POW-winning Yelich ‘good to go’ after HBP

Another National League Player of the Week Award — his third this season and second this month — helped ease Christian Yelich’s pain Monday ahead of the Brewers’ pivotal series against the Cardinals. Yelich, the NL leader with a .322 batting average entering play Monday, was back in action for Milwaukee’s opener at Busch Stadium after exiting Sunday’s series finale in Pittsburgh with a bruised right elbow.