{"id":690243,"date":"2026-06-07T18:42:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690243\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:42:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:42:13","slug":"game-discussion-milwaukee-brewers-39-23-colorado-rockies-24-41","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/690243\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Discussion: Milwaukee Brewers (39-23) @ Colorado Rockies (24-41)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Milwaukee Brewers and Colorado Rockies<\/a> wrap up their three-game series today in Denver. The Brewers are hoping for a rare road sweep; my quick and dirty research shows that Milwaukee has only swept the Rockies in Colorado once, from June 20-22, 2014. The winning pitchers in those games were Marco Estrada<\/a>, Wily Peralta<\/a>, and Kyle Lohse<\/a>.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s been a wild series so far. The Brewers escaped with an extra-innings victory<\/a> in game one after accruing only one hit through the game\u2019s first seven innings. Last night was a more comfortable win<\/a>, as Milwaukee hit five solo homers and Jacob Misiorowski<\/a> did Jacob Misiorowski things<\/a>. This afternoon, Shane Drohan will start the game for the Brewers, while lefty Kyle Freeland<\/a> takes the hill for the Rox.<\/p>\n

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Drohan is making his third start and 13th appearance this season for the Brewers. After a bit of a rough outing in his MLB debut on April 8th (a spot start in which he allowed three runs and walked four in just 2 2\/3 innings), Drohan returned to the big leagues in late April as a long man out of the bullpen. Since then he\u2019s been quite good: from April 24th through May 27th, Drohan made 10 appearances out of the bullpen and had a 1.82 ERA, 26 strikeouts, and just four walks in 24 2\/3 innings. Necessity moved him back to the rotation on June 1st, when Drohan pitched the first four innings of Milwaukee\u2019s 16-2 romp over the Giants. He allowed two runs on four hits and two walks while striking out five. Overall, Drohan has a 2.87 ERA and 2.78 FIP in 31 1\/3 innings on the season.<\/p>\n

Freeland is a Rockies legend, the owner of what was arguably the best pitching season in team history (he went 17-7 with a 166 ERA+ in 202 innings in 2018). But at age 33, he is having a disaster of a season. In 10 starts, Freeland owns an 8.06 ERA and 6.08 FIP. While his strikeout and walk numbers aren\u2019t terrible, he\u2019s allowing a ton of hits (12.6 per nine) and a ton of homers (2.4 per nine). Only the Cubs<\/a>\u2019 Jameson Taillon<\/a> has allowed more homers per nine innings than Freeland among qualified pitchers, and that number of hits would be the most per nine innings in baseball by a lot\u2014Zac Gallen<\/a> is currently last with 10.9\/9.<\/p>\n

Expect Drohan\u2019s innings to be somewhat limited today: he hasn\u2019t thrown more than 71 pitches in any appearance this season (he had 68 in his last outing) and hasn\u2019t completed more than 4 1\/3 innings. This Rockies roster doesn\u2019t exactly work the count, so he could get deeper into the game, but I wouldn\u2019t expect Drohan to go much beyond 70 pitches even if he\u2019s cruising. The bullpen should be in pretty good shape after Misiorowski went seven last night; the only players used out of the \u2018pen on Saturday were Grant Anderson and Milwaukee debutant Drew Rom.<\/p>\n

Christian Yelich<\/a> gets the afternoon off with the lefty on the hill, so Jackson Chourio<\/a> moves up into the leadoff spot. William Contreras<\/a> will serve as the DH today, with Gary S\u00e1nchez<\/a> behind the plate batting fifth. Jake Bauers<\/a>, who is 4-for-6 with a homer, two doubles, four RBI, and four walks in the series, isn\u2019t in today\u2019s starting lineup; Chourio, Garrett Mitchell<\/a>, and Blake Perkins<\/a> are in the outfield today, while Andrew Vaughn<\/a> will handle duties at first base. Luis Rengifo<\/a> and Joey Ortiz<\/a> make up the left side of the infield, and Brice Turang<\/a> (who homered twice last night) plays second base and bats second.<\/p>\n

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First pitch today is at 2:10 p.m. It\u2019s free on Brewers.TV no matter what market you\u2019re in, and can be found in all the regular places on TV and the radio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Milwaukee Brewers and Colorado Rockies wrap up their three-game series today in Denver. The Brewers are hoping…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":690244,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[21298,116366,61430,59486,1230,9894,231192,169278,102582,13260,100288,17878,52837,24275,299634,79471,299633,299631,8263,2325,363,2329,214141,99,24,52836,299632,1745,38788],"class_list":["post-690243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-andrew-vaughn","tag-blake-perkins","tag-brice-turang","tag-christian-yelich","tag-colorado-rockies","tag-cubs","tag-garrett-mitchell","tag-gary-sanchez","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jacob-misiorowski","tag-jake-bauers","tag-jameson-taillon","tag-joey-ortiz","tag-kyle-freeland","tag-kyle-lohse","tag-luis-rengifo","tag-marco-estrada","tag-michael-mcloone-imagn","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-san-francisco-giants","tag-shane-drohan","tag-sports","tag-usa","tag-william-contreras","tag-wily-peralta","tag-wisconsin","tag-zac-gallen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/690244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}