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MILWAUKEE (AP) -- While Kerry Wood was shutting them down, the
Brewers waited. When the Cubs went to their bullpen, Milwaukee
pounced.
|  | | Bob Wickman earned his 11th save for the Brewers on Sunday. |
Charlie Hayes' two-run double capped a three-run eighth inning
as the Brewers rallied to beat Chicago 4-2 Sunday, taking two of
three games in an exciting weekend series.
Hayes' hit off reliever Tim Worrell scored Jeromy Burnitz and
Geoff Jenkins. It also signaled another failure by the Cubs'
much-maligned bullpen, which needed all of five pitches to
transform a 2-1 Chicago lead into another heartbreaking defeat.
"You want to keep it close, where one swing can win you the
game," Milwaukee manager Davey Lopes said.
"That's what we did today."
Worrell and reliever Daniel Garibay wasted a strong effort from
Wood (3-6), who allowed six hits in 7 2/3 innings but got into
trouble in the eighth. Wood said he felt strong enough to pitch on,
but manager Don Baylor went to his bullpen -- even though he said he
did it against his better judgment.
"Somehow I have to give those other eight guys a chance to feel
they're going to win the ballgame," Baylor said.
While the Brewers celebrated a victory in front of their biggest
County Stadium crowd since opening day (37,659), the Chicago
clubhouse was desolate. The trade rumors surrounding Sammy Sosa
combined with the close of a 3-9 road trip have left the Cubs'
spirits at perhaps their lowest point this year.
"We're tired of losing," Wood said. "It's not good at all.
You can see it in the clubhouse. We're not very enthusiastic right
now."
With one out and Milwaukee down by a run in the eighth, Ron
Belliard walked and took third on Jenkins' broken-bat single.
Jenkins' bat landed 12 rows into the stands behind the Brewers'
dugout.
Garibay relieved Wood, and Burnitz hit Garibay's only pitch into
left for a single, scoring Belliard with the tying run. Worrell
entered, and Hayes cracked a 2-1 pitch to right-center.
Milwaukee closer Bob Wickman, who blew a two-run lead on Friday
night, got his 11th save in 13 chances by pitching the ninth.
Henry Rodriguez broke a 1-1 tie when he hit a hanging curveball
from Milwaukee starter Jimmy Haynes into the right-field bleachers
to lead off the seventh inning.
Haynes (8-7) pitched well, holding Chicago to six hits over
eight innings. He left the game trailing 2-1, but Milwaukee's rally
gave him his first victory at home since May 7.
"I didn't have my best stuff, but they made some great plays
behind me and we got some big hits when we needed them," Haynes
said.
Chicago scored its first run when Jose Nieves tripled in the
fourth inning, scoring Sosa from first base. The Cubs could have
had more when Brant Brown flied out to right, but Burnitz -- who
missed making a running catch on Nieves' triple -- got Nieves at the
plate with a spectacular 200-foot, no-bounce throw to catcher Henry
Blanco.
"I had no chance," Nieves said. "I thought it was deep enough
to score. He made a tremendous throw. I couldn't do anything."
It was Burnitz's seventh outfield assist of the year. In the
sixth inning, Jenkins also got his seventh assist by throwing out
Sosa at second base when he tried to stretch a long single into a
double.
Wood has been inconsistent in his comeback from elbow surgery
that kept him out for all of 1999, but he was in control against
Milwaukee most of the day. He allowed just one hit -- a first-inning
double by Jenkins -- before the sixth inning.
Wood retired 12 straight hitters before Belliard's one-out
double in the sixth. Luis Lopez doubled home Belliard to tie it at
1, but Lopez was cut down at third on a sharp relay throw by Eric
Young.
The Brewers' three-game weekend series against their biggest
rivals attracted more than 100,000 fans to County Stadium, though a
large portion of the crowd was cheering for the Cubs.
Game
notes
Before this series, Rodriguez hadn't driven in a run since
May 27. ... Haynes walked four batters and Wickman walked one,
boosting Milwaukee's major league-leading walk total to 409. ...
After a disastrous early season, the Cubs' starting pitchers have
allowed just 13 earned runs in Chicago's last five games.
Meanwhile, Milwaukee's starters have given up just 18 hits in their
last 31 1/3 innings.
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