{"id":804337,"date":"2026-09-13T23:45:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/804337\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T23:45:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T23:45:14","slug":"brewers-week-in-review-a-statement-of-a-homestand-brewers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/804337\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers Week in Review: A Statement of a Homestand &#8211; Brewers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tWeekly Snapshot:<br \/>Record Last Week: 5-1 (Overall: 93-57)<br \/>Runs Scored Last Week:\u00a052<br \/>Runs Surrendered Last Week:\u00a025<br \/>Standing: 1st in NL Central\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tGame 145 (9\/07) | MIL 4, CHC 3<br \/>Game 146 (9\/08) | MIL 4, CHC 3<br \/>Game 147 (9\/09) | MIL 8, CHC 6<br \/>Game 148 (9\/11) | MIL 20, CIN 0<br \/>Game 149 (9\/12) | MIL 13, CIN 9<br \/>Game 150 (9\/13) | CIN 4, MIL 3\n<\/p>\n<p>\tGame 145 | Brewers 4, Cubs 3<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tMIL Starter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gassero01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Gasser<\/a> (4.2 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, ER, 5 K)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tTop Performers:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/chourja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jackson Chourio<\/a> (H, 2 RBI)<br \/>The week started with the final regular-season meetings against the Cubs. The first matchup in that set saw Robert Gasser match up with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=boydma01,boyd--002mat&amp;search=Matthew+Boyd&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matthew Boyd<\/a> at American Family Field. The Cubs twirler was dominant early, getting through seven innings of one-run ball. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/counscr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Craig Counsell<\/a> rolled Boyd back out for the eighth\u2014a decision that would be costly, as Boyd left without recording an out in the frame. Instead, he left two runners on base, whom the Brewers cashed in against the Chicago bullpen. The Crew held on to win from there, thanks in no small part to great outfield defense.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/l\/laralu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Luis Lara<\/a>\u2019s leaping grab (+2.5 WP%)\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\tGame 146 | Brewers 4, Cubs 3<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tMIL Starter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/misioja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> (6.1 IP, 4 H, 2 BB, ER, 9 K)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tTop Performers:<br \/>Jackson Chourio (4 H, 2B, HR, 2 RBI)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/t\/turanbr02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brice Turang<\/a> (3 H, BB, 2B, RBI)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/halldl01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">DL Hall<\/a> (1.2 IP, 0 H, BB, 0 ER, K)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tJacob Misiorowski faced the Cubs for a second consecutive week on Tuesday, and redeemed himself after a rocky outing against Chicago at Wrigley Field. The Brewers&#8217; bats were quiet outside of Brice Turang and Jackson Chourio, though, and despite Misiorowski\u2019s strong outing, Chicago carried a 3-1 lead into the 9th. Chicago\u2019s closer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=webbja01,webb--009jac,webb--014jac&amp;search=Jacob+Webb&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jacob Webb<\/a> recorded the first two outs of that frame, but a pinch-hit single from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/y\/yelicch01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christian Yelich<\/a> and a game-tying home run from Jackson Chourio sent the game to the 10th, where Luis Lara walked the contest off with a single.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tJackson Chourio\u2019s game-tying home run (+49.0 WP%)\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\tGame 147 | Brewers 8, Cubs 6<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tMIL Starter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/hendelo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Logan Henderson<\/a> (5.0 IP, 2 H, BB, 1 R, 6 K)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tTop Performers:<br \/>Jackson Chourio (3 H, HR, 2 RBI)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/c\/contrwi02.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">William Contreras<\/a> (2 H, HR, 3 RBI)<br \/>Christian Yelich (H, HR, 3 RBI)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tThe Brewers completed their second sweep of the Cubs in 2026 on Wednesday, jumping all over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/g\/gausmke01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Gausman<\/a>. Meanwhile, Logan Henderson was brilliant, only allowing an unearned run in his five innings of work. The large lead would evaporate late, as a Brandon Sporat implosion allowed the Cubs to bring the tying run to the plate in the 9th, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/u\/uribeab01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Abner Uribe<\/a> mopped up the mess and closed out the game.