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Great Moments in the Brewers-Padres rivalry
2007-09-27 09:09
by Bob Timmermann

Wild card leader San Diego is facing the NL Central's second place team, Milwaukee, in the Cream City for the final four games of the season.

Since the first full season of three-division play, this is the first time the Padres have been the odd team out in the NL West at the end of the year and forced to play outside of the division. This honor tends to go to Arizona (finishing off a series in Pittsburgh today) or Colorado. San Diego has not played a game in Milwaukee since June of 2006.

Since the two teams first played in 1998 and including the three games they played this year (a Padres sweep in San Diego), San Diego leads the all-time series by a 39-28 margin. The Brewers do have a winning record in Milwaukee in this series, but by just a 17-16 margin.

The games they have played before will likely not be long remembered. This game on May 31, 2003 may make you rub your eyes when you see who the winning and losing pitchers were.

There have been just three players whose major league careers have seen them play just for Milwaukee and San Diego and no one else: Brandon Kolb, Jimmy Osting, and Santiago Perez.

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2007-09-27 09:34:36
1.   Sam DC
Fine sponsor for that winning pitcher's B-Ref page, though.
2007-09-27 09:41:53
2.   Josh Wilker
Sixto Lezcano and Rollie Fingers should throw out the first pitch at one of these games.
2007-09-27 09:43:53
3.   Bob Timmermann
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Are you happy that all the 1/2 games have been removed from the standings now?
2007-09-27 10:11:19
4.   110phil
I like "Mound City" much better than "Cream City."
2007-09-27 10:32:27
5.   Bob Timmermann
The "Cream City" is one of the most easily navigable cities in America. It's all a grid and the freeways are called the North-South and East-West.

There are two smaller ones called "Airport" and "Miller Park."

I'll let you guess where they go to.

2007-09-27 11:36:23
6.   Sam DC
3 I am.

I was a little hurt you didn't mention it til now.

2007-09-27 11:37:21
7.   Bob Timmermann
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The 1/2 games weren't eliminated until really late last night.

You were asleep.

2007-09-27 11:52:51
8.   dzzrtRatt
So, given the matchups, it is still very possible for Colorado to win the west, Philly (or the Mets) to win the WC, and for both Arizona and San Diego to be on the outside looking in.

That's what I want. If we have to suffer, Arizona and San Diego have to suffer too.

I'm not a Cubs fan, so if this gets the Brewers into the playoffs, that's good too.

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