Prince hits his 50th home run - youngest player ever

Prince Fielder became the youngest major league player ever to hit 50 home runs in a season, connecting twice in the Milwaukee Brewers' 9-1 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday night.

The win pulled the Brewers to within two games of the NL Central-leading Chicago Cubs, who lost at Florida 4-2 Tuesday night. With five games remaining for each team, the Cubs' magic number remained stuck at four.

Fielder joined his father Cecil as the only father-son tandem to hit 50 home runs in a season. The elder Fielder hit 51 with the Detroit Tigers in 1990.

I purchased my potential playoff tickets today - 4 tickets for the Division Series Home Game 1, if needed, of course.

The Brewers still face an uphill climb to unseat the Cubs in the final week of the season, but at least they're making it interesting.

Prince Fielder becomes a 100-100 player

The Brewers Blog on JSonline reported that Prince Fielder scored his 100th run of the season tonight, becoming only the fifth player in Milwaukee Brewers franchise history to collect 100 runs and 100 RBI's in the same season.

The other Brewers to accomplish that feat were Robin Yount (1982 and 1989), Cecil Cooper (1982, 1983), John Jaha (1996), and Jeromy Burnitz (2001).

The Brewers won tonight but the Cubs also won by scoring 3 runs in the bottom of the 9th. Give me a break.

I signed up for the Brewers play-off ticket lottery, just in case. Unfortunately, 102,000 other people also signed up for the right to purchase single-game tickets to a playoff game, if there is one.