Major League Baseball
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Milwaukee 8, Miami 5
When: 7:10 PM ET, Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Where: Marlins Ballpark, Miami, Florida
Temperature: Indoors
Umpires: Home - Angel Hernandez, 1B - Ed Hickox, 2B - Chris Conroy, 3B - Mark Carlson
Attendance: 22288

Brewers 8, Marlins 5: Rickie Weeks belted two two-run homers and Corey Hart also had four RBIs as visiting Milwaukee won for the 13th time in 16 games.

Wily Peralta (1-0) pitched into the seventh inning in his first major-league start and second big-league appearance. He was charged with three runs and five hits in six-plus innings.

Weeks and Hart both hit two-run homers in the seventh to give the Brewers a five-run edge. After Miami battled back within one run, Hart lined a two-run double down the left-field line in the ninth to give Milwaukee a cushion.

John Axford got the final three outs for his 25th save in 33 opportunities.

Weeks clubbed a two-run homer in the third off Marlins starter Nathan Eovaldi (4-11) to give the Brewers a 2-0 lead.

After Miami got on the board in the fifth on John Buck’s run-scoring single, Weeks connected off reliever Tom Koehler with a shot to left in the seventh for his sixth career multi-homer contest.

Hart belted his homer later in the seventh to give Milwaukee a 6-1 edge but the Marlins responded with four runs in the bottom of the inning. Greg Dobbs, Bryan Peterson and Donovan Solano hit back-to-back-to-back run-scoring singles and Miami moved within a run on a sacrifice fly by Jose Reyes.

Eovaldi allowed two runs and six hits in five innings for Miami, which has lost six of seven games.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Weeks is 15-for-31 (.484) during a seven-game hitting streak. … Buck had two hits to raise his average to .201, marking the first time he has been above .200 since May 15. … Aoki went 1-for-4 to extend his hitting streak to nine games. … Marlins OF Logan Morrison underwent surgery to repair a torn patellar tendon in his right knee.
Top Game Performances
Starting Pitchers
Milwaukee   Miami
Wily Peralta Player Nathan Eovaldi
Win W/L Loss
6.0 IP 5.0
3 Strikeouts 4
5 Hits 6
4.50 ERA 3.60
Hitting
Milwaukee   Miami
Aramis Ramirez Player John Buck
2 Hits 2
0 RBI 1
0 HR 0
2 TB 2
.667 Avg .500
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Hits HR TB Avg LOB K RBI BB SB Errors
Milwaukee 10 3 21 .263 14 8 8 3 0 0
Miami 8 0 9 .258 11 4 5 5 0 1