San Francisco Giants @ Milwaukee Brewers (game 3)

This was a day game, and was the most action-packed of the three games.

Again, the Giants managed to eke out a small lead, and then everything kicked off in the 6th inning when Madison Bumgarner hit Ryan Braun with a pitch, which Braun wasn't very happy about.

As they shouted at each other, the Milwaukee bench emptied, and there was a prolonged nose-to-nose shouting match between the home plate umpire, Tom Hallion, and the Mailwaukee Brewers' manager, Craig Counsell.

As expected, this resulted in an ejection for Counsell, and with further shouting from the dugout, ejections for another pitcher and the emergency catcher.

Unfortunately, the hit-by-pitch had loaded the bases and then Jonathan Schoop hit a grand slam to jump Milwaukee into the lead and they never relinquished that lead.


The German heritage that exists in the region is evident in the onfield race: a group of sausages race around the warning track.  Today it was a relay race, seemingly involving a small version of each sausage as well.

Still, the game ended with another loss, which is the second series sweep in a row for San Francisco.  They return home to start a 3 game series with Atlanta tomorrow.  I'll be heading to San Francisco too, but won't get there in time for the game.

My bus ticket had 50 minutes left on it when I boarded the bus back to downtown, so that saved me $3 over paying for each journey individually.