Easter Sunday inspiration

Somebody is providing the Brewers with some clubhouse inspiration this morning, looping video of the team’s famous 1987 Easter Sunday win over the Rangers at old County Stadium. Rob Deer and (current Brewers hitting coach) Dale Sveum hit back-to-back home runs to win that game and extend the team’s season-opening winning streak to 12.

Prince Fielder and Craig Counsell were hooting and hollering while my friend Josh Vernier of WSSP was trying to record a radio interview earlier this morning, and Kameron Loe was enjoying Bob Uecker’s call when I stopped in the clubhouse a moment ago.

Fans voted Sveum’s walk-off homer the second-best moment in Brewers history last season, when the club celebrated its 40th anniversary in Milwaukee. Here’s a Brewers.com story on that game from 2007, written by blast-from-the-past Kelvin Ang.

The Brewers play again today, and second baseman Rickie Weeks is back in the lineup after missing Saturday’s game with a sprained left pinkie finger. Outfielder Brandon Boggs, called-up from Triple-A Nashville on Thursday, gets his first Brewers start.

ASTROS
Jason Bourgeois CF
Angel Sanclez SS
Hunter Pence RF
Carlos Lee 1B
Bill Hall 2B
Jason Michaels LF
Chris Johnson 3B
J.R. Towles C
Wandy Rodriguez LHP

BREWERS
Rickie Weeks 2B
Carlos Gomez CF
Ryan Braun LF
Prince Fielder 1B
Casey McGehee 3B
Yuniesky Betancourt SS
Brandon Boggs RF
Wil Nieves C
Randy Wolf LHP

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