Wednesday game report: Brewers at Cubs

\u25a0 Brewers general manager Doug Melvinand bench coach Jerry Narron both had ties to Yogi Berra, who died Wednesday at age 90. Melvin's first front office job was as the "eye in the sky" for the Yankees in 1979 when Berra coached there. Melvin would talk from the stands to Berra in the dugout via walkie talkie and thought there was interference on the line until he realized it was Berra spitting tobacco juice. When the Yankees came to Milwaukee to play the Brewers, Melvin and Berra would meet for breakfast at 6:30 a.m. at The Pfister and then go for a walk while Yogi had his "morning chew." Some 23 years later, Melvin would become the Brewers' GM. Narron was a backup catcher on that same '79 team and was invited to go out to dinner one night with Berra, coach Elston Howardand catcher Thurman Munson. Narron thought they were headed for a fine New York chophouse but they ended up eating chili dogs on Coney Island. "I go up to the counter and order, then Thurman and Elly," Narron said. "Then Yogi gets up there and the guy says, 'Mr. Berra, you don't have to pay.' We had to pay but he didn't. Everybody knew Yogi." Munson was killed in a plane crash later that season.

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