PITTSBURGH – The Milwaukee Brewers will try for a series sweep on Sunday afternoon, Sept. 7 as they play the Pittsburgh Pirates for the final time in 2025 at PNC Park.
In a battle of flamethrowing rookie right-handers, Jacob Misiorowski (4-2, 4.50) starts for the Brewers while Bubba Chandler (2-0, 2.25) goes for the Pirates.
Christian Yelich sat out for a fifth straight game with his sore lower back.
“Status quo,” he said.
The Miz settles in
No doubt feeling good with that enormous lead on the board behind him, Misiorowski went on to retire 16 of 17 batters after Pittsburgh got onto the board in the second, including 13 straight through the sevenh with six strikeouts in that span.
Three of those whiffs came in the fourth, when Misiorowski missed throwing an immaculate inning – three strikeouts on nine pitches – by one pitch when Joey Bart took a ball on the eighth pitch.
Milwaukee tacked another run onto its lead in the seventh on a bases-loaded Danny Jansen groundout, making it a 10-1 game.
Misiorowski then took the mound for the bottom half in something of a mild surprise.
He struck out the final two batters he faced, capping his day by winning a 10-pitch battle with Joey Bart with a strikeout. His penulatimate pitch? A 99.6-mph four-seam fastball.
He scattered three hits, the lone run and two walks with eight strikeouts. His 108 pitches was far and away a career high, and tied Freddy Peralta (twice) for the most thrown by a Brewers pitcher this season.
Brewers keep the pressure on Chandler
Jake Bauers drew a leadoff walk in the third, Andrew Vaughn singled and then Blake Perkins doubled in Bauers.
Jansen walked, then Joey Ortiz’s hustle down the line led to a successful Milwaukee challenge of what would have been an inning-ending double play.
With Perkins on third, Ortiz stole second and then both came in to score on Brice Turang’s two-out single to right to chase Chandler, who was tagged for nine hits, nine runs and three walks with three strikeouts over 68 pitches.
Teams exchange scores in the second
Milwaukee tacked on a fifth run as Jansen doubled to start the second, Ortiz singled him to third to snap an 0-for-15 skid and a wild pitch by Chandler allowed Jansen to scamper home.
A sixth potential tally was cut down at the plate when Ortiz tried scoring on a grounder to first baseman Spencer Horwitz with the infield in.
Andrew McCutchen doubled to open the bottom of the frame and three batters later came in to score on a Liover Peguero single, getting the Pirates on the board.
Brewers break out the bats against Bubba
What a start the Brewers got out to against baseball’s No. 15 overall prospect.
Turang and Isaac Collins opened with singles, William Contreras walked to load the bases and Bauers ripped a two-run double down the first-base line for his fifth and sixth runs batted in already in the series.
A Vaughn single then made it 3-0, and Caleb Durbin’s double-play grounder upped Milwaukee’s advantage to 4-0.
Chandler needed 27 pitches in all to navigate the first inning.
Misiorowski didn’t get off to the greatest of starts, either, as he walked the first two batters he faced. But he followed up with a fielder’s choice and then a 5-4-3 double play to emerge from the jam unscathed.
What time is the Brewers game today?
Time: 12:35 p.m. CT.
What channel is the Brewers game on today?
TV channel: FanDuel Sports Wisconsin.
Brewers record 2025
88-55 (best in the major leagues, 6 ½-game lead in the National League Central Division).
Brewers lineupBrice Turang 2BIsaac Collins LFWilliam Contreras DHJake Bauers RFAndrew Vaughn 1BCaleb Durbin 3BBlake Perkins CFDanny Jansen CJoey Ortiz SSPirates lineupJared Triolo 3BSpencer Horwitz 1BBryan Reynolds RFNick Gonzales 2BAndrew McCutchen DHOneil Cruz CFJoey Bart CLiover Peguero SSJi Hwan Bae LFBrewers schedule
Brewers at Rangers, Sept. 8, 7:05 p.m.: Milwaukee LHP José Quintana (11-5, 3.72) vs. Texas LHP Jacob Latz (1-0, 3.15). TV – FanDuel Sports Wisconsin. Radio – AM-620 WTMJ.
Brewers at Rangers, Sept. 9, 7:05 p.m.: Milwaukee TBA vs. Texas RHP Jack Leiter (9-8, 3.74). TV – FanDuel Sports Wisconsin, FOX 6. Radio – AM-620 WTMJ.
Brewers at Rangers, Sept. 10, 1:35 p.m.: Milwaukee RHP Freddy Peralta (16-5, 2.50) vs. Texas RHP Merrill Kelly (11-7, 3.16). TV – FanDuel Sports Wisconsin. Radio – AM-620 WTMJ.