Each time out, Quinn Priester is looking more and more like a keeper for the Milwaukee Brewers.

The young right-hander turned in yet another strong outing on Tuesday night, June 10, paving the way to a 4-1 victory over the Atlanta Braves at American Family Field.

Priester tied a season high with seven strikeouts over six innings, improving his record to 4-2 while lowering his ERA to 3.65 against a Braves lineup that can do serious damage.

“The kid has just been getting better and better,” manager Pat Murphy said. “It’s a credit to the front office for picking this kid out. I remember three weeks before we got him, Matt Arnold talking to me about, ‘Hey, this is a guy we want to go after.’

“They’d done their research, and it’s great to see it happen. When we got him, he wasn’t where he is today.”

Priester’s start was his first since May 24; he’d been used in a tandem with DL Hall opening his previous two games.

“Whatever role and whatever way my six innings or five innings is going to be thrown, I’m just ready to help the team out,” Priester said. “Certainly nice to start that one out and get a clean first and kind of roll through there.”

And while he didn’t generate ground balls at the exorbitant rate he had been coming in thanks to almost equal usage between his sinker, cutter and slider, Priester nevertheless kept a lid on the Braves by bearing down whenever the moment called for it.

Ronald Acuña Jr. singled off him in the first, third and fifth innings, with his hit in the fifth driving in Atlanta’s only run.

“Just kind of used what was there,” Priester said. “The cutter at the top was really good today; certainly not something I do a whole lot. I thought (William Contreras) did a phenomenal job of recognizing that early and it’s kind of giving me the confidence in that pitch when he kept calling it.

“Having that confidence in that pitch gave me some confidence and I was able to execute more often than not. Definitely didn’t get as many ground balls as we’re used to, but did a nice job.”

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Abner Uribe is on a roll

Taking the ball from Priester in the seventh, Abner Uribe ended up pitching two innings for the first time since Aug. 4, 2023.

It was another strong performance, too, as he allowed only an opposite-field double to Matt Olson in the seven batters he faced, giving Uribe 28 scoreless appearances in 32 outings as well as a team-high 17 holds.

Overall, Uribe is now 2-1 with a 1.39 ERA, WHIP of 1.11 and 42 strikeouts in 32 â…“ innings. He’s generating consistently weak contact with a mix that’s featured less sinker (51.3% coming into Tuesday compared to 64.3% in 2024) and more slider (47% vs. 34.5% in 2024).

“Abner has been really good,” said Murphy. “The stretch that he’s been on has been pretty special.”

It’s the type of stretch that makes one think to the future, and whether Uribe will once again be closing games like he did successfully in early 2024 before Trevor Megill eventually took over.

“The game gives me the confidence,” Uribe said. “My confidence is good right now. My mind’s good. I trust my body and everything I’m doing right now.”

Brewers with some rare slug

It’s been mostly station-to-station baseball for the offense of late, so the home runs by Jackson Chourio in the third inning and Jake Bauers in the sixth were a welcome sight.

The Bauers homer, which gave Milwaukee a 3-1 lead, was then followed by a Contreras double. That marked the first time since June 1 that the Brewers tallied multiple extra-base hits in the same inning.

“So far on this homestand it feels like we’ve been swinging the bats well,” Bauers said. “You look up at the scoreboard and the exit velos on a lot of them are 95-plus. Not a lot to show after that, but that just tells me we’re hitting the ball hard and it’s not falling our way right now.

“So tonight, for Chourio to hit the two-run homer to start us off and to get a little insurance behind us was big.”

For Bauers specifically to see the ball travel well out of the ballpark (434 feet) undoubtedly felt good considering the last time he drove one to straightaway center it was Cincinnati’s TJ Friedl robbing him of a homer to snap the Brewers’ eight-game winning streak.

“Trying not to think too much about results,” said Bauers, who got a rare start at designated hitter with Christian Yelich taking the night off. “But also, when you’re putting good at-bats together and putting good swings on balls and not having anything to show for it, it weighs on you a little bit.

“So, it was good to get that one to go.”

Bullpen shuffling

Milwaukee made a couple roster moves before the game, recalling right-handed reliever Easton McGee from Class AAA Nashville and optioning right-handed reliever Grant Anderson down.

Anderson, 1-2 with a 3.86 ERA in 28 appearances, allowed three runs in a 42-pitch outing Monday.

“He’s part of us. He’ll be back,” manager Pat Murphy said. “I guarantee that he’s a big part of us. We’re going to need him. It’s a great find, again, by the front office, finding these guys that nobody knows about necessarily or nobody’s counting on.

“This kid’s been great for us.”

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Time: 6:40 p.m.

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Brewers vs. Padres, 1:10 p.m. June 11. Milwaukee RHP Chad Patrick (3-5, 2.84) vs. Atlanta RHP Spencer Schwellenbach (4-4, 3.24). TV – FanDuel Sports Wisconsin. Radio – AM-620 WTMJ.