{"id":329139,"date":"2026-05-23T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329139\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T08:00:19","slug":"game-thread-48-milwaukee-brewers-29-18-vs-los-angeles-dodgers-31-19-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/329139\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Thread #48: Milwaukee Brewers (29-18) vs. Los Angeles Dodgers (31-19)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers are coming off quite a high, as earlier this week they swept their biggest division rival, the Cubs, and moved back into first place in the NL Central. This weekend, they\u2019ll look to keep the momentum going as they face off with the NL West-leading Dodgers in a rematch of last year\u2019s National League Championship Series. (Check out Harrison\u2019s series preview here<\/a>.) In game one of this three-game series, the Brewers will send Logan Henderson to the mound to face off with lefty Justin Wrobleski.<\/p>\n

Henderson is having another good season in 2026 after he impressed in five major league starts in 2025. He\u2019s been especially good since rejoining the Brewers\u2019 rotation in May. After a spot start in early April didn\u2019t go especially well, Henderson went back to the minors, but since returning on May 3, he\u2019s got a 2.81 ERA in three starts (16 innings) and an eye-catching 20:2 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In his most recent outing, Henderson picked up a win and went five innings, allowed one run on six hits while striking out seven and walking one.<\/p>\n

Wrobleski is having a sort of bizarre season. The results are good: he\u2019s 6-1 with a 2.49 ERA. But Wrobleski is striking out batters at an alarmingly low clip; with 27 strikeouts in 50 2\/3 innings, he\u2019s averaging just 4.8 strikeouts per nine innings, a number that would be good if it were the 1930s. The major league evidence we have suggests that Wrobleski isn\u2019t much of a strikeout pitcher as a starter \u2014 in 2024, when six of his eight appearances were starts, he averaged 6.4 strikeouts per nine. What\u2019s a bit confusing about it, though, is that when he was mostly relieving in 2025, he averaged a solid 10.3 K\/9. In any case, don\u2019t expect many strikeouts tonight, as the Brewers are one of the better teams at not striking out regardless of who they\u2019re facing. Wrobleski also recently had one of the stranger outings I can think of in recent times: on May 10, he threw 8 2\/3 innings, but in a game in which he allowed seven runs, all earned. He threw only 100 pitches, but it\u2019s still not something you see every day.<\/p>\n

The big news out of Milwaukee this evening: The Brewers are using a lineup they\u2019ve used already this season, which ends a streak of 47 consecutive unique lineups to start the year. Pat Murphy, for what it\u2019s worth, claims he was unaware:<\/p>\n

The lineup is the same as it was on Monday, and it worked then: that\u2019s the game in which the Brewers put eight runs on Shota Imanaga and won 9-3. This lineup includes Christian Yelich at DH, an outfield of Jake Bauers, Jackson Chourio, and Sal Frelick and an infield that goes Luis Rengifo, Joey Ortiz, Brice Turang, and Andrew Vaughn from left to right. William Contreras is behind the plate. The Dodgers, as they tend to do these days, boast at least three and maybe four Hall of Famers at the top of their lineup with Shohei Ohtani followed by Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, and Kyle Tucker. The back of their lineup includes Andy Pages, Max Muncy, Teoscar Hern\u00e1ndez, Dalton Rushing, and Hyeseong Kim.<\/p>\n

A brief note of good news from the minors: Luis Pe\u00f1a starts a rehab assignment in Arizona today.<\/p>\n

First pitch in Milwaukee is at 6:40 p.m. on Brewers TV and the Brewers Radio Network!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers are coming off quite a high, as earlier this week they swept their biggest division rival,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329140,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49,90586],"class_list":["post-329139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-milwaukee-brewers-discussions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329139\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}