{"id":703455,"date":"2026-05-19T22:12:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:12:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703455\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T22:12:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T22:12:17","slug":"game-thread-46-milwaukee-brewers-27-18-chicago-cubs-29-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/703455\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread #46: Milwaukee Brewers (27-18) @ Chicago Cubs (29-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers picked up a nice win<\/a> over the Cubs<\/a> yesterday in the first of a three-game series on Chicago<\/a>\u2019s north side. Today, they\u2019ll look to take the series, and to catch up to (and pass!) the Cubs in the standings.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the Brewers jumped out to a sizable early lead, Brandon Sproat<\/a> did enough to keep Chicago at bay despite some shakiness, and Shane Drohan<\/a> did the rest. (Drohan is good<\/a>.) Tonight in the second game of the series, the Brewers would figure to have a pitching advantage in a matchup between Jacob Misiorowski and Chicago\u2019s Ben Brown<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Brown, who is a 26-year-old right-hander, did not start the year in the Cubs\u2019 rotation. His first 12 appearances this year all came out of the bullpen, but with the injuries that the rotation is dealing with, he moved back into a starting role on May 8th. Since then, he\u2019s made two starts, and he\u2019s done everything the Cubs could ask. Both starts went four innings, and in those eight combined innings he\u2019s struck out ten, walked two, and allowed just one hit and no runs. The Cubs won both games, a 7-1 victory over the Rangers on May 8 and a 2-0 win over the Braves on the 14th. For the season, Brown has a sterling 1.60 ERA and 2.45 FIP in 33 2\/3 innings, but it\u2019s worth noting that last season, Brown had a 5.92 ERA in over 100 innings, so some regression is probably expected at some point or another.<\/p>\n

Misiorowski, of course, has planted himself firmly within the NL Cy Young race, and he\u2019s riding some serious momentum, having made two of the best starts of his young career his last two times out. Miz hasn\u2019t allowed a run since April 25, and he\u2019s currently riding an 18-inning scoreless streak. He\u2019s also leading baseball in strikeouts with 80; Cristopher S\u00e1nchez matched him with his stellar 13-strikeout shutout on Saturday, but he\u2019s made one more start than Misiorowski, and Miz will jump back into the sole lead tonight, assuming he strikes out at least one batter.<\/p>\n

The Brewers will operate with a Jackson Chourio<\/a> \u2013 Garrett Mitchell<\/a> \u2013 Sal Frelick<\/a> outfield from left to right tonight with Christian Yelich<\/a> as the designated hitter. Jake Bauers<\/a> is the first baseman, so Andrew Vaughn<\/a> will be a bench weapon tonight. William Contreras<\/a> is doing the catching, and David Hamilton<\/a> and Luis Rengifo<\/a> will man the left side of the infield. In game number 46, this is the 46th unique lineup that the Brewers have used this season.<\/p>\n

First pitch this evening is at 6:40 p.m. on Brewers TV and the Brewers Radio Network.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers picked up a nice win over the Cubs yesterday in the first of a three-game series…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703456,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[1749,5,734,6303,136,138,1301,161,17761,463,3875,11714,4364,2180,843,59,4280,4,312,18,44914,3801],"class_list":["post-703455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-baseball","tag-ben-brown","tag-brandon-sproat","tag-brewers","tag-chicago","tag-christian-yelich","tag-cubs","tag-david-hamilton","tag-garrett-mitchell","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-jake-bauers","tag-luis-rengifo","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-sal-frelick","tag-san-diego-padres","tag-shane-drohan","tag-william-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116603541487491518","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703455","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=703455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}