The Denver Brewers end the week with a back-and-forth and extremely narrow victory over the Redbirds in St. Louis, with 3-time MGL MVP
Antonio Acuna (.292/.336/.486) getting what proved to be the game winning hit in the top of the 8th as part of a 2 for 5 game.
Middle infielder
Dustin Moore (.321/.365/.476), yet another newcomer to the team this year who has played very well, also went 2 for 5, scoring once and hitting his 7th triple of the season.
Val Guzman (.306/.389/.496) only had 1 hit in this one, but it was a 2-run double (32).
Guzman was capping off a great week which saw him named the MGL Player of the Week as he has been a big part of the current 11-game winning streak for the club.
In bittersweet news, 40-year old
Chris Pollack, in his second stint with Brewers having been signed to a minor league contract earlier this season and promoted when rosters expanded on September 1st, has announced that he will step away from the game at the end of this campaign.
Pollack is an unassuming good guy who early in his career mostly pitched as a starter, and with decent success (he had double-digit wins in his first six seasons, from 1965 through 1970) and still holds the single-season WPK record for lowest ERA for a qualified pitcher with his 1.54 in the 1968 season. He has mostly pitched out of bullpens since then (though he did start 20 games in 1980 with Baltimore but went 7-10 with a 5.91 ERA). His first stint with the Brewers was 13 games out of the bullpen in 1978 and it didn't go well, as his 7.00 ERA and 2.56 WHIP will attest (his BABIP was an insanely high .457), but this September he has given the Brewers 3 1/3rd innings of scoreless baseball. He will be missed.
