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MILWAUKEE -- That Christian Yelich traveled with the Brewers for a road trip that begins Friday night at Washington says less about the progress he’s making in his comeback from a groin injury, and more about what it’s like for a ballplayer to stay home.

MILWAUKEE -- Brandon Woodruff showed no outward signs of discomfort. But the radar gun indicated that something was wrong. The Brewers spent the early innings of Thursday’s 13-1 win over the D-backs in scramble mode after Woodruff, the veteran right-hander with a long injury history, exited after facing six hitters

MILWAUKEE -- While the pesky Brewers used small ball to score big in Tuesday’s 13-2 win over the D-backs at American Family Field, two of their power threats were taking significant steps toward returning to the lineup. Left fielder Jackson Chourio and first baseman Andrew Vaughn, each sidelined by fractured

MILWAUKEE -- Chad Patrick ducked into the small bathroom off the Brewers’ dugout after the first inning on Tuesday and got sick. That happens all the time, said the 27-year-old right-hander, often multiple times during his starts. It’s become a normal part of his game days. But what happened next

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MILWAUKEE -- The last time the Brewers went this many games without hitting a home run, Bill Clinton was president, Phil Garner was manager and Miller Park was a construction site. But they didn’t need a homer to bust out of a funk on Sunday afternoon. Kyle Harrison’s strikeout-fueled pitching

MILWAUKEE -- Quinn Priester’s second rehab start with Triple-A Nashville looked better in the box score than the first -- but the strike zone remains elusive. Priester, who is on the injured list recovering from thoracic outlet syndrome, didn’t allow a hit or a run and struck out a pair

MILWAUKEE – When a pitcher has lit up the radar gun at 104.3 mph in a postseason game, a 102.7 mph fastball in April might seem relatively pedestrian. But for Jacob Misiorowski, it was something never before recorded by a starting pitcher. “It felt the same as any other start,”

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MILWAUKEE -- Before this week, only one team had faced both reigning Cy Young Award winners in back-to-back games. No team had ever done it on back-to-back days. But as the Brewers stared down Tarik Skubal and Paul Skenes, even as manager Pat Murphy wrote lineup cards missing three of

MILWAUKEE -- Brewers first baseman Andrew Vaughn took batting practice on the field prior to Friday night's 6-0 loss to the Pirates for the first time since undergoing surgery to remove a fractured hamate bone in his left hand on March 30. Vaughn has another follow-up with his surgeon on

DETROIT -- Former All-Star Lance Berkman never played for the Brewers, never coached the Brewers and hasn’t been seen around the Brewers since visiting Milwaukee with the Rangers in 2013. And yet, Berkman played an unwitting role in developing the Brewers’ offensive identity on days like Thursday afternoon. A getaway

DETROIT -- Brewers shortstop prospect Luis Peña (Brewers' No. 2 prospect, No. 21 overall, per MLB Pipeline) was said to be “fine” on Thursday morning after being hospitalized Wednesday night in Fort Wayne, Ind., where he passed out in the dugout during the bottom of the eighth inning of High-A

DETROIT -- Brewers infielder David Hamilton was unaware that he was part of history last season with the Red Sox. And it wasn’t until Wednesday afternoon that he realized he has a chance to do it again.

DETROIT -- A couple of hours after Brewers manager Pat Murphy laid out a tentative plan for Quinn Priester's rehab assignment with Triple-A Nashville that could get the right-hander back to Milwaukee’s rotation as soon as the second week of May, Priester’s debut outing did not go to plan. Priester,

DETROIT -- With three of their best hitters on the injured list, the Brewers are surviving the best way they know how. When an opponent gives an inch, take a mile.

DETROIT -- Jackson Chourio sat at his locker at Comerica Park on Tuesday, wearing a red-light therapy glove over his left hand. He’s hoping to permanently trade that accessory for batting gloves in the very near future. “I actually don’t need it anymore,” Chourio said. “But I figured it can’t

MILWAUKEE -- Former Brewers slugger Ryan Braun will become the latest inductee to the Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame with ties to pro baseball during an induction ceremony in July. The Wisconsin Athletic Hall of Fame was established in 1951 to honor outstanding sports figures who are from Wisconsin or

MILWAUKEE -- Pat Murphy had MLB Network on the TV in his office on Thursday morning at American Family Field, like it always is, and saw a segment about the Cardinals’ embrace of small ball. If he’d looked on his iPad, he might have seen some of the recent stories

MILWAUKEE – Brewers manager Pat Murphy wasn’t ready to say Wednesday afternoon what, if anything, he’ll do differently in the ninth inning while struggling closer Trevor Megill tries to get on track. But Murphy stood by everything he said the night before, in the wake of a particularly wrenching loss.

MILWAUKEE – The physics of the thing were a little hard to figure. Sal Frelick, the leadoff man of the moment for an injury-depleted Brewers team badly needing a win, beat a baseball into the ground right in front of home plate in the eighth inning when it seemed like

MILWAUKEE – For the Puissants of New Franken, Wis., art runs in the family. Luxemburg-Casco Intermediate School fifth grader Callie Puissant threw a ceremonial first pitch prior to Wednesday’s Brewers-Blue Jays game at American Family Field after winning the Brewers’ Jackie Robinson Design Contest – just like her older brother,

MILWAUKEE -- When Brewers athletic trainer Brad Epstein, pitching coach Chris Hook and manager Pat Murphy all approached Jacob Misiorowski on the mound in the fifth inning on Tuesday night, it wasn’t to check on an injury. It was to see how Misiorowski was faring in terms of keeping his

MILWAUKEE -- The Brewers expect Christian Yelich to be sidelined at least a month by his left groin injury, and Jackson Chourio and Andrew Vaughn will need at least a couple more weeks to recover from broken bones in their left hands.