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Volume 13, Issue 4 The Official Newspaper of the 2020 Milwaukee Brewers Fantasy Camp Tuesday, January 28, 2020 50 Years of the Brewers’ Funniest Moments Unofficial Brewers historian Mario trainer John Adam’s pregame Easter egg hunt one fellow user: Pence. Ziino helped Adam McCalvy compile 10 that went right up to game time, with players “It looked at me like, ‘Why is the roof closed? I funniest moments in franchise history. searching for the egg bearing their uniform can’t get out of here,’” Wolf said. number. Paul Molitor found his egg perched 7. Braun takes a tumble - Aug. 31, 2011 November 24, 2019 on third base. Robin Yount’s was in the center- Ryan Braun had a chance for an inside- by Adam McCalvy - Brewers Beat Writer field grass. Catcher B.J. Surhoff’s didn’t appear the-park home run against Jake Westbrook 5 Questions with Ken Sanders 1. Seeing double - June 12, 1977 until he reached back for a baseball from and the Cardinals, only to take a spectacular 1. In January 1970, you were traded Due to a clubhouse theft of everything but home-plate umpire Larry McCoy and McCoy tumble around third base in the third inning to the Seattle Pilots. Basically, a their bats, the Kansas City Royals were forced dropped an egg with the No. 5 into Surhoff’s of the Brewers’ 8-3 loss. Some industrious team without a home. What were to wear the Brewers’ road jerseys for a game open palm. The dugout exploded with laughter. teammates, led by pitcher Shaun Marcum, your feelings about being sent to the at County Stadium. Adding insult, the Brewers’ 3. The Yount-Young game - Aug. 28, 1988 showed up early the following morning to Pilots? Jerry Augustine scattered seven hits across a After the second inning, Tigers manager create not one or two, but three outlines At the time of the trade, we 4-0 shutout, defeating former teammate Jim Sparky Anderson pointed out to the umpiring depicting Braun’s tumble with white athletic didn’t know how bad the Seattle Colborn and the “Milwaukee” Royals. crew that Robin Yount’s name appeared twice tape. There was one on a protective screen, financing problems were. A job 2. Easter egg hunt - April 19, 1987 on the lineup card that had been exchanged meant to simulate Braun going airborne around as usual — a team — going to get How loose were the Brewers by the before first pitch. Brewers manager Tom third base; then another on the ground where paid. afternoon of a sunny Easter Sunday at County Trebelhorn had Yount hitting in his usual three- he fell; and a third where he’d fallen again after Photo by CAMP.SPORTSEYE.com Design by LOOKTHATSMYKID.com Stadium? They had won 11 games in a row to hole and playing center field, and the skipper trying to get up. Braun’s phone was flooded 2. How was Spring Training for you start that season, including the only no-hitter in had meant to have newly acquired Mike with trash talk from friends, and he even had to and the rest of your teammates, not franchise history four days earlier in Baltimore. Young batting fifth as the designated hitter. But hear about it over dinner that night with former knowing where you’ll be playing Milwaukee would make it 12 in a row with a Trebelhorn accidentally entered Yount’s name NBA star Reggie Miller, a neighbor in California your home games? remarkable 6-4 win over the Rangers in which twice. After 20 minutes of debate, Yount was who’d come for a visit. An uneasy time. Where are Rob Deer hit a game-tying, three-run homer in forced to leave the game, and his replacement, 8. Segura steals first base - April 19, 2013 we going to play? are we going to the ninth inning before Dale Sveum delivered Jim Adduci, helped rally the team back from a You had to see it to believe it. In the get paid? What do we do with our a walk-off, two-run shot. Fans remember the 9-4 deficit. The Brewers scored six runs in the bottom of the eighth inning of a 5-4 win over familes? What about housing? home runs, but players tend to recall athletic sixth and two in the seventh to beat the Tigers, the Cubs, the Brewers’ Jean Segura hit an 12-10, with Adduci contributing a single, a infield single and stole second base before 3. On April 1, 1970, six days Fantasy Camp Standings double, a sacrifice fly, two RBIs and two runs Ryan Braun walked. So far, so good. But the before Opening Day, the