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Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (81-50, first in the NL Central) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (59-72, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

New York; Tuesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Kyle Harrison<\/a> (10-3, 2.84 ERA, 1.11 WHIP, 122 strikeouts); Mets: Zach Thornton<\/a> (3-4, 3.04 ERA, 1.15 WHIP, 36 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Brewers -162, Mets +134; over\/under is 7 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets host the Milwaukee Brewers to open a three-game series.<\/p>\n

New York is 30-35 at home and 59-72 overall. The Mets have hit 161 total home runs to rank ninth in MLB<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

Milwaukee is 36-26 on the road and 81-50 overall. Brewers hitters have a collective .337 on-base percentage, the second-ranked percentage in the NL.<\/p>\n

The matchup Tuesday is the fourth time these teams meet this season.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Carson Benge<\/a> has 17 doubles, three triples, 16 home runs and 53 RBIs while hitting .278 for the Mets. Jared Young<\/a> is 12 for 36 with four doubles and a home run over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Jackson Chourio<\/a> has a .280 batting average to lead the Brewers, and has 22 doubles and 17 home runs. William Contreras<\/a> is 13 for 39 with a home run and six RBIs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 6-4, .247 batting average, 3.51 ERA, outscored opponents by four runs<\/p>\n

Brewers: 7-3, .288 batting average, 2.63 ERA, outscored opponents by 31 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), Mark Vientos: 10-Day IL (hand), Cionel Perez<\/a>: 15-Day IL (forearm), Devin Williams<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Juan Soto<\/a>: 10-Day IL (calf), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n

Brewers: Joel Kuhnel<\/a>: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Sal Frelick<\/a>: 10-Day IL (shoulder), JoJo Romero: 15-Day IL (appendix), Abner Uribe: 15-Day IL (forearm), Brian Fitzpatrick<\/a>: 60-Day IL (elbow), 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 (81-50, first in the NL Central) vs. New York Mets (59-72, fifth in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":778380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,127,136,60253,5805,8754,83,75686,3875,15622,29620,120,134,25115,2168,19,843,59,4280,4,61,312,3801,93940],"class_list":["post-787923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brewers","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-carson-benge","tag-cionel-perez","tag-devin-williams","tag-event_preview","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jared-young","tag-joel-kuhnel","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-kyle-harrison","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb","tag-new-york-mets","tag-sal-frelick","tag-william-contreras","tag-zac-thornton"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117155628505822583","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787923","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=787923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787923\/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=787923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}