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The Brewers finish the week with a 6-game winning streak in hand and while Phoenix has also been playing well of late the Brewers do manage to extend their lead a bit, to 5 1/2 games.
The Brewers take 3 straight from San Francisco in Denver. Game 1 takes extra innings to resolve as the Brewers win 3-2 on a walk-off pinch-hit HR by James Jackson. Diego Ramirez had one of his better outings of the season as he worked 8 innings, allowing 2 runs on 8 hits, striking out 7 and walking 3. (He did not get a decision in this one, of course, but he is now 6-4 with a 3.20 ERA.)

Then, after seeing the offense struggle to score runs for the past week or so, the team broke out of the hitting doldrums with 7-3 and 7-2 victories in the next 2 games. In game 2, James Jackson homered again, his 3rd of the season, and Ruben Souffront hit his 11th in the 3rd inning. Steve Alonso (12-7, 3.34) went the distance for the win. Bobby Erbakan (.280/.314/.396), who at age 22 has been a streaky hitter this season, is hot again and went 3 for 4 in the game with a pair of doubles (28) and his 6th triple of the season.
In the final game of the series, Ruben Souffront once again homered. No, scratch that. Ruben TWICE again homered in the third game. Ruben (.293/.330/.458) now has 13 HR's on the year and has driven in a team-high 89 runs. He also hit his 12th double of the season in the game (to go along with 12 triples and 34 stolen bases.)