VOTTO 6TH AND AXFORD 18TH IN NL MVP VOTING

By Adam McCalvy / MLB.com

MILWAUKEE — And now, a dose of tradition to follow a day of debate. Brewers left fielder Ryan Braun — a prolific hitter from a contending team — is the National League’s Most Valuable Player.

Braun outpolled the Dodgers’ Matt Kemp to become Milwaukee’s first league MVP since Hall of Famer Robin Yount won for the second time in 1989, when the Brewers were still an American League franchise. Braun was nervously waiting on the balcony of his Malibu, Calif., home with his home phone in one hand and his cell in the other, when the happy call finally came Tuesday from the Baseball Writers’ Association of America.

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