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The Milwaukee Brewers, winners of seven straight against the Cardinals and four straight overall, are looking to extend both those streaks on Wednesday night as they’ll take on St. Louis for the fourth game of their five-game set. Left-hander Kyle Harrison is set to start for the Brewers, with righty Michael McGreevy starting for the […]
The Milwaukee Brewers made a flurry of roster moves before their doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals on Tuesday afternoon. Among these was demoting struggling outfielder Blake Perkins to Triple-A, and calling up another outfielder, Luis Lara, to take his place. Earlier this year, Lara and Milwaukee agreed to a seven-year $31 million contract. This, [...]
St. Louis Cardinals pitching prospect Quinn Mathews is playing well in Memphis, and the Cardinals could decide to promote him sometime this season.
The Milwaukee Brewers improved to 58-33 on the season after sweeping their doubleheader on Tuesday against the St. Louis Cardinals. While the first game was a 4-3 nail-biter, the second was a 10-2 blowout. That game saw Luis Lara make his Major League debut and Robert Gasser throw a career-high 7.2 innings. It also saw [...]
A kid’s dream finally came through on Tuesday, with Milwaukee Brewers highly touted prospect Luis Lara making his debut in the big leagues. Facing the St. Louis Cardinals in the second game of the day’s doubleheader at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, Lara made things happen at the plate, drawing further attention and driving up [...]
Dustin May is a likely trade candidate and the St. Louis Cardinals could matchup with the Chicago White Sox for a win-win deal
I was already leaning towards writing about this before the Brewers series, but after last night’s game, it really hammered the point home. So, through the lens of my own bullpen rankings, I will compare which teams are really thriving with a light’s out, effective bullpen, and which teams are bleeding wins because of theirs. […]
The Milwaukee Brewers’ ace Jacob Misiorowski faced an unfamiliar struggle on Tuