Top Pitching Performance of the Week
It wasn’t a great week for Brewers pitchers, but we’ll choose Quinn Priester here. Priester started Friday’s comfortable win over the Cardinals, and after 5 1/3 innings of two-run ball, he earned his 13th win of the year, extending his franchise record streak to 12 straight winning decisions. As Curt Hogg noted in the post below, the Brewers have also won 18 straight games in which Priester has pitched; the only longer streaks belong to Carl Hubbell and Roger Clemens, who between them have over 200 career bWAR.
Top Hitting Performance of the Week
Three Brewers had an OPS north of .970 while batting over a dozen times this week, but I’m going to leapfrog Jake Bauers and Jackson Chourio and go with Caleb Durbin. In 22 plate appearances this week Durbin went 8-for-19 with two doubles, a home run, and three walks. He also stole two bases, and in the tenth inning of Saturday’s thrilling victory, Durbin knocked in the tying run with an RBI double and then scored the winning run when Andruw Monasterio knocked him in.
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