{"id":788732,"date":"2026-08-26T08:39:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/788732\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:39:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:39:19","slug":"new-york-mets-and-milwaukee-brewers-play-in-game-2-of-series-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/788732\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers play in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Milwaukee Brewers (81-51, first in the NL Central) vs. New York Mets (60-72, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n<p>New York; Wednesday, 7:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Dustin May (6-8, 4.57 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 118 strikeouts); Mets: Robert Stock (0-2, 5.40 ERA, 1.68 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Brewers -161, Mets +134; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets bring a 1-0 advantage into the latest game of the series against the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n<p>New York has a 60-72 record overall and a 31-35 record in home games. The Mets have a 44-18 record in games when they record eight or more hits.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee is 81-51 overall and 36-27 on the road. Brewers hitters are batting a collective .254, the third-best team batting average in MLB play.<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet Wednesday for the fifth time this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Bo Bichette has 21 doubles, two triples, 14 home runs and 66 RBIs while hitting .265 for the Mets. Carson Benge is 14 for 38 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>William Contreras has 21 doubles, a triple and 12 home runs for the Brewers. Jake Bauers is 10 for 32 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 7-3, .255 batting average, 3.02 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n<p>Brewers: 6-4, .284 batting average, 2.42 ERA, outscored opponents by 29 runs<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Mets: Mark Vientos: 10-Day IL (hand), Jorge Polanco: 10-Day IL (ankle), Justin Hagenman: 60-Day IL (rib), Cionel Perez: 15-Day IL (forearm), Devin Williams: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Juan Soto: 10-Day IL (calf), Reed Garrett: 60-Day IL (elbow), Tylor Megill: 60-Day IL (elbow)<\/p>\n<p>Brewers: Joel Kuhnel: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Cooper Pratt: day-to-day (lower body), JoJo Romero: 15-Day IL (appendix), Abner Uribe: 15-Day IL (forearm), Brian Fitzpatrick: 60-Day IL (elbow), Rob Zastryzny: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Brandon Woodruff: 60-Day IL (shoulder), Quinn Priester: 60-Day IL (wrist), Angel Zerpa: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a class=\"Link AnClick-LinkEnhancement\" data-gtm-enhancement-style=\"LinkEnhancementA\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers (81-51, first in the NL Central) vs. New York Mets (60-72, fifth in the NL East)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":784470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2396],"tags":[1110,28235,5,88,127,5805,8754,83,126,5163,4364,29620,8534,120,134,25115,228,101,59,4,256,1690,61,2548,4203,2248,9019,12324,10916,185,1326,3801],"class_list":["post-788732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-mets","tag-abner-uribe","tag-angel-zerpa","tag-baseball","tag-bo-bichette","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-carson-benge","tag-cionel-perez","tag-devin-williams","tag-dustin-may","tag-illinois","tag-jake-bauers","tag-joel-kuhnel","tag-jojo-romero","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-mark-vientos","tag-mets","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-mets","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkmets","tag-quinn-priester","tag-reed-garrett","tag-rob-zastryzny","tag-robert-stock","tag-sports","tag-tylor-megill","tag-william-contreras"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117160913386184343","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788732","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=788732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/784470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}