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The Brewers head to the motor city for what was slated as a 5-game series, with 2, that's right, 2 doubleheaders. (As it turned out, the second double-header became a single game when the night-cap was rained out.)

The Brewers enter the series leading the 4th place Falcons by 3 1/2 games. By the end of the series the Falcons are 7 1/2 games behind the Brewers who move into a tie with 2nd place San Francisco.

The opening game of the Friday doubleheader goes to Denver 6-3. Pat Rondeau (.236/.243/.311) has by far this best game of the season at the plate, going 4 for 5 and scoring 3 runs from the lead-off slot. Andrew Kennedy (.339/.364/.464) contributes a 2 for 4 game from the 2-hole. Will Smart pitches 6 1/3rd, giving up 3 runs on 7 hits and gets the victory, improving to 3-0 with a 2.52 ERA. Eric Singer pitches the last 2 innings for his 3rd save and lowers his ERA to 1.23.

The Brewers get a shutout victory in the night-cap, winning 2-0 behind Cheol-han Lee, who tosses his best game of the season, getting the complete game 2-hit shutout. He strikes out 5 and doesn't walk a single batter. Bobby Erbakan (.232/.288/.387) hits his 5th homer of the year in the 5th inning and that would prove to be gravy as the Brewers 2nd inning run would have sufficed with the way Lee was dealing. Lee improves to 4-4 with a 3.03 ERA.

The Brewers win Saturday's game 6-3. Adam Getchell gets just his 4th start of the season and works 6 innings, giving up 3 runs on 8 hits. But he also drives in a run with a double in the 4th inning and earns the victory, improving to 1-1 with a 3.51 ERA. Chad Brown (.308/.343/.374), having a fine season at the plate, hits a rare homerun, his 2nd of the season and goes 2 for 4 with 2 runs scored. Eric Singer gets his 4th save of the season (1.19 ERA.)

On Sunday, the Brewers once again score 6 runs, this time in support of Harry Lyerly, who allows 2 runs on 6 hits in 7 innings pitched. Lyerly strikes out 7 and walks just 1, though he does allow a 7th inning solo HR, which gives him a league leading 15 HRA. Still, he picks up the win as the Brewers prevail 6-2, and Lyerly improves to 6-4 with a 3.24 ERA. Bobby Erbakan (.240/.290/.407), perhaps starting to show some of his latent power potential, hit another solo shot, giving up 6 HR's for the season now. Chad Brown (.312/.346/.382) stays hot with a 2 for 4 day and he hits his 4th double of the season.

As mentioned above, the scheduled second game for Sunday was postponed due to bad weather.

With the 4-game series sweep the Brewers have now won 6 straight and 10 of their last 11 games.

Up next is a 3-game series in San Francisco against the Velocity, with whom the Brewers now share 2nd place.