During his pregame media availability Sunday, Brewers manager Ron Roenicke said that his lineup would be the same as it was yesterday, including at third base, where Jerry Hairston, Jr. will get his second consecutive start.

There was a thought that Roenicke would put Casey McGehee back in the lineup Sunday since he is 5-for-5 in his career against the Diamondbacks' starter, right-hander Daniel Hudson.

McGehee, though, finished the season in a 3-for-45 slump while Hairston is hitting .428 (9-for-21) with four doubles, four RBIs and seven runs scored over his last eight games, including Saturday when he went 1-for-2 with a sacrifice fly and a walk.

Hairston was also good in the field in Game 1, leading Roenicke to play the hot hand and give Hairston another start.

"It was tough," Roenicke said. "It's going to be tough, I think, this whole time in the playoffs. But with Jerry's nice ballgame yesterday, both ways, defensively and offensively, I think that was the right thing to do."

The manager said he did discuss the situation with McGehee in advance.

"I talked to him Friday and told him what I was going to do for yesterday and told him what I was kind of thinking for today, but I told him things can change," Roenicke said. "I said it depends on how Jerry plays. So I set it up.

"But yesterday after the game I stopped by and talked to him again, and he's fine. He wants to start. He wants to get in there and help us. He's actually really looking forward to, like you guys said yesterday, in kind of starting with a zero batting average now.

"If I made a decision to go with Casey I would have felt good with that decision, also. I just think this is a better decision, the right way to go."

No pitch count for Greinke: Zack Greinke gets the start today, his second straight on short rest. Despite that, Roenicke doesn't plan to keep the right-hander on any kind of pitch count, preferring to monitor and adjust as the game progresses.

"We'll watch him," Roenicke said. "The fortunate thing with us is we have a really good bullpen (so) he doesn't need to go seven, eight innings. If he is cruising and his pitch count is low, and we get to the seventh, OK; but there's no reason that we need to go deep with him."

Greinke threw 74 pitches Wednesday in a 7-3 victory over the Pirates.

Chemistry: Roenicke also touched a bit on outfielder Nyjer Morgan, who followed Roenicke in the media auditorium. The Morgan portion of the program is best saved for its own story (and be sure to visit OnMilwaukee.com for that tomorrow), but Roenicke did say that he enjoy's Morgan's presence – and that of his many alter egos.

"I think it's good when you have a lot of different personalities on your team," They all draw from each other. They don't feel like the spotlight's just on one guy. I think it's really healthy.

"It's an awful boring team if you have guys with no personalities. You know as writers it's the same way. You cover a team that's really boring and it's you try to create things. So I love the personalities on this club."