{"id":329984,"date":"2026-08-26T08:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329984\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T08:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T08:30:11","slug":"new-york-mets-and-milwaukee-brewers-play-in-game-2-of-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/329984\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Mets and Milwaukee Brewers play in game 2 of series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Milwaukee Brewers<\/a> (81-51, first in the NL Central) vs. New York Mets<\/a> (60-72, fifth in the NL East)<\/p>\n

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

PITCHING PROBABLES: Brewers: Dustin May<\/a> (6-8, 4.57 ERA, 1.30 WHIP, 118 strikeouts); Mets: Robert Stock<\/a> (0-2, 5.40 ERA, 1.68 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n

LINE: Brewers -161, Mets +134; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: The New York Mets bring a 1-0 advantage into the latest game of the series against the Milwaukee Brewers.<\/p>\n

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

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<\/a> play.<\/p>\n

The teams meet Wednesday for the fifth time this season. The season series is tied 2-2.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Bo Bichette<\/a> has 21 doubles, two triples, 14 home runs and 66 RBIs while hitting .265 for the Mets. Carson Benge<\/a> is 14 for 38 with a double and three home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

William Contreras<\/a> has 21 doubles, a triple and 12 home runs for the Brewers. Jake Bauers<\/a> is 10 for 32 with two doubles and two home runs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Mets: 7-3, .255 batting average, 3.02 ERA, outscored opponents by eight runs<\/p>\n

Brewers: 6-4, .284 batting average, 2.42 ERA, outscored opponents by 29 runs<\/p>\n

INJURIES: Mets: Mark Vientos: 10-Day IL (hand), Jorge Polanco<\/a>: 10-Day IL (ankle), Justin Hagenman<\/a>: 60-Day IL (rib), 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), Cooper Pratt<\/a>: day-to-day (lower body), 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

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Milwaukee Brewers (81-51, first in the NL Central) vs. New York Mets (60-72, fifth in the NL East)…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20046,88035,93887,6595,96182,124191,19988,101509,54398,88054,124190,38995,20390,59747,996,17704,9,11,320,10,124192,88050],"class_list":["post-329984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-bo-bichette","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-carson-benge","tag-cionel-perez","tag-cooper-pratt","tag-devin-williams","tag-dustin-may","tag-event_preview","tag-jake-bauers","tag-joel-kuhnel","tag-jorge-polanco","tag-juan-soto","tag-justin-hagenman","tag-major-league-baseball","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-mets","tag-new-york-news","tag-robert-stock","tag-william-contreras"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=329984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/329984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=329984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=329984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=329984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}