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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (24-17, second in the NL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins<\/a> (20-24, third in the AL Central)<\/p>\n

Minneapolis; Friday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: TBD; Twins: Joe Ryan<\/a> (2-3, 3.43 ERA, 1.03 WHIP, 45 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Minnesota Twins host the Milwaukee Brewers to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n

Minnesota has a 20-24 record overall and a 12-11 record at home. The Twins have a 14-6 record in games when they scored five or more runs.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has a 24-17 record overall and a 9-8 record in road games. Brewers pitchers have a collective 3.35 ERA, which ranks second in the NL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Friday is the first meeting of the season between the two teams.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Byron Buxton<\/a> has seven doubles, a triple, 15 home runs and 23 RBIs for the Twins. Ryan Jeffers<\/a> is 10 for 34 with four doubles, three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jake Bauers<\/a> has eight doubles, six home runs and 21 RBIs for the Brewers. Brice Turang<\/a> is 12 for 38 with two doubles and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 6-4, .243 batting average, 4.45 ERA, outscored opponents by one run<\/p>\n

Brewers: 7-3, .249 batting average, 2.43 ERA, outscored opponents by 17 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Twins: Byron Buxton: day-to-day (hip), Cody Laweryson<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Taj Bradley<\/a>: 15-Day IL (pectoral), Cole Sands<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Garrett Acton: 15-Day IL (shoulder), David Festa<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Mick Abel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Pablo Lopez<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Brewers: Brandon Lockridge<\/a>: 10-Day IL (knee), Quinn Priester: 15-Day IL (wrist), Jared Koenig<\/a>: 15-Day IL (elbow), Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: 15-Day IL (arm), Angel Zerpa: 15-Day IL (forearm), Rob Zastryzny: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Akil Baddoo: 60-Day IL (quadricep)<\/p>\n

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers (24-17, second in the NL Central) vs. Minnesota Twins (20-24, third in the AL Central) Minneapolis;…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":696837,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,868,127,3800,2223,43253,9707,3916,75686,4364,7881,1455,19,5158,59,822,60,3190,4,1997,1252,763,148],"class_list":{"0":"post-699454","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-brandon-lockridge","10":"tag-brandon-woodruff","11":"tag-brice-turang","12":"tag-byron-buxton","13":"tag-cody-laweryson","14":"tag-cole-sands","15":"tag-david-festa","16":"tag-event_preview","17":"tag-jake-bauers","18":"tag-jared-koenig","19":"tag-joe-ryan","20":"tag-major-league-baseball","21":"tag-mick-abel","22":"tag-milwaukee-brewers","23":"tag-minnesota","24":"tag-minnesota-twins","25":"tag-minnesotatwins","26":"tag-mlb","27":"tag-pablo-lopez","28":"tag-ryan-jeffers","29":"tag-taj-bradley","30":"tag-twins"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116577683602771604","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699454","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=699454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699454\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/696837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}