Sunday specifically was a big day for the club. The reason for this was because Brandon Woodruff was scheduled to take the mound in a big league game for the first time since he injured his shoulder.

The Brewers were facing a starting pitching shortage on Sunday while awaiting word on the severity of right-hander Tobias Myers’ left oblique injury, and perhaps watching Brandon Woodruff's velocity tick up another notch in his first Major League game in 18 months,

Woodruff went one inning, allowing no hits, no runs, one walk, with one strikeout. He struck out Kyle Manzardo and got Jhonkensy Noel, postseason hero for Cleveland, to ground out to short on a 95 MPH fastball, his fastest pitch of the day and the fastest he's thrown since the surgery.

On Tuesday afternoon, Woodruff pitched in a game setting for the first time since undergoing shoulder surgery 17 months ago. Facing San Diego prospects in a minor-league game at American Family Fields of Phoenix, he came out firing, reaching 94 mph on the radar gun and debuted a new pitch.

Milwaukee Brewers fans should be pretty excited right now. Real baseball is just over the horizon. We're less than three weeks from Opening Day and Milwaukee is