{"id":51705,"date":"2025-05-24T18:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/51705\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T18:16:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T18:16:22","slug":"game-thread-53-milwaukee-brewers-25-27-pittsburgh-pirates-18-34","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/51705\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread #53: Milwaukee Brewers (25-27) @ Pittsburgh Pirates (18-34)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night\u2019s Brewers<\/a> game was frustrating, if only because the Brewers looked to be in position to still scrape out a win despite not playing their best baseball at times. You can find Paul\u2019s full recap of last night\u2019s game here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Today\u2019s matchup, the third in a four-game set, pits Pittsburgh\u2019s Mitch Keller against Milwaukee\u2019s Quinn Priester. Keller takes a 3.88 ERA into today\u2019s game. His last outing was pretty representative of how the season\u2019s gone for Keller \u2014 six strong innings, one earned run, and the loss. Keller is just 1-6 through ten starts this season.<\/p>\n

Priester sports somewhat respectable \u2014 if not impressive \u2014 numbers this season (4.66 ERA, 1.47 WHIP) . It\u2019s been a tale of two Priesters since the Brewers acquired him from the Boston Red Sox. The righty has sandwiched two pretty bad outings in between six strong starts. He\u2019s had six games with three or less earned runs allowed (five with two or less allowed), but has allowed an average of six runs (in less than five innings) in his other two outings. <\/p>\n

Priester has now allowed just five total runs in his last three starts, which should bode well for today\u2019s game.<\/p>\n

As for the lineup, Pat Murphy is sticking with yesterday\u2019s configuration. The one exception is the nine slot, with Joey Ortiz at shortstop in place of Andruw Monasterio. Ortiz hit his second home run of the season in his last start, the first game of the Pirates series. He\u2019s been seeing the ball a little better as of late, although it hasn\u2019t always translated to the box score.<\/p>\n

Jackson Chourio now has two hits in each of his last three games. More importantly, he\u2019s walked three (!!) times in the last four games, bringing his season walk total to a whopping seven. He\u2019s followed by William Contreras, who hit what would have been the game-winning home run last night.<\/p>\n

Christian Yelich, who\u2019d previously been pretty abysmal in the month of May, now has two hits in each game this series. His hard-hit <\/a>and launch angle<\/a> stats are down from where they\u2019ve been in his career as a Brewer, but he\u2019s been driving the ball against the Pirates. Yelich famously starts slow, so hopefully the best is yet to come.<\/p>\n

Rhys Hoskins went 2-for-3 with a walk and an RBI yesterday. Hoskins has been the Brewers\u2019 best hitter thus far this season, hitting .299 with a .891 OPS.<\/p>\n

First pitch is slated for 3:05 p.m. on FanDuel Sports Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network. Full lineups for both teams are below:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Last night\u2019s Brewers game was frustrating, if only because the Brewers looked to be in position to still…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51706,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2229,5,3219,136,3220,181,14,843,59,4516,3221,3527,4280,4,10,776,2412],"class_list":{"0":"post-51705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-milwaukee-brewers","8":"tag-ball","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brew","11":"tag-brewers","12":"tag-crew","13":"tag-front-page","14":"tag-game","15":"tag-milwaukee","16":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","17":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-commentary-analysis","18":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-game-threads","19":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-scores-standings","20":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","21":"tag-mlb","22":"tag-pirates","23":"tag-pittsburgh","24":"tag-thread"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114564182189804833","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51705","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=51705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}