Pilots scored. inning descended into madness when Cubs were declared bankrupt, securing After 3 games 4. The Racing sausages - June 27, 1993 reliever Shawn Camp caught Segura off a move to Milwaukee. How did To the surprise of 45,580 fans at County second base with a good pickoff move. With you find out the team was being W L Stadium, the sausage race video on the Segura in a rundown, Braun advanced, and moved to Wisconsin and become Where’s Gumby 3 0 scoreboard in the sixth inning came to both runners wound up on second base at the the Milwaukee Brewers? What were life when the bratwurst, Italian and Polish same time. By rule, Braun was out. But Segura J.J. Makes Me Hart 3 0 your emotions? sausages emerged from the left-field gate and mistakenly thought he’d been called out, too, HOORAY!!! We have a team! Sweet G’s 2 1 sprinted to home plate in the first live race by so he started trotting toward the dugout. When The announcement to the team 13 Men and a 1 2 mascots in professional baseball. The Brewers he realized his error, he returned to first base, dropped a 5-4 decision to the Blue Jays, but where he remained as the inning continued. If the night before the public Silk Crimsons 1 2 announcement on April 1st. An the sausages became a sizzling success, and all that was not crazy enough, Segura tried to all-out scramble to get housing & Prodigal Turd Mongers 1 2 soon the idea spread across baseball. steal second base again and was thrown out. transportation for wives & kids. Sweet Colonel Sanders 1 2 5. The Brant Brown game - Sept. 23, 1998 9. Bonus bases for Arcia - Aug. 5, 2016 Money Clip 0 3 Sammy Sosa homered twice to tie the Three years later with a new team, Jean 4. On April 7, 1970, the Brewers and Cardinals’ Mark McGwire at 65 home runs, Segura was trying to be a good guy, and look their fans celebrated their return to and the Cubs had this one well in hand with what it got him. Brewers rookie shortstop Milwaukee. However, the team lost a 7-0 lead at the seventh inning stretch. But Orlando Arcia -- the team’s most lauded to the California Angels, 12-0. Minus Batting Average Leaderboard the Brewers scored four runs in the bottom of prospect since Ryan Braun -- who was three the disappointment of losing, I’m Name Team Name BA the seventh, one run in the eighth, then got a days into his big league career, rapped a sure you were excited to start the 8-7 walk-off win when Cubs left fielder Brant game-tying RBI single to right field in the fourth season and have a home for the Derek Niemi Sweet G's .900 Brown dropped Geoff Jenkins’ fly ball at the inning. When the baseball returned to D-backs Sweet Colonel Sanders 1970 season. THE DAY OF PICTURE Brad Polczynski .875 edge of the warning track with two outs and shortstop Segura on the field, he flipped it to (The) “PILOTS” were Peter Mcfarland Silk Crimsons .833 the bases loaded in the bottom of the ninth. Milwaukee’s dugout for safekeeping. Trouble removed from the front of the All three runs scored on the error, one of the was, the umpires had not called time yet, so Seattle uniforms and replaced Monday’s Results Butch Wiegel Where's Gumby .800 most memorable bloopers in County Stadium the baseball was live and Arcia was awarded with “BREWERS.” A home. A new Bob Grass Prodigal Turd Mongers .750 history. two bases. The Brewers couldn’t capitalize, season. Play Ball. (Lew) Krausse Morning Games Afternoon Games Christopher Grossmann Prodigal Turd Mongers .750 6. Miller Park hawk - April 24, 2011 however, and went on to lose the game in 11 vs. (Andy) Messersmith. Rickie Weeks homered and Randy Wolf innings, 3-2. Prodigal Turd Mongers - 2 Silk Crimsons - 10 13 Men and a Grasshopper Ron Schoenbach .750 scattered four hits over eight sharp innings of 10. Let’s go for ice cream - July 1, 2017 Money Clip - 1 J.J. Makes Me Hart - 12 5. You were one of the bright spots Dan Zier Silk Crimsons .750 a 4-1 win over the Astros at Miller Park, but Who can predict when a hunger pang will for the Brewers during the 1970 Silk Crimsons - 1 Sweet G’s - 19 Terry Jannsen Where's Gumby .727 the star of the game was the small hawk that interrupt a day at work? Orlando Arcia and the season. You were 5-2, with 13 saves Where’s Gumby - 5 Prodigal Turd Mongers - 13 attacked another bird over center field in the Brewers were sweating through an 8-4 win and a 1.75 ERA.