Major League Baseball
BOXSCORE | RECAP
Milwaukee 9, Arizona 4
When: 5:00 PM ET, Sunday, October 2, 2011
Where: Miller Park, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Alfonso Marquez, 1B - Joe West, 2B - Bruce Dreckman, 3B - Jeff Kellogg, LF - James Hoye, RF - Ron Kulpa
Attendance: 44066

Ryan Braun homered among three hits and drove in three as the Milwaukee Brewers took a commanding 2-0 lead in the best-of-five National League Division Series with a 9-4 victory over the visiting Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.

Nyjer Morgan drove in two and Corey Hart scored a pair of runs and added an RBI for the Brewers, who send Shaun Marcum to the mound with a chance to close out the series at Chase Field on Tuesday.

Milwaukee took control with a five-run rally in the sixth. Starter Daniel Hudson (0-1) was removed after yielding a one-out double to Jerry Hairston Jr. and replaced with righthander Brad Ziegler.

Ziegler balked Hairston to third and walked Yuniesky Betancourt before committing a throwing error on Jonathan Lucroy’s safety squeeze attempt and allowing the go-ahead run to score. Instead of going for the easy out at first, Ziegler attempted a backhand toss to the catcher that got away.

An intentional walk and three straight RBI singles by Hart, Morgan and Braun pushed the lead.

Ziegler was removed without retiring a batter.

Zack Greinke working on three days’ rest, wasn’t at his sharpest but did manage to strikeout seven in five innings. Takashi Saito (1-0) earned the win in relief.

Justin Upton, Chris Young and Paul Goldschmidt homered for the Diamondbacks.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Arizona   Milwaukee
Daniel Hudson Player Zack Greinke
Loss W/L No Decision
5.1 IP 5.0
6 Strikeouts 7
9 Hits 8
8.44 ERA 7.20
Hitting
Arizona   Milwaukee
Aaron Hill Player Ryan Braun
3 Hits 3
0 RBI 3
0 HR 1
3 TB 7
1.000 Avg .750
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Arizona 10 3 21 .278 21 13 4 5 1 1
Milwaukee 13 1 20 .361 9 8 9 2 0 1