{"id":6832,"date":"2025-05-07T03:03:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:03:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/6832\/"},"modified":"2025-05-07T03:03:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T03:03:13","slug":"game-thread-35-milwaukee-brewers-16-18-vs-chicago-cubs-21-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/6832\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread #35: Milwaukee Brewers (16-18) vs. Chicago Cubs (21-13)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It has been a rough three days for Brewers<\/a> fans, as a disappointing (if acceptable) loss to the lowly White Sox on Thursday was followed by two utter no-shows in the biggest games of the season so far. The Brewers\u2019 offense has been missing in action since the first two games of the series on the South Side, and a barrage of Cubs<\/a> homers in the last two games has put the Brewers behind early in both.<\/p>\n

If the team and its fans were going to use this series as a measuring stick, the results have been clear: the Cubs, at this moment, are what the Brewers thought they would be, only with the \u201cgo-for-it\u201d addition of Kyle Tucker and the big-market advantage of being able to sign Shota Imanaga. <\/p>\n

It will be Imanaga on the hill for the Cubs today as they go for the sweep, facing off against the Brewers\u2019 number one, Freddy Peralta. A sign of a great ace is the ability to end a slide, and that\u2019s what Milwaukee will be asking Peralta to do this afternoon.<\/p>\n

Though he has flashed the tendency to play with his food, which has been so frustrating to Brewers\u2019 fans in the past, Peralta has had an undeniably good season to this point. Through seven starts, Peralta holds a 2.52 ERA in 39 1\u20443 innings. His walks and strikeouts are basically in line with what he\u2019s done his whole career, though the strikeouts are a touch lower \u2014 the 9.4 per nine mark he\u2019s currently posting would be the lowest of his career, though not by a dramatic amount. The optimist would say that this is a change in approach in which he\u2019s trying to induce weaker contact and get out of at-bats a bit sooner; that same optimist would point to his career-low BABIP and say that it\u2019s working. The pessimist would say that he\u2019s lost a little bit on his stuff, and the low BABIP is an indicator of coming regression.<\/p>\n

On the other side, Imanaga has thrown essentially the exact same amount as Freddy, but his strikeouts are low (just 6.9 per nine innings compared to 9.0 last season), and his walk rate has doubled. The results remain \u2014 his 2.77 ERA is better than last year \u2014 but his high FIP (4.85) reflects the step backward in peripherals. The sample size remains very small, but if there\u2019s any shakiness in those underlying numbers, the Brewers will need to look to capitalize.<\/p>\n

Still looking to find a combination that will get results, Pat Murphy has again shuffled the struggling lineup. For the second night in a row, Jackson Chourio will lead off, but it\u2019ll be left fielder Isaac Collins batting behind him and Brice Turang, who hit second yesterday, back to the number nine spot in the order. <\/p>\n

First pitch today is at 1:10 p.m. on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It has been a rough three days for Brewers fans, as a disappointing (if acceptable) loss to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[2229,5,3219,136,138,3220,161,181,14,843,59,4516,3221,4280,4,2412,2411],"class_list":{"0":"post-6832","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-chicago","13":"tag-crew","14":"tag-cubs","15":"tag-front-page","16":"tag-game","17":"tag-milwaukee","18":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","19":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-commentary-analysis","20":"tag-milwaukee-brewers-game-threads","21":"tag-milwaukeebrewers","22":"tag-mlb","23":"tag-thread","24":"tag-vs"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/114464334323555875","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832","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=6832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}