Dave Bush News

It's fitting, on the eve of the Winter Meetings at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, that general manager Doug Melvin and the Brewers are holding their cards so close to the vest.

As the 2009 Milwaukee Brewers start to develop, odds are that the pressure to show improvement will be on many players and coaches throughout the season...here is a first look in descending order at who is ...

Ben Sheets wouldn't be easy to replace in the rotation if he were to leave via free agency.

Even before the off-season's kick-off event, the Major League Baseball general managers' meetings started Monday, the Texas Rangers landed what may be their biggest free-agent pitching addition of the winter.

I think the only Wisconsinites who were happy this weekend were bar and liquor-store owners.

LOS ANGELES: The Los Angeles Dodgers swept the Chicago Cubs out of the Major League Baseball playoffs yesterday, extending the Cubs' century-old World Series drought.

It is like watching a totally different team right now. In the Crew's first two debacles of the NLDS, the offense swung away like they were double parked.

Since the inception of the division series in 1995, only four teams -- all in the American League -- have rebounded from a 2-0 deficit to win the series.

Coaches Bar patrons Rob Cummings, left, of Tinicum, and Bob Keenan, of Wallingford, react as they watch the Phillies play the Brewers in the National League Division Series Saturday.

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Predictably, spirits were high three nights ago on the charter airplane that whisked the Phillies' traveling party to Wisconsin.

For Geoff Jenkins, the good-natured ribbing began right after the Philadelphia Phillies arrived at Milwaukee's Miller Park."The house that Jenks built!" infielder Greg Dobbs hooted.As far as his teammates are ...

A question-answer session with the Milwaukee Brewers' Dave Bush, the starting pitcher in the third game of the NLDS against the Philadelphia Phillies today at Miller Park in Milwaukee.

PHILADELPHIA - A hint of excitement crept into the skipper's voice, the sound that arises when you've hit upon a subject on which he is dying to speak.

The Milwaukee Brewers face elimination from the National League Divisional Series Saturday when they welcome the Phillies to Miller Park.

Q. You guys were piecing together your rotation. Can you just talk about going through that type of thing? DAVE BUSH: Sure, I like to keep routine during the season as far as pitching on the fifth day.

Right-hander Dave Bush will be the Brewers' starting pitcher for Game 3 of the best-of-five National League Division Series, a club spokesperson confirmed Thursday morning.

Mike Maddux has been in professional baseball for 26 years, but a draft-day rookie could have anticipated the question the Brewers pitching coach got in Sunday's eighth inning.

His Phillies T-shirt a sweaty mess and belt drooping unbuckled, Charlie Manuel was ready to go back to work.

But if Milwaukee and New York are still tied at the end of the day for the National League wild-card berth, whom will the Brewers send to the mound Monday night at Shea Stadium in a winner-take-all showdown ...