Happy Mother's Day, Vergie Hall!

Bill Hall was determined to end Sunday's game against the Mets one way or another. He tried to do it with the sac bunt in the 8th that gave the Brewers the lead. He made an amazing throw to Prince Fielder in the top of the 9th, but Fielder couldn't hold on to it, and the Mets tied it up again. By the bottom of the 10th, Billy had had enough. Using his pink bat in honor of his mother, Vergie, and despite the three strikeouts he had already racked up with it, Bill drilled a two-out, walk-off home run to left field, giving the Brewers a 6-5 win over the Mets, as well as the win for the series.

It seemed Bill knew that ball was gone from the moment he hit it. He threw his arm up, flipped away his pink bat, and trotted around the bases with that arm in the air. It was almost as if Bill was saying "take that" to Chad Bradford, who had not given up a homer this season. (Photo of Bill Hall taken by Morry Gash, AP) What a great gift for Vergie for Mother's Day, and a fitting end to her trip to Milwaukee. To say Bill Hall has been hot lately is an understatement, and again I send out desperate pleas to Doug Melvin. Multi-year contract! For pete's sake, multi-year contract!!

Derrick Turnbow had another rough outing, blowing his first save of the season. Well, like I said yesterday, he's not perfect. It was bound to happen sooner or later. The good news is that we ended up winning, and none of our pitchers had to take a loss. Now Derrick can breathe a sigh of relief that the first blown save, and first loss, are behind him, and he can go out and rack up another 12 saves in a row.

Damian Miller stayed red-hot yesterday, racking up two hits, including a three-run homer in the 2nd. Damian is on a ten game hitting streak, and currently has a batting average of .337 after 98 plate appearances. Lucky for the Crew and fans that Chad Moeller was down with the flu. Chad usually catches day games that follow night games to give Miller some time off. Miller says, though, that he feels better without the days off. It would certainly seem so.

Mets' starter Pedro Martinez had some nice words to say about the Brewers yesterday. "Every mistake I make is a home run, it's not a double," Martinez said. "Those guys must be good. Talk about being hot. Those guys are lucky, hot, they have it going offensively." Thanks, Pedro. Now you boys run along and beat the crap out of St. Louis, will ya?

Of course, not everyone had a great series this weekend, RICKIE!! Milwaukee is now not only second in the NL for errors, but also second in MLB. Mr. Weeks owns 12 of the 35 errors the Brewers have committed. He's now on pace for 51 errors for the season. That would beat Robin Yount's 1975 season total of 44. It's never a good thing to give teams extra outs, but when we're playing in one of, if not the toughest division in baseball, you can't give away outs and expect to contend for a playoff berth. JJ Hardy has been riding pine because he's been in a hitting slump. Why not let Rickie join him for a few games and keep Bill Hall's hot bat in the lineup?

My favorite southpaw takes the hill tomorrow night against the Cory Lidle and the rest of the Philadelphia Phillies. Lidle hasn't had a great season so far. He's currently 3-4 with an ERA of 5.12 after seven games and 38.2 innings. He's surrended only four homers and seven walks versus 38 strikeouts. Only four of his seven starts have been quality starts, however, as compared to our staff ace, Chris Capuano, who is eight for eight in quality starts. (and yes I know that technically Ben Sheets is our ace, but if Bill and Daron are calling Cappy our ace then I can too!)

Chris currently is 4-3, with an ERA of 2.83. He has given up four homers as well, with 13 walks, but this in addition to 49 punchouts over 54 innings. Maybe it's just me, but it looks like our guy might have an edge over their guy. We'll find out tomorrow night. I'll be there to cheer on my favorite pitcher, and I hope to see lots of you there as well. Until next time, go Brewers!