MILWAUKEE -- Surely, when the Brewers quietly added Travis Shaw and Eric Thames to their third- and first-base depth this offseason, they weren't expecting this.
The duo has gone into the club's history books, with Shaw's knock in Saturday's loss to the Marlins clinching its status as just the third pairing of left-handed hitters to hit 30 homers apiece in the same season. Only Geoff Jenkins and Jeromy Burnitz in 2000 and Cecil Cooper and Ben Oglivie in 1982 had previously accomplished the feat -- something that has admittedly come as a surprise to manager Craig Counsell.