{"id":26696,"date":"2025-05-14T16:49:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:49:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/26696\/"},"modified":"2025-05-14T16:49:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-14T16:49:10","slug":"game-thread-44-milwaukee-brewers-20-23-cleveland-guardians-25-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/26696\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread #44: Milwaukee Brewers (20-23) @ Cleveland Guardians (25-17)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first two games against the defending AL Central champs, the Cleveland Guardians<\/a>, haven\u2019t gone as smoothly as the Brewers<\/a> might like. MIlwaukee now hasn\u2019t scored in nineteen innings (dating back to the eighth inning of their 4-2 win<\/a> over the Rays on Sunday).<\/p>\n

At least today the Crew has a new reason to be excited independent of the bats. Righty Logan Henderson, the Brewers\u2019 no. 12 prospect<\/a>, got the call-up from Triple A-Nashville and will make his second career start against Cleveland. Reliever Bryan Hudson, who walked in a run against the Guardians on Monday, will be optioned to Nashville in a corresponding move.<\/p>\n

Henderson will get another chance at proving he\u2019s here to stay with the big club. He went six strong innings in his only appearance as a Brewer, a 14-1 victory over the A\u2019s, giving up just three hits and a single earned run. Henderson doesn\u2019t have overwhelming stuff, as he\u2019s basically a two pitch pitcher (four-seamer and changeup<\/a>), but he looked pretty darn good against the Athletics. Pitching for the Guardians will be Gavin Williams<\/a> (3-2, 4.38 ERA).<\/p>\n

Hopefully Henderson can get even half of the run support he got against the last time around. Pat Murphy, who shook the lineup up a bit yesterday<\/a>, is doing things differently again today. Apparently, the Brewers had a long talk about their recent offensive woes after last night\u2019s loss. Maybe that\u2019ll light a fire under the struggling offense.<\/p>\n

Sal Frelick, who didn\u2019t start yesterday, will hit leadoff again. He is now just 2 for his last 15<\/a>. He\u2019s followed by Jackson Chourio, who has been an offensive bright spot over the last couple series. Chourio is now 3-for-8 in the Guardians series and homered in the penultimate matchup of the Rays series. <\/p>\n

Christian Yelich, who has the hardest-hit base hit (112.5 MPH<\/a>) of the series for the Brewers, will hit third. Yeli went 0-for-4 yesterday. He\u2019s followed by Contreras, then Turang, then Bauers. <\/p>\n

Andruw Monasterio will start again, this time at shortstop in favor of Joey Ortiz. Ortiz briefly appeared to be breaking out of his slump with a couple hits (one home run) and some hard contact against the Rays. He went 0-for-3 yesterday and will now sit for the second time in the last three games. Monasterio\u2019s done a good job of getting on base (3 walks in 6 plate appearances), but has yet to record a hit with the Brewers in 2025.<\/p>\n

In unrelated news, pitcher DL Hall<\/a> has been moved up from the Arizona Complex League to Triple-A to finish rehabbing a left lat strain. Hall is currently on the 60-day IL retroactive to March 5th.<\/p>\n

First pitch today is at 12:10 p.m. on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network. Full lineups for both teams are below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The first two games against the defending AL Central champs, the Cleveland Guardians, haven\u2019t gone as smoothly as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2380],"tags":[2229,5,3219,136,135,51,2565,3220,181,14,538,843,3221,4514,3527,4,2412],"class_list":{"0":"post-26696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-ball","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brew","11":"tag-brewers","12":"tag-cleveland","13":"tag-cleveland-guardians","14":"tag-clevelandguardians","15":"tag-crew","16":"tag-front-page","17":"tag-game","18":"tag-guardians","19":"tag-milwaukee","20":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-game-threads","21":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-news","22":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-scores-standings","23":"tag-mlb","24":"tag-thread"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114507217045991981","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}