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tYeli\u2019s 3-run bomb (+24.1 WP%)\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\tGame 148 | Brewers 20, Reds 0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tMIL Starter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/m\/maydu01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dustin May<\/a> (6.0 IP, 2 H, BB, 0 ER, 6 K)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tTop Performers:<br \/>Jackson Chourio (4 H, 2 2B, 2 RBI)<br \/>Brice Turang (3 H, BB, HR, 4 RBI)<br \/>William Contreras (2 H, HR, 6 RBI)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tAfter an off day on Thursday, the Reds were in town on Friday with Dustin May on the slab to oppose them. May was brilliant, throwing six scoreless innings, but it was the Brewers&#8217; bats who stole headlines by hanging 20 runs on the Reds, highlighted by another 4-hit day from Chourio and six RBIs from William Contreras. With the win, Milwaukee secured their eighth playoff berth in nine years\u2014no small feat, but not the prize on which this club is now focused.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tLuis Lara\u2019s home run robbery (+0.1 WP%)\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\tGame 149 | Brewers 13, Reds 9<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tMIL Starter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/d\/drohash01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Shane Drohan<\/a> (3.2 IP, 5 H, 2 BB, 5 ER, 4 K)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tTop Performers:<br \/>Garett Mitchell (4 H, 2B, HR, 4 RBI)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/p\/prattco01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cooper Pratt<\/a> (3 H, 2B, 3 RBI)<br \/>William Contreras (H, 2 BB, HR, 3 RBI)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tThe bats were not dormant after Friday\u2019s 20-run outburst, as the Brewers put up 13 runs in Saturday\u2019s contest en route to a 13-9 win. Those combined 33 runs over two days totaled a franchise record for any two-game stretch, although that fact did hide poor outings from both Shane Drohan and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/h\/harriky01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Kyle Harrison<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tWilliam Contreras\u2019 3-run home run (+28.9 WP%)\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>\tGame 150 | Reds 4, Brewers 3<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tMIL Starter: Robert Gasser (5.0 IP, 3 H, 2 BB, ER, 5 K)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tTop Performers:<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/o\/ortizjo06.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Joey Ortiz<\/a> (H, HR, 2 RBI)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/bauerja01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jake Bauers<\/a> (H, HR, RBI)<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/r\/romerjo01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">JoJo Romero<\/a> (1.2 IP, 0 H, 0 BB, 0 ER, K)\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/b\/burnsch01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chase Burns<\/a> stood in the way of a Brewers sweep on Sunday, and despite a big swings from Jake Bauers and Joey Ortiz, the Reds were able to outlast Gasser and the Brewers bullpen, sneaking out a 4-3 win on Sunday.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tJoey Ortiz&#8217;s 2-run homer (+17.7 WP%)\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tTransactions:\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\t09\/10\/26 &#8211; Optioned RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/sproabr01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brandon Sproat<\/a> to AAA Nashville.<br \/>09\/10\/26 &#8211; Recalled RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/s\/stallga01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Garrett Stallings<\/a> from AAA Nashville.<br \/>09\/09\/26 &#8211; Sent LHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/players\/z\/zastrro01.shtml?utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rob Zastryzny<\/a> on a rehab assignment to AAA Nashville.<br \/>09\/07\/26 &#8211; Placed RHP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseball-reference.com\/search\/search.fcgi?pid=andergr01,anders008gra,anders007gra&amp;search=Grant+Anderson&amp;utm_medium=linker&amp;utm_source=brewerfanatic.com&amp;utm_campaign=2026-09-13_br\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Grant Anderson<\/a> on the 15-day injured list with right bicep inflammation.<br \/>09\/07\/26 &#8211; Recalled RHP Brandon Sproat from AAA Nashville.\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tLooking Ahead:\n<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n\tTuesday, 9\/15 &#8211; Brewers @ Pirates &#8211; 5:40 PM CDT<br \/>Wednesday, 9\/16 &#8211; Brewers @ Pirates &#8211; 5:40 PM CDT<br \/>Thursday, 9\/17 &#8211; Brewers @ Pirates &#8211; 11:35 AM CDT<br \/>Friday, 9\/18 &#8211; Brewers @ Orioles &#8211; 6:05 PM CDT<br \/>Saturday, 9\/19 &#8211; Brewers @ Orioles &#8211; 3:05 PM CDT<br \/>Sunday, 9\/20 &#8211; Brewers @ Orioles &#8211; 6:20 PM CDT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Weekly Snapshot:Record Last Week: 5-1 (Overall: 93-57)Runs Scored Last Week:\u00a052Runs Surrendered Last Week:\u00a025Standing: 1st in NL Central Game&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":804338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,3875,11714,57928,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":["post-804337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-luis-lara","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117266397518385728","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804337","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=804337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/804338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}