The Brewers saw a three-game winning streak ended with Wednesday's 9-3 loss to the Chicago Cubs. Their ace pitcher, Ben Sheets, left with a groin strain in the third inning.

Bill Hall went 0-for-4 and is hitting .247 for the season.

He went 1-for-10 in the Brewers' first two games against the Cubbies, a 5-4 victory on Monday and a 4-1 win on Tuesday.

The Brewers are off today, then play a three-game set at Houston over the weekend. Monday, they're home against St. Louis and will be on an ESPN night game.

Hall went 0-for-4 in Saturday's 6-4 Brewers win against the Houston Astros.

Sunday was much better. Hall went 3-for-4 with his fourth homer of the season in a 4-3 Brewers' win.

And he made a big play with his glove.

Hall, who has struggled with four errors since moving to center field at the start of the season, made a sliding catch on his back of Carlos Lee's sinking liner with two outs in the first. A hit would have scored Mark Loretta, who had doubled.

"I will never get mad (at Brewers manager Ned Yost) for taking me out for a defensive replacement," Hall said. "But I am going to work my butt off to not come out of the game in the eighth and ninth inning and prove that I can be credible out there and make all the plays."

The Brewers went into Monday's game against the Cubs with four wins in their last five games.

The Brewers wound up losing 6-5 Friday night on a grand slam by Craig Biggio – right over the head of center fielder Bill Hall.

"I took a good route to it and I just tried to jump and catch it," Hall said. "I just missed it by 6 inches or maybe even a little less than that."

Hall went 1-for-3 and is hitting .273 for the season.

The teams play again tonight.

Unlike the Brewers, who are at home, I was on the road last night.

So, here's the update:

Hall went 1-for-5 and scored a run as Milwaukee beat Pittsburgh 7-5 on Thursday.

Glancing in on Saturday's game, the Brewers and Houston Astros are tied at 1 ... and Hall has driven in the one Brewers' run so far on a single in the bottom of the first.

It was an interesting scene in Milwaukee on Wednesday night as Bill Hall squared off in the first inning against Pittsburgh lefty Paul Maholm, the former Mississippi State standout.

Hall took him deep for a two-run homer, his third big fly of the season.

Maholm said he left a slider over the plate that Hall – a .217 career hitter against the Pirates – jumped on.

"It's one of those things that happens, but overall I felt good," said Maholm, a former first-round draft pick who's 11-13 in 39 career starts.

In what turned into a 7-3 win over Pittsburgh, Hall went 3-for-4 with two runs and three RBIs (he also had an RBI double in the sixth).

After suffering through a horrible 10-day slump, Hall is hitting .583 (7-of-12) in his last three games. His season batting average has pepped up to .277 – comfortably in the range of his .266 career average.

Now that his hitting has started to come around, Hall can start to focus on his fielding. He had an error Wednesday night – his fourth in 11 centerfield starts – when he misplayed a pickoff that sailed past second base into the outfield.

Two errors were changed on the play.

The Brewers continue their homestand with a 12:05 p.m. game against Pittsburgh. Houston then visits for a three-game weekend set.

I checked in at ESPN.com today and note that Bill Hall is still owned in 91.1 percent of all MLB fantasy leagues, which is down from 98.1 percent a week ago. He's been in a slump, yes, but it's April and wise owners won't panic for a while yet.

He will hit.

In the Rotohog league, his value has slipped a little in the last 10 days, from $22.90 on april 9 (when I sold, sorry) to $20.48 today.

That'll probably look like a bargain in a few weeks.

The Brewers lost 11-5 on Tuesday to the Reds, but Bill Hall went 3-for-4 and scored twice.

He's hitting .500 (4-for-8) in his last two games after a protracted slump to open the season.

He did have a bobble in the outfield that allowed a Reds' run to score and has three errors already this season at a new position.

Back in the lineup Sunday, Bill Hall went 0-for-4.

But on Monday, in a 10-6 win against Cincinnati, Hall belted his first career grand slam.

His seventh-inning homer came off Reds reliever Todd Coffey and gave Hall his first RBIs since opening day. He'd been in a 1-for-22 slump.

But Hall has always played well against the Reds. He entered the game with a career batting average of .312 against Cincy in 199 at-bats. Monday's slam was his 14th career home against the Reds – his most against any opponent.

"Billy always finds a way to put up a pretty good offensive performance here," Brewers manager Ned Yost told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.

Already guaranteed of their first winning road trip of more than three games since August of 2005, the Brewers play the Reds again tonight.

The Brewers won 3-2 at St. Louis on Saturday night but Bill Hall didn't play.

The scoop from MLB.com:

Brewers manager Ned Yost stuck with the same starting lineup Saturday that he had in place Friday afternoon. Slumping center fielder Bill Hall was out of the lineup and Gabe Gross, who also started Wednesday in Florida and went 2-for-4 with two RBIs, was in.

"I really thought about playing Billy today, but then I looked at the matchups," Yost said, referring to Hall's .125 lifetime average (3-for-24) against Cards starter Kip Wells.

"It didn't surprise me," Hall said of the extra day off. "Gabe has been swinging a hot bat, and I'm sure Ned wanted to give him a chance to play."

Friday's Milwaukee-St. Louis game was rained out. The makeup date hasn't been decided.

The starting time for the Saturday game has been pushed back to the evening in hopes of ducking the rain.