"Brewers manager Ken Macha made no decision Wednesday to remove Trevor Hoffman as his closer.

Macha did decide to send Hoffman to the repair shop for a few days, however.

Delaying a decision on the struggling all-time saves leader, Macha said Hoffman would spend a couple of days working with pitching coach Rick Peterson on his mechanics. During that period, Macha said, Hoffman would not pitch in games at all, much less the ninth inning.

"We'll see how things go," said Macha, who met for several minutes in his office with Peterson and Hoffman to discuss the situation. "We'll re-evaluate on Friday."

Considering Hoffman's immense dedication to his craft and detailed preparation to pitching, it stretches the imagination that he could get so far out of whack with his delivery. But that's the Brewers' story and they're sticking with it.

"Rick wants to do a couple of sessions with him," said Macha. "Tomorrow, he'll go through this routine with Rick. Rick got some information from our scouting department on the 'pitch f/x' (a scouting analysis). He's been talking to Trevor that his arm angle is a little too high.

"Rick had addressed that about two weeks ago."

Why the problem wasn't corrected then, Macha didn't say.

Because Hoffman has struggled throughout the season, blowing five of 10 save opportunities and compiling a 13.15 ERA with seven homers allowed, Peterson said he has been looking "at a lot of different things." The problem came to a head Tuesday in Cincinnati when Hoffman was tattooed for three runs in the bottom of the ninth, failing to retire any of the five hitters he faced in blowing a 4-2 lead.

"It's a constant thing," said Peterson, "trying to make adjustments. The unfortunate thing is a reliever doesn't get a lot of practice time (because of staying available to pitch in games). When a hitter struggles, he takes more batting practice.

"We have some new data and I looked at it this morning. There was horizontal movement, vertical movement, release points. We're able to look at certain things that you were never able to look at before."