MILWAUKEE -- Kyle Lohse had the Chicago Cubs hitting harmless groundballs early in counts. He threw in the occasional fastball to keep batters off balance. The Cubs struggled at the plate with the Milwaukee Brewers veteran locked in with his slider and sinker. Lohse allowed just three hits in a complete game shutout, and Ryan Braun had a two-run homer in the first inning of a 9-0 rout against the Cubs on Sunday. Milwaukee pounded Cubs ace Jeff Samardzija (1-5) for eight earned runs in three innings, raising his ERA from 1.68 to 2.54. "I figured it would be low-scoring on both ends. I knew Kyle had a good chance of keeping them down and I didnt expect to get a lot of runs off Samardzija. Great offence," manager Ron Roenicke said. Braun homered to left on the first pitch he saw from Samardzija, and the Brewers rolled from there with Samardzija having trouble locating his fastball. Lyle Overbay broke the game open with a three-run double in the third. Even Lohse had success at the plate with an RBI single to drive in Overbay to make it 8-0 for the pitchers second run-scoring hit of the game. Lohse (7-1) needed just 93 pitches in tossing his eighth career shutout. "Its fun to go out there and help out, add on, but thats not my main job," Lohse said about his 2 for 3 day with the bat. "My main job was to go out there and get us deep in the game, and I take a little more pride in that." With Lohses pitch count at just 83 pitches after eight innings, Roenicke wasnt even thinking about pulling the veteran. "I didnt even go talk to him. When you see that kind of game and the pitch count that low, its impressive," the skipper said. One of the few highlights for Chicago was Brian Schlitters single to lead off the seventh for the relievers first major league hit. Otherwise it was a frustrating day for the last-place Cubs. They lost their 14th straight series on the road, a streak dating to last September. Samardzijas "command wasnt the best today, but it was just one of those days for him," manager Rick Renteria said. "I think very rare." The eight earned runs allowed were as many as Samardzija had given up in his previous six starts. Scooter Gennett had two doubles off Samardzija before hitting his third homer of the year in the fifth off reliever Justin Grimm. Gennetts first double exemplified the Cubs afternoon. A high fly to shallow left-centre in the second fell in between backpedaling shortstop Starlin Castro and charging outfielder Junior Lake, who looked away in frustration as Gennett hustled into second. "You have to take advantage of mistakes against a good pitcher like that. When a team makes mistakes like that, you have to jump on it," Braun said. Two innings later, Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo was ejected by home plate umpire Jerry Meals for arguing a called third strike and Chicago trailing by eight. The left-handed slugger turned to face Meals and pointed angrily with his left arm at the ground before being sent back to the dugout by Renteria. "I said my peace and I definitely understand why I got ejected," Rizzo said. "Im going to move on." Braun hit his ninth homer of the year and second in three days. The Brewers hope it might be a sign that hes over the right oblique injury that sidelined him for two weeks in May. Notes: Chicago planned to give Luis Valbuena a couple days off as a precaution after Renteria said the infielder was "a little tired, a little sore" with what he described as an abdominal ailment. ... Brewers 3B Aramis Ramirez (hamstring) went 0 for 2 and fielded a grounder in four innings in his first game of a two-day rehab stint at the teams Class A affiliate in Appleton. ... ... Chicago is off Monday and opens a three-game series Tuesday against the visiting New York Mets. 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After the loss, White refused to make good on the bet, instead offering Hoyt tickets to a Bears game.RENTON, Wash. - It was not a simple season for Seattle Seahawks general manager John Schneider, from the preseason holdout of Marshawn Lynch to the midseason trade of Percy Harvin.Even celebrating the Seahawks second straight NFC championship didnt come at a time when Schneider could fully appreciate it with the Seahawks preparing for free agency and the draft.Right after the game was pretty exciting in the locker room knowing that we were going back, Schneider said, and had done something no one else had done in 10 years is pretty special and a true testament to everybody in the football operations, especially the players and the coaches.Seattles typically quiet general manager spoke with local writers for the first time since last Mays draft on Friday. It was Schneiders first comments since Seattle made the surprising midseason trade of Harvin to the New York Jets.Schneider had been in conversations with a number of teams about moving Harvin. The Jets lost at New England in a Thursday night game and almost immediately began aggressively pursuing a deal that was finalized the next day.We took a shot for a highly explosive player. For a number of different reasons, it didnt work out and we knew that we had to resolve that situation as quickly as we could so that we could just move forward as a football team, as an organization, Schneider said of Harvin. It was a very hard decision, one that we didnt make overnight.While the trade caught the team by surprise, Schneider felt it was handled well by the staff and he didnt believe that was the cause of Seattle losing at St. Louis that weekend.I thought everybody handled it as well as it could possibly be, especially that weekend, he said. As far as it affecting thhat game, I cant tell you if it did or not.dddddddddddd. Thats always been a very tough place for us to play. The previous year, we won on a goal-line stand down there, so I think its always been a very tough play for us, so Im not sure if that had an effect on that specific game, but I know that after that, we were really able to kind of get our feet back under us.Before the season started, Schneider had to deal with the brief holdout of Lynch during the first week of training camp before his contract was restructured. There have been various reports that Seattle is ready to move on from Lynch, but Schneider only had praise for his star running back.Hes under contract next year. Hes a warrior. Goes out there every weekend and lays it on the line, he said. I think youd be hard-pressed to find a better running back in the National Football League.Once the Super Bowl ends, Schneider can turn his attention to trying to keep the Seahawks together. Seattle has already locked up linebacker K.J. Wright and defensive end Cliff Avril with new deals and can extend quarterback Russell Wilson this off-season.We dont have a timetable, Schneider said of Wilson. At the appropriate time, we are able to speak to his representatives and well do that.Seattle doesnt have many unrestricted free agents, but the one expected to draw the most interest is cornerback Byron Maxwell.That, quite frankly, is one of our first priorities is to talk to (Maxwell), Schneider said. Now I think he, like a lot of our other unrestricted guys, I think he is going to be highly sought after and he should be. But we would at least like to have the opportunity to retain him.___AP NFL website: www.pro32.ap.org and www.twitter.com/AP_NFL ' ' '