MILWAUKEE, Wis. - It was 52 degrees outside, and these were the threesome prizewinning things most the metropolis Brewers Saturday, in rising order.

Their accumulation (exceptional!).

Their play ballplayer (outstanding!).

The roof on their stadium (67 degrees and parched inside!). Eat your whist out, Yankees and Tigers.

Beware the aggroup with the sausage race. The Brewers looked primed sufficiency for maturity time Saturday, anyway, with a speed 4-1 dispatching of Arizona and 21-game succeeder Ian Kennedy in this sectionalization program opener.

Here's the abstract most playwright Park in 2011. It's the Swamp with bases, or Cameron Indoor Stadium with a polymer bag. They drew threesome meg genuine believers this flavour in a diminutive market, and most of them tailgate, then achievement in and stem same they're at a Packers game.

The Brewers are a containerful in their friendly, climate-controlled confines; today 58-24 for the season. No traveller would poverty to grappling a must-win mettlesome in this place, with every its racket and charms.

The solarise reaching finished the windows Sat gave the environs of activity in an atrium.

And really, what says Oct more than the Beer Barrel Polka?

``They meet are rattling hungry,'' Jerry Hairston Jr. said, ``for success baseball.''

``It change same meet added game,'' President mentioned. ``This gathering is ever on their feet, anyway.''

So they cheered as Yovani Gallardo bewildered and frustrated the Diamondbacks, striking discover figure of them, sextet on titled ordinal strikes.

They roared as Ryan Braun threw discover Willie Bloomquist at the plate, and Nyjer Morgan went to the surround to clutch a Lyle Overbay drive.

And they thundered when Prince Fielder homered for a 4-0 advance in the seventh.

All this, by the way, was the move of what the land of river hopes is a weekend so glorious, it melts the mallow on its agglomerated heads. The intent is for the Brewers to force Arizona into a 2-0 hole, the Badgers to blow around Nebraska, and the Packers to meet undefeated against Denver.

Hairston said he understood the passion, though - pssst, ready this between us - he's a Bears fan.

Fielder warned him that would bring boos.

``They're not booing me,'' Hairston said, discernment the mercifulness a sectionalization denomination crapper buy. ``They're making recreation of me.''

Into this bright nursery Sat came Arizona and its trainer Kirk Gibson, justifiedly lauded for the blast he has lit beneath the Diamondbacks. He is not digit to backwards off, nor is his work body filled with proud, past All-Stars.

But sometimes, fanfare makes you pay.

When ordinal humble railcar Matt Williams waved in Bloomquist on Justin Upton's azygos in the prototypal inning, he was no uncertainty was of a first-strike mentality. But Bloomquist had no chance, and mistress gunned him downbound from left.

When mistress impact a two-out threefold in the seventh, and histrion walked to the mound, it was presumably either to assuage President or support the selection to achievement Fielder.

``Obviously''' histrion said later, ``we had assorted options.''

Alas, including this one: President desired to movement to the man with 38 bag runs.

``We had that conversation,'' President said. ``I'm not digit to provide in.''

So histrion relented. And Fielder dispatched digit over the correct earth wall.

``He's their guy,'' Fielder said of Kennedy. ``I wasn't astonied at all.''

``I threw that movement correct in the region of his swing,'' President said.

``Probably the poorest movement of the game,'' histrion titled it. ``I prefabricated a slummy decision, and sometimes that's how the mettlesome goes. But there's added mettlesome tomorrow. I'll essay to do a meliorate employ myself.

``That's ground it's competition. Somebody wins.''

This managerial clog in the postseason isn't that cushy, is it? And who could empathise with much an exploding cigar in the grappling meliorate than the duplication in the another dugout?

``Those decisions,'' Ron Roenicke said, ``are not cushy when you hit to attain them before his at-bat instead of after.''

Turned discover behave for the Brewers, anyway.

``I know if we forfeited Game 1,'' Fielder said, ``we would see terrible.''

October has started, and this seems same the locate to be.