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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (76-48, first in the NL Central) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers<\/a> (74-50, first in the NL West)<\/p>\n

Los Angeles; Sunday, 4:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Logan Henderson<\/a> (6-2, 2.88 ERA, 0.91 WHIP, 69 strikeouts); Dodgers: Tarik Skubal<\/a> (7-6, 2.93 ERA, 0.93 WHIP, 128 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Dodgers -183, Brewers +151; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers bring a 2-1 lead into the next game of the series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles has a 37-25 record at home and a 74-50 record overall. The Dodgers have a 31-9 record in games when they hit at least two home runs.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee has gone 35-26 on the road and 76-48 overall. The Brewers have a 50-8 record in games when they scored at least five runs.<\/p>\n

Sunday’s game is the seventh time these teams match up this season. The season series is tied 3-3.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Shohei Ohtani<\/a> leads the Dodgers with 27 home runs while slugging .542. Mookie Betts<\/a> is 12 for 35 with two doubles, two home runs and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

Brice Turang<\/a> has 16 home runs, 66 walks and 76 RBIs while hitting .268 for the Brewers. Andrew Vaughn<\/a> is 9 for 32 with a double and four RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Dodgers: 5-5, .233 batting average, 3.43 ERA, outscored by one run<\/p>\n

Brewers: 5-5, .215 batting average, 4.14 ERA, outscored by six runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Dodgers: Will Klein: 15-Day IL (elbow), Jake Cousins<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Blake Treinen<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tyler Glasnow: 60-Day IL (back), Brock Stewart<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Dalton Rushing<\/a>: 10-Day IL (arm), Bobby Miller<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Gavin Stone<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Kris Bubic: 60-Day IL (elbow), Ben Casparius<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Will Smith: 60-Day IL (neck), Brusdar Graterol: 60-Day IL (shoulder)<\/p>\n

Brewers: Brice Turang: day-to-day (knee), JoJo Romero: 15-Day IL (appendix), Joel Kuhnel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Abner Uribe: 15-Day IL (forearm), Brian Fitzpatrick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), Sal Frelick<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), Cooper Pratt<\/a>: 10-Day IL (hamstring), Rob Zastryzny: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Woodruff<\/a>: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Quinn Priester: 60-Day IL (wrist), Angel Zerpa: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers (76-48, first in the NL Central) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (74-50, first in the NL West)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2406],"tags":[1749,5,1134,1692,1522,127,60253,3800,6440,25711,10900,39,75686,1523,2283,29620,1165,4332,4333,10679,774,57,3224,4331,19,59,4,1526,312,468,382],"class_list":["post-780101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-baseball","tag-ben-casparius","tag-blake-treinen","tag-bobby-miller","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-brice-turang","tag-brock-stewart","tag-cooper-pratt","tag-dalton-rushing","tag-dodgers","tag-event_preview","tag-gavin-stone","tag-jake-cousins","tag-joel-kuhnel","tag-la","tag-la-dodgers","tag-ladodgers","tag-logan-henderson","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-dodgers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangelesdodgers","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-mookie-betts","tag-sal-frelick","tag-shohei-ohtani","tag-tarik-skubal"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117104420045294852","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780101","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=780101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/778380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}