The 65-68 Milwaukee Brewers are on the upswing and the 59-75 Miami Marlins well aren't. Miami was disgraced again at home by the 64-70 New York Mets on Monday who plopped in five first-inning runs to win 5-1. The Marlins just struck on Justin Ruggiano's RBI-double driving in Rob Brantly.
Milwaukee outscored the 70-63 Pittsburgh Pirates 12-8 to wrap up a weekend sweep at Miller Park on Sunday. The Brewers scored 11 of their 12 runs during the first four innings on Ryan Braun's, Jeff Bianchi's, Rickie Weeks', Carlos Gomez's and 14-8 with a 3.79 ERA Yovani Gallardo's home runs along with Alexei Ramirez's RBI-single. Milwaukee managed another run during the bottom of the sixth on another Ramirez RBI-single.
The Brewers go with 8-6 Mike Fiers and a 2.85 ERA to keep their unlikely resurgence going. While it's doubtful Milwaukee will make the playoffs Fiers, who has won his last two road starts shielding four runs during 14 innings, will try to keep the excellent away appearances going in Miami on Monday. At Miller on July 5 Fiers was great giving up two runs during 7.1 innings, but took a 4-0 loss to the Marlins who are 7-for-19 with a Logan Morrison RBI all-time against him. As well Fiers is 4-2 on the road.
10-12 Ricky Nolasco with a 4.78 ERA gets the baseball next for Miami looking for his third straight home win. The 71-63 Los Angeles Dodgers and 81-52 Washington Nationals worked in two runs during 14 innings to fall 7-3 and 9-0 to Nolasco who was assaulted by the 74-59 Atlanta Braves and Washington at Marlins Park for 10 runs during 10.2 innings to take two July losses. Prior at home Nolasco was 3-4 wielding nine runs during 18.1 innings in wins and 16 runs, 15 earned, during 23.2 innings. The Brewers are 30-for-85 with 14 RBIs. Despite Miami's recent success with Nolasco on the mound I have to take Milwaukee here.
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