ST. LOUIS -- Another National League Player of the Week Award -- his third this season and second this month -- helped ease Christian Yelich's pain Monday ahead of the Brewers' pivotal series against the Cardinals.
Yelich, the NL leader with a .322 batting average entering play Monday, was back in action for Milwaukee's opener at Busch Stadium after exiting Sunday's series finale in Pittsburgh with a bruised right elbow. It was the result of an errant fastball from Pirates reliever Michael Feliz, who was back out for the seventh inning despite a wild sixth in which he walked three batters, including two with the bases loaded, and threw a run-scoring wild pitch that gave the Brewers a 12-4 lead in a game they would win, 13-6.