ron Roenicke’s controversial choice to start Game 6 – put the Brewers in a huge hole by allowing four first-inning runs Sunday night.
Click here for the full article from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel