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The Brewers hit the road starting with a 4-game series at San Francisco and proceed to lose 3 of 4 to the 3rd place Velocity.

Game 1 saw the Velocity jump out to an early 3-0 lead in the 3rd inning against rookie Steve Green in just his 2nd major league start. Green would settle down and pitch a decent game- working 7 innings, giving up the 3 runs on 8 hits, striking out 5 and walking none- but while the Brewers managed a couple of runs- 1 in the 4th and 1 in the 7th- they could not completely erase the early deficit and lost 3-2. Green drops to 1-1 with a 2.40 ERA. The Brewers 2 runs came on solo HR's by Antonio Puente (21) and Tanner Yurek (19).

Cheol-han Lee started the second game and while he wasn't horrible he wasn't terribly sharp either- giving up 4 runs (3 earned) on 8 hits over 7 1/3rds innings pitched. The Velocity scored first in the 2nd inning- a single run- and both teams scored 3 times in the 4th and that was the extent of it as the Velocity won 4-3. Lee drops to 13-5 with a 3.02 ERA. Antonio Puente (.245/.365/.488) homered again, his 22nd of the season.

In game 3, Harry Lyerly had another strong outing but was victimized by sloppy defense behind him and very little offensive support. Lyerly worked 8 innings, giving up 4 runs- but none were earned, on 4 hits while striking out 10 and walking 4. The team committed 2 very costly errors behind him- one by Chad Brown, his 32nd of the season, and one by gold glover Bobby Erbakan, his 2nd. The Brewers managed 2 runs on only 3 hits against the Velocity's captain, Josh Lueck, who is a fairly mediocre pitcher. The Brewers lose 4-2. With the loss Harry Lyerly drops to 16-8 but his ERA improves to 2.59. With his 10 K's Lyerly now has 221 on the season, which is the 8th most in a single season in WPK history.

The Brewers finally got a win in game 4 behind another strong start by Daniel Torres. Torres worked 8 innings of 3-hit, 2-run ball, striking out 9 and walking just 2 batters. The offense also came alive, with Tanner Yurek (.286/.378/.519) leading the way with a 3 for 4, 3 run, 2 RBI game and he hit his 20th HR of the season. Although reliever Jaden Francis gave up a few runs late making the final score 7-4, this one was a pretty easy victory. Daniel Torres is now 13-4 with a 2.07 ERA and with only 1 or at most 2 starts left in the season he is likely a shoe-in to finish with the best ERA in the MGL.

The Brewers now have a 1/2 game lead over Phoenix in the race for the MGL pennant.