Brewers manager Dale Sveum met with the media this afternoon at Miller Park and said he does not plan any major changes for Game 3 of the National League Division Series.

Here is a transcript of the interview:

QUESTION: Do you plan on any lineup changes or any batting order changes for tomorrow?

DALE SVEUM: No. We'll go with our left-handed lineup against Moyer. Rickie will be in there and Billy will be in there, same spots.

QUESTION: The offense obviously has been struggling the last two games. What kind of approach is it going to take against Moyer?

DALE SVEUM: Well, I think it's evident what you have to do against Moyer - you've got to work the middle of the field. You can't try and pull him, simple as that. But obviously that's easier said than done sometimes.

QUESTION: How do you talk to these guys about taking this as one game instead of looking it as a whole of three?

DALE SVEUM: Well, I think it's just -- they know the message. We were just going through that before the playoffs started. That's what I emphasized when I first got here and especially that last week of the season when we were -- I think we were three games back in the loss column going into the last seven or eight games of the season. It's one game at a time. You can't think of anything else except the game at hand that day, and obviously we're in that spot right now.

QUESTION: Have you even thought about lineup changes? And if not, is it because you just have too many different guys struggling, and no matter where you put them.

DALE SVEUM: Yeah, I think that's as good a point as any. A lineup change at this point, will it help, will it not? But like you said, it's not like we have three guys swinging really good and three guys medium and a couple guys really bad. Nobody has really got a hot hand right now at anything. So to move them here and there, at least when they go to bed at night, tonight they'll know the lineup, they know where they'll be, and that's comfortable in its own way sometimes.

But like you said, we've struggled for not the last couple days. Cole Hamels was unbelievable. You know, those things are going to happen against great pitchers. But we really haven't swung the bats for a month now.


QUESTION: Does the Mike Cameron thing give you any pause at all? Since you made him lead-off hitter his numbers are really, really bad.

DALE SVEUM: No. I mean, I think, like I said, where you put guys right now in the lineup is irrelevant to what we've got going on. All you're doing is obviously wishing something will turn around, but I don't think -- personally I don't think moving somebody in the lineup has got anything to do with it.

I played a long time. If I were struggling, moving me somewhere else didn't make me a better hitter. That's never made sense that way. Just because you move a spot in the lineup -- you've got to remember, after your first inning, besides Cameron leading off and Billy hitting second and Braunie hitting third, after that everybody is in a different spot anyway. You get a couple guys on, all of a sudden you might be the fourth hitter the next time. So all that stuff is irrelevant.

QUESTION: Is the sense of urgency right now greater than it was a week and a half ago?

DALE SVEUM: I don't know. The way that last week started, to end the season when we got home or the last game in Cincinnati, they knew that they had to win seven games, or six games would possibly do it. Obviously we got some help from the Mets to win six out of seven, got us in the playoffs. But I don't think there's any more urgency than what we went through the last week because our backs were against the wall every single day we went out there. Unfortunately our backs are against the wall now to be eliminated from the playoffs.

But it's just one game at a time, and you know what you have to do. You can't think about Game 5, you can't think about Game 4, you've got to win Game 3 any way you can.


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