{"id":870811,"date":"2026-06-16T09:09:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/870811\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:09:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:09:28","slug":"brewers-host-the-guardians-to-open-3-game-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/870811\/","title":{"rendered":"Brewers host the Guardians to open 3-game series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cleveland Guardians (39-33, second in the AL Central) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (43-26, first in the NL Central)<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee; Tuesday, 7:40 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n<p>PITCHING PROBABLES: Guardians: Slade Cecconi (3-5, 4.83 ERA, 1.45 WHIP, 61 strikeouts); Brewers: Robert Gasser (0-3, 6.38 ERA, 1.58 WHIP, 19 strikeouts)<\/p>\n<p>LINE: Brewers -155, Guardians +126; over\/under is 8 1\/2 runs<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: The Milwaukee Brewers host the Cleveland Guardians to begin a three-game series.<\/p>\n<p>Milwaukee has a 43-26 record overall and a 23-14 record at home. The Brewers have the fourth-best team ERA in the majors at 3.45.<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland has a 20-16 record on the road and a 39-33 record overall. The Guardians have the third-ranked team ERA in the AL at 3.75.<\/p>\n<p>The teams meet Tuesday for the first time this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Jake Bauers leads the Brewers with 13 home runs while slugging .519. Jackson Chourio is 19 for 49 with seven home runs and 14 RBIs over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Brayan Rocchio has nine doubles, two triples and five home runs while hitting .274 for the Guardians. Jose Ramirez is 10 for 39 with a double and two home runs over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Brewers: 6-4, .303 batting average, 5.38 ERA, outscored opponents by 20 runs<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: 4-6, .220 batting average, 3.78 ERA, outscored by nine runs<\/p>\n<p>INJURIES: Brewers: Coleman Crow: 15-Day IL (forearm), Jared Koenig: 15-Day IL (elbow), Carlos Rodriguez: 15-Day IL (undisclosed), Brandon Lockridge: 10-Day IL (knee), Brandon Woodruff: 15-Day IL (arm), Logan Henderson: 15-Day IL (back), Brian Fitzpatrick: 60-Day IL (elbow), Quinn Priester: 60-Day IL (wrist), D.L. Hall: 15-Day IL (pectoral), Rob Zastryzny: 15-Day IL (shoulder), Angel Zerpa: 60-Day IL (forearm)<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: Jose Ramirez: 10-Day IL (hand), Chase DeLauter: day-to-day (rib cage), Angel Martinez: day-to-day (foot), Erik Sabrowski: 15-Day IL (elbow)<\/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":"Cleveland Guardians (39-33, second in the AL Central) vs. Milwaukee Brewers (43-26, first in the NL Central) Milwaukee;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":535580,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[41],"tags":[211002,240110,591,7790,125130,141503,28109,145022,1282,221862,354340,141506,40746,117313,88066,16751,212914,4247,1266,1822,26097,284301,136253,122549,62,67,132,68],"class_list":["post-870811","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-angel-martinez","tag-angel-zerpa","tag-baseball","tag-brandon-lockridge","tag-brandon-woodruff","tag-brayan-rocchio","tag-brian-fitzpatrick","tag-carlos-rodriguez","tag-cleveland-guardians","tag-coleman-crow","tag-d-l-hall","tag-erik-sabrowski","tag-jackson-chourio","tag-jake-bauers","tag-jared-koenig","tag-jose-ramirez","tag-logan-henderson","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-baseball","tag-quinn-priester","tag-rob-zastryzny","tag-robert-gasser","tag-slade-cecconi","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116759007657376320","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870811","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=870811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/870811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/535580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=870811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=870811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=870811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}