"They punctured it," Cubs manager Joe Maddon said of the Brewers' homers into a northerly wind. "That 'oppo' backdoor slider to Thames on a line into the wind -- you don't see that. That's really powerful stuff. We just made too many mistakes to [Braun]. Those two guys were pretty much their offense and that's the game."
Thames doubled in the first, homered in the third, grounded out in the fifth and singled in the eighth, extending his hitting streak to 10 games.