The Brewers are back in action today after Thursday’s day off. They’ll hope that day off didn’t interrupt their considerable momentum, as Milwaukee won all six games of their most recent road trip, three games in Washington over the weekend and three in Atlanta earlier this week. The Mets, in contrast, come in as losers of eight of their last nine after getting swept at home by the Guardians earlier this week.

It’s an excellent pitching matchup tonight between two very good pitchers who have dealt with injury problems over the past two seasons. For the Brewers, Brandon Woodruff takes the mound for his sixth start since his return from shoulder surgery that cost him all of 2024 and the first half of 2025. The Mets will counter with Kodai Senga, who made only one start in 2024 sandwiched between shoulder and calf injuries. He has been healthier this season but did miss a month, with no starts between June 12 and July 11.

The left-handed Senga has been effective when on the mound, not only this season but in all three seasons of his career. He was an All-Star and the runner-up in Rookie of the Year voting in 2023, and this year the 32-year-old has gone 7-3 with a 2.31 ERA (170 ERA+) in 17 starts. That number does, however, have some noise: Senga’s FIP is 3.89, and while he did have a significantly higher FIP than his ERA in his rookie season, the gap wasn’t nearly as large as it is in 2025. Despite the good numbers, Senga’s strikeout-to-walk ratio is just 1.95, as he is striking out only 8.6 batters per nine (not bad, not great) and walking 4.4 per nine (not good).

Woodruff, on the other hand, has been nothing but fantastic in five starts since making his return. The Brewers have won all five of those games, and Woodruff hasn’t allowed more than two runs in any of them; he’s also putting up wild peripherals with 37 strikeouts to just four walks in 28 1/3 innings. Regression is likely for Woodruff at some point, but it’s also true that he is an excellent pitcher, and while there’s a little luck here, there’s no reason to think that Woodruff isn’t doing anything he should be incapable of, even if his FIP (3.32) is a run higher than his ERA (2.22).

There will be a new Brewer in uniform tonight, as the team has activated trade-deadline pickup Shelby Miller from the IL after one rehab appearance at Triple-A Nashville. Miller hasn’t pitched in a major league game since July 5, but he was closing games (successfully) for the Diamondbacks and it will be interesting to see where he slots into Pat Murphy’s bullpen plan.

Milwaukee has also brought Tobias Myers back into the fold and placed Logan Henderson on the injured list with what they’re calling “elbow inflammation.” It’s possible that this, like Jacob Misiorowski’s current IL stint, is more a move by the front office to force a limit on Henderson’s innings late in the season. But “elbow inflammation” in the throwing arm is much more concerning than “tibia contusion,” and we’ll await word on the severity of Henderson’s soreness. Myers is now listed as tomorrow’s starter, and suddenly the depth that made the Brewers comfortable trading Nestor Cortes at the trade deadline is looking like an illusion. (If you’re wondering why this start is going to Myers and not Chad Patrick, it’s because Patrick pitched on Wednesday in Nashville.)

One more small roster note: the Brewers signed reliever Julian Merryweather to a minor league deal today. He’d been pitching in the Mets system after being designated for assignment earlier this season by the Cubs. Merryweather is 33, and has a 4.72 in 158 1/3 career innings (152 games, five starts) spread across the last six seasons. He was quite good for the Cubs in 2023, when he had a 3.38 ERA and 3.52 FIP in 72 innings, but has not found that success in any other season.

Sal Frelick returns to the top of the lineup tonight, and we see one more interesting twist: Isaac Collins is batting third, Jackson Chourio’s old spot against lefties. Nothing particularly surprising in the Mets’ lineup tonight, unless you forgot that they acquired Cedric Mullins at the trade deadline.

First pitch is at 7:10 p.m. on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network.