Diamondbacks do everything except win, beaten by Brewers 3-2 in 10th inning of deciding Game 5
Nyjer Morgan singled home the winning run with one out in the 10th and the Milwaukee <a href="http://wk.putianb2b.com/"><strong>网赚联盟 </strong></a> Brewers eliminated Arizona 3-2 in the deciding Game 5 of their NL division series on Friday. “It was a great game for the fans, for baseball, it was well played. Unfortunately, we lost,” Arizona manager Kirk Gibson said. “We’ve had great comebacks all year. Unfortunately, tonight we weren’t able to finish it off,” he said.Trailing 2-1 in the ninth, Arizona got to closer John Axford after he had converted 43 straight regular-season saves and another in the postseason.Gerardo Parra doubled — his first hit of the series — and reached third on Sean Burroughs’ single. Bloomquist put down a safety squeeze up the first-base line as Axford and first baseman Prince Fielder converged, but neither could make a throw home.Axford remained in big trouble with runners on first and second as Diamondbacks players on the bench did the “The Snake” — a striking motion with their hands in response to Milwaukee’s “Beast Mode” theatrics. But Axford struck out Aaron Hill and got Justin Upton and Henry Blanco to ground out.Arizona never had another baserunner as Axford retired the side in order in the 10th.In the bottom half, Carlos Gomez singled off Arizona closer J.J. Putz and stole second. Morgan then lashed a single up the middle with Putz trying to kick it with his right foot and Bloomquist diving in vain.Chris Young’s throw from center to Blanco was high and late as the celebration started immediately at home plate for the Brewers.The NL West champions had rallied to win a majors-best 48 times in the regular season, and looked poised to pull off a series victory after climbing out of an 0-2 hole.The momentum swung twice in the sixth alone with ace Ian Kennedy on the mound and the game tied at 1. Ryan Braun led off with a double and Kennedy walked <a href="http://wk.putianb2b.com/"><strong>网赚论坛 </strong></a> Fielder on four pitches, none of them close.But Rickie Weeks popped up a bunt attempt to sacrifice the runners over, and Young made a tremendous over-the-shoulder catch of Jerry Hairston Jr.’s drive to deep center field for the second out.Hairston put both hands on his helmet, looking up in disbelief. Kennedy slammed his right hand into his glove, shouting, “Yeah, baby!” and then pointing out to Young to thank him.But not even Young could help him on the next at-bat, when Yuniesky Betancourt’s soft bloop landed in short center field, scoring Braun to make it 2-1.Arizona squandered a bases-loaded opportunity with two out in the eighth against former Mets closer Francisco Rodriguez. Ryan Roberts, who hit a grand slam in Game 4, fell behind to K-Rod 0-2 and hit into a weak grounder to end the threat.The Diamondbacks broke through the next inning against Axford, who was roughed up by Arizona on July in Miller Park. In that game, Milwaukee had a 6-1 lead, but Axford came in and took the loss 8-6 after Arizona had tied it.Axford lost this lead, too, before bearing down and retiring six straight to earn the victory.Arizona completed a worst-to-first turnaround under Gibson and looked to reach its first NLCS since being swept by the Colorado Rockies in 2007.But the Diamondbacks never manufactured a big inning as they did back home when they hit grand slams in each of their two victories in Phoenix — one by rookie Paul Goldschmidt in Game 3 and another by Roberts in Game 4. “We’ve come a long way,” Gibson said. “We set goals in the <a href="http://wk.putianb2b.com/"><strong>网络兼职招聘 </strong></a> beginning of the year. Unfortunately, we didn’t get all the way there. We talked about changing the culture and what does it mean to be a Diamondback.” “I just told these guys that they should be proud, because they’ve set the stage and the standard for how we want to play and they’ve done it all year,” he said.Arizona took a 1-0 lead in the third on Upton’s solo homer off starter Yovani Gallardo. Milwaukee tied it in the fourth on a sacrifice fly by Hairston that brought home Morgan.NOTES: Despite 78-degree temperatures and sunny conditions at gametime, the retractable roof to Miller Park was closed. Both managers said before the game that they didn’t care whether the roof was open or closed, although Milwaukee’s Ron Roenicke said he didn’t mind having similar conditions to the previous games in the series. ... Morgan smashed his bat on the ground and broke it over his knee after popping out to end the fifth inning. ... Arizona became the first team since the 2004 Astros to hit at <a href="http://socialdofollow.com/userrss.php?user=asdfsvxzf&status=all"><strong>网 络兼职赚钱 </strong></a> least 10 homers in a divisional series.Copyright 2011 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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