Holy Crap, Damian Miller!

Going into last Wednesday's game, Damian Miller had 0 HRs and 8 RBIs on the season.

On Wednesday, on LaCrosse Day (the city along the Mississippi River in northwest Wisconsin where he's from) Damian hit a walk-off home run to win the game. In that game he went 3-5 with 4 RBIs.

Tonight, Damian hit a grand slam to top off the 6-run 7th inning for the Brewers.
(though why the bases were loaded still baffles me, but we'll get back to that)

In tonight's game Damian was 4-5 with 7 RBIs. The 7 RBIs tied him for most in one game by a Brewer.

He came to bat in the 9th and Bill Hall should have been on 3rd and would have scored on Damian's single, giving Damian a franchise record. Slo-mo replays show that Billy was clearly safe at second base, not called out as the umpire did. Geoff Jenkins hit a fly to right center that would have put Bill on 3rd, ripe for Damian.

Instead, Damian gets a share of the record.

In two games, Damian went 7-10 and had 11 RBIs and has 3 HR's in the last 6 days (in just two games). He hit a two-run homer in the 4th tonight that was his 2nd HR in his last 3 at bats.

The Slam was Miller's 6th career. It was all the Brewers 6th on the season, giving them sole lead in the majors.

Damian has hit 86 HRs in his career with 6 grand slams. That's the 3rd highest ratio of all time.


In non-Damian news, as of Saturday morning, the crew was 12-3 since being no hit and were averaging 6.7 runs a game.

Corey Hart extended his hit streak to 18 games tonight. During that streak he is hitting .357 with 4 doubles, 7 HRs and 18 RBIs.

I was actually going to highlight Ryan Braun today, who in the month he's been in the majors has already made himself a major case for Rookie of the Year. But I'll leave that for another day and let Damian bask in the glory.

(Oh yeah, and about those bases loaded. Why, why, why do you walk Geoff Jenkins to load the bases to get to Damian Miller? At this point in the game Miller's 2-3 with a 2 run HR. Jenkins - well he's Geoff Jenkins. There's two guys on and two outs. Geoff's swinging for the fences and goes down in three pitches. He's as harmless as a baby here. But the manager decides to walk Jenkins, loading the bases for the Brewers' hottest hitter over the past week. I absolutely do not understand the logic here and I'd kill to have it explained to me. Get me a line to the Pirates' manager)