LOS ANGELES -- For the first time since 2012, Brewers right fielder Ryan Braun is going to an All-Star Game.Braun was named a National League reserve on Sunday as a replacement for injured Cardinals outfielder Matt Holliday. It's Braun's sixth career All-Star nod, but his first since he was suspended in 2013 for violations of Major League Baseball's performance-enhancing drug policy. 
He joins closer Francisco Rodriguez as Brewers All-Star representatives.Braun entered Sunday's game against the Dodgers hitting .272 with 15 home runs, 55 RBIs, 17 doubles, 50 runs scored and 12 stolen bases. It's been a return to form for a player who won the NL Most Valuable Player Award in 2011 and was runner-up to the Giants' Buster Posey in 2012, but who was dogged in 2013 and '14 by persistent pain in his right thumb. Braun and the Brewers found a solution to that problem last October, when he underwent a cryotherapy procedure to freeze a troublesome nerve. Braun repeated that procedure in early June.
He joins closer Francisco Rodriguez as Brewers All-Star representatives.Braun entered Sunday's game against the Dodgers hitting .272 with 15 home runs, 55 RBIs, 17 doubles, 50 runs scored and 12 stolen bases. It's been a return to form for a player who won the NL Most Valuable Player Award in 2011 and was runner-up to the Giants' Buster Posey in 2012, but who was dogged in 2013 and '14 by persistent pain in his right thumb. Braun and the Brewers found a solution to that problem last October, when he underwent a cryotherapy procedure to freeze a troublesome nerve. Braun repeated that procedure in early June.This is the third straight season and the ninth time in 10 years that the Brewers have multiple All-Stars.
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