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Adam Mertz, Todd Milewski, Dennis Semrau and Dennis Punzel chime in with news and notes on your favorite baseball team.

Brewers 13, Giants 4: Notes from the press box

Adam Mertz  — 

Statistical tidbits from the Brewers' 13-4 victory over San Francisco at Miller Park on Friday:

** Whenever one of your achievements is shared with Rogers Hornsby and eclipses the mark of Paul Molitor -- a pair of Hall of Famers -- you're in pretty good company.

Brewers second baseman Rickie Weeks can count himself among that group now that he has scored in 17 straight games dating to last season, which surpassed the club record of 16 set by Molitor in 1987 and ties the National League record set by Hornsby with the Cardinals in 1921 and matched by Ted Kluszewski of the Reds in 1954.

On Saturday, Weeks can tie the modern major league record of 18, set in 1939 by Red Rolfe of the New York Yankees and matched in 2000 by Kenny Lofton, then with Cleveland. References provided by SABR and the Elias Sports Bureau.

* Milwaukee third baseman Bill Hall had his third career multi-homer game. His first-inning homer, a two-run shot off San Francisco starter Jonathan Sanchez, traveled 390 feet. His three-run blast in the fifth off reliever Keiichi Yabu, went an estimated 436 feet.

* Three Brewers had three hits -- Hall (3-for-5, 6 RBIs, two runs scored), Prince Fielder (3-for-4, three RBIs, three runs scored) and Gabe Kapler (3-for-5, two RBIs, two runs).

* Both starting pitchers matched their personal bests for strikeouts. Sanchez had eight in 4 innings for the Giants, while Carlos Villanueva had six in 5 1/3 innings for Milwaukee. However, Sanchez surrendered seven runs, all earned, while Villanueva was charged with two.

* Jason Kendall recorded his 900th career run when he scored on Kapler's single in the sixth inning, becoming just the 12th player in major league history whose primary position was catcher to reach that milestone.

* The 13 runs scored by the Brewers marked their best-ever output on opening day. The previous high came in a 12-3 victory over the Chicago White Sox on April 26, 1995. The game was held late that year because the first month of the season was wiped out by the players' strike.

* The attendance of 45,212 fans marked the third-best total since Miller Park opened in 2001.

Saturday's matchup (12:05 p.m., Miller Park, FSN Wisconsin): Brewers LHP Manny Parra vs. Giants RHP Kevin Correia.

Sunday's series finale, a 1 p.m. start, is expected to be a sellout, thanks in part to it being Prince Fielder bobblehead day.

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