BREWERS BELT 5 HRS IN ‘W’ OVER GIANTS

Ramirez Homers Twice; 7^th in Last 20 Games

MILWAUKEE, Aug. 6 (AP) – Aramis Ramirez belted two of his team’s five home runs as the Milwaukee Brewers defeated the San Francisco Giants 12-7 at Miller Park.  Ramirez, who went homerless over his first 68 games of the season, breaking the drought on July 11, has now homered seven times in the 20 contests.  The five long balls hit by the Brewers represent the high mark for the club in a single game thus far this season.

Milwaukee roared out to a seemingly impregnable seven-run lead in the first two innings, knocking out Giants starter Ryan Vogelsong in the process.  Carlos Gomez led off the bottom of the first with a double and, one out later, Ryan Braun’s two-bagger made it 1-0.  After Ramirez grounded to third, Jonathan Lucroy drew a walk from Vogelsong and Scooter Gennett belted a three-run shot into the visitors bullpen in right field for a 4-0 lead.

In the bottom of the second, Carlos Gomez’s solo home run with one out made it 5-0.  Gerardo Parra singled and stole second, then advanced to third on Braun’s deep fly to center.  Ramirez followed by crushing a Vogelsong fastball into the lower seats in left to make it 7-0.

The Giants picked up a couple of runs in the third, the first when Pablo Sandoval singled home Hunter Pence and the second when Brewers starter Yovani Gallardo uncorked a wild pitch, allowing Buster Posey to score.

It was still 7-2 in the fourth inning when Ramirez clobbered his second home run of the game, a blast that landed well beyond the wall in dead center field, to increase the lead to six runs.

And in the bottom of the fifth, Gallardo helped himself, by driving a two-run double into the right-center field gap, giving Milwaukee a commanding 10-2 lead.

But the Giants didn’t quit and erupted for five runs in the top of the sixth.  Michael Morse led off the frame with a base hit and advanced to second on another Gallardo wild pitch.  Seemingly flustered, Gallardo walked Gregor Blanco on four pitches and was removed from the game in favor of Marco Estrada.  Brandon Crawford greeted Estrada with a double to right-center, scoring Morse and advancing Blanco to third.  One out later, Pence dropped a single into left, scoring Blanco and moving Crawford to third.  Joe Panik then belted a home run, just inside the right field foul pole, pulling San Francisco to within three runs.

It was as close as the Giants would get as the Brewers finally put the game to bed with two runs in the seventh.  Gennett led off with a double and advanced to third on Martin Maldonado’s ground out.  Jean Segura popped out but Ricky Weeks drove a 3-2 offering from Javier Lopez into the left field seats to cap the scoring with Milwaukee on top 12-7.

8/6/2014, SF14-Mil14, Miller Park

                       1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8  9     R  H  E   LOB DP

2014 Giants            0  0  2  0  0  5  0  0  0     7  8  0     6  1

2014 Brewers           4  3  0  1  2  0  2  0  x    12 16  1     5  1

Giants               AB  R  H BI   AVG    Brewers              AB  R  H BI   AVG

Pence             rf  5  2  2  1  .281    Gomez,C           cf  5  2  3  1  .268

Panik             2b  5  1  2  3  .228    Parra,G           lf  5  1  1  0  .253

Posey             c   4  1  0  0  .272    Braun             rf  5  1  2  1  .268

Sandoval          3b  4  0  1  1  .240    Ramirez,Ar        3b  5  2  2  3  .230

Belt              1b  3  0  0  0  .233    Lucroy            1b  4  1  1  0  .317

Morse             lf  3  1  1  0  .265    Gennett           2b  3  3  3  3  .313

Blanco,G          cf  3  1  1  0  .279    Maldonado         c   4  1  2  0  .162

Crawford,B        ss  4  1  1  1  .255    Segura            ss  4  0  0  0  .221

Vogelsong         p   0  0  0  0  .121    Gallardo          p   3  0  1  2  .171

 Petit,Y          p   1  0  0  0  .125     Estrada          p   0  0  0  0  .032

 Ishikawa         ph  1  0  0  0  .341     Weeks,R          ph  1  1  1  2  .258

 Affeldt          p   0  0  0  0  .000     Duke             p   0  0  0  0  .000

 Machi            p   1  0  0  0  .000     Jeffress         p   0  0  0  0  .000

 Lopez,J          p   0  0  0  0  .000                         39 12 16 12

 Arias            ph  1  0  0  0  .211

 Casilla,S        p   0  0  0  0  .000

                     35  7  8  6

Giants                           INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA

Vogelsong        L 7-9           1.2  9  7  7  1  0  46  29  3.85

Petit,Y                          1.1  0  0  0  0  4  13  12  2.59

Affeldt                          1.1  3  3  3  0  0  25  19  2.17

Machi                            1.2  1  0  0  0  0  13   8  1.29

Lopez,J                          1.0  3  2  2  0  0  27  18  3.81

Casilla,S                        1.0  0  0  0  0  0  11   7  0.65

                                 8.0 16 12 12  1  4 135  93

Brewers                          INN  H  R ER BB  K PCH STR   ERA

Gallardo         W 9-6           5.0  4  4  4  5  2 110  59  3.74

Estrada          H 2             2.0  3  3  3  0  4  36  26  4.46

Duke                             1.0  0  0  0  0  2  15  11  3.25

Jeffress                         1.0  1  0  0  0  0  10   6  3.65

                                 9.0  8  7  7  5  8 171 102

SF : Ishikawa batted for Petit,Y in the 4th

     Arias batted for Lopez,J in the 8th

Mil: Weeks,R batted for Estrada in the 7th

E-Ramirez,Ar. 2B-Crawford,B(20), Gomez,C(25), Braun(19), Gennett(32),

Maldonado(3), Gallardo(3). HR-Panik(1), Gomez,C(13), Ramirez,Ar 2(7),

Gennett(10), Weeks,R(6). RBI-Pence(49), Panik 3(8), Sandoval(41),

Crawford,B(39), Gomez,C(43), Braun(45), Ramirez,Ar 3(30), Gennett 3(49),

Gallardo 2(4), Weeks,R 2(23). SB-Parra,G(11). K-Pence, Posey, Sandoval, Belt,

Morse, Crawford,B, Ishikawa, Machi, Gomez,C, Maldonado, Segura, Gallardo.

BB-Posey, Sandoval, Belt, Morse, Blanco,G, Lucroy. HBP-Gennett. HB-Affeldt.

WP-Gallardo 3.

GWRBI: Braun

Temperature: 70, Wind: none.

Attendance: 34,821

Game Time: 3:05