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Rush Order Milwaukee Brewers .MILWAUKEE -- The Atlanta Braves aren't the only team winning with rookies.
With plenty of help from a Florida Marlins defense that committed four errors and gift-wrapped four unearned runs, the Milwaukee Brewers rode their rookies to a 6-4 win on Wednesday in front of 33,323 at Miller Park.
Corey Hart notched his first career stolen base and scored the tying run. Rickie Weeks atoned for an earlier error with a go-ahead hit. J.J. Hardy matched a career high with three hits and Dana Eveland helped return some sanity to an ugly game with two brilliant innings of relief.
"It was a little ugly out there at first, but we settled down and they settled down," Hardy said. "We scored a few runs off them early, and we couldn't hold the lead. Sure enough, we won the ballgame."
"It really feels good," Weeks said. "It really takes something off the backs of veterans like Carlos Lee and Geoff Jenkins. Of course, they're doing the job already and we're just trying to add to them."
But like the rookies themselves, Wednesday's win was unpolished at best.
Florida committed three errors in the first inning, tying a club record while spotting the Brewers three unearned runs and a 3-1 lead. But the Brewers gave it right back in the third inning, when Weeks committed a throwing error before converging with Hardy and Hart on a Miguel Cabrera fly ball that somehow dropped between them for a double.
Carlos Delgado made the Brewers pay for those mistakes. He hooked a three-run home run around the right-field foul pole for a 4-3 Florida lead.
"You make rookie mistakes," said Hart, who probably should have called off Weeks and made the catch. "We're going to get comfortable -- all of us are going to get to the point where things like that aren't going to happen."
All three had chances to atone.
In the fifth, the Brewers scored the tying run against Marlins right-hander A.J. Burnett (12-7) without the benefit of a hit thanks to Hart. He walked and stole second base (Hart swiped 17 bases at Triple-A), then advanced to third and scored on consecutive groundouts to second base by Lyle Overbay and Lee.
Hardy and Weeks teamed up in the sixth, when the Brewers pushed back in front. Catcher Damian Miller and Hardy singled before Weeks lined a two-out single toward right fielder Jeff Conine.
Had Conine fielded the ball and thrown home, he would have almost certainly thrown out Miller and preserved the tie. Instead, the ball skipped to the warning track and both Brewers runners scored. Weeks was credited with one RBI.
"It was a bullet, and at times the ball skips in the outfield," Yost said. "Conine, to his credit, was charging really hard to make a play at the plate. But the ball was hit so hard that it hit the grass and shot right by him."
It was the Brewers' fourth unearned run of the night, and Conine was charged with the Marlins' fourth error, a season high. Does Weeks view a hit like that as a "make up?"
"Not really," he said. "You have to go up there with your mind clear. Things happen during the course of a ballgame and you're supposed to focus on the moment at hand. That was the key, and I was just looking for something to drive out there."
The go-ahead rally came just in time to make a winner of Tomo Ohka (9-7), who pitched six innings and allowed four runs. He snapped an 11-start winless streak against the Marlins and beat them for the first time since May 2003. Derrick Turnbow pitched the ninth for his 28th save.
Sure, it was a bit ugly. But with the season winding down and the Brewers on the verge of exorcising 12 consecutive losing seasons, they'll take every win they can get.
"I'm real encouraged with a lot of things that I'm seeing out there now," Yost said cautiously. "There are good signs that could point to some good things."
Said Lee: "The better the teams we face, the better we play. We're playing a tough team right now and, so far, so good."
Especially for the Brewers' rookies.
"They've been playing great since they got here -- all of them," Yost said. "That's a huge part of what makes this so exciting, watching those kids get an opportunity and do well with it."