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Brewers Fire Yost With 12 Games Left
The Brewers fire manager Ned Yost on Monday, with the team mired in a late-season slump that has jeopardized its chances of making the playoffs for the first time since 1982.
(Morry Gash - The Associated Press)
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The Brewers fired Manager Ned Yost yesterday, hoping to pull out of another late-season slump that has jeopardized the team's chance of making the playoffs for the first time since 1982.
3B coach Dale Sveum will take over as interim manager for the remainder of the season. The Brewers have lost seven of eight and fallen into a tie with Philadelphia for the NL wild-card lead.
It marked the first time in major league history -- except the strike-split 1981 season -- that a manager was fired in August or later with his team in playoff position, the Elias Sports Bureau said.
At 83-67, the Brewers have just 12 games to rebound.
"[Yost] didn't have all the answers for what is going on the last two weeks and I'm not sure I have all the answers," GM Doug Melvin said during a news conference at a hotel in Chicago. "I'm not sure this is the right one, either."
Melvin met with principal owner Mark Attanasio yesterday morning and the decision to fire Yost was made. Melvin acknowledged it was an unprecedented move but one that "shows we're serious about winning."
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-- From News Services
