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The Brewers are glad to see the month of June now in the rear-view mirror. Although they started off the month strong, they ended up losing 10 of the last 13 starting on June 18th, including two 5-game losing streaks. They redeemed themselves in the last two games of the month, winning a squeaker (6-5) at Brooklyn in the nightcap of a Sunday doubleheader to stop their second 5-game losing streak of the month, and then getting an easy 10-3 victory of the Velocity in San Francisco, particularly behind the big bat of Ruben Souffront, who came into the game in a bit of slump. After a 5 for 6, 3 RBI day it is probably safe to say the slump is over.
Although the Brewers managed to maintain first place throughout this rough patch (though just barely, having led Phoenix by 1/2 game coming into this game against S.F.), they will need to get off to a better start in July to hold off the Phoenix Speed Devils (now 1 1/2 gb), Oklahoma City Diamond Kings (still hanging in there at 2 1/2 gb), and recently hot Detroit Falcons and Los Angeles Spinners (3 and 3 1/2 games back respectively).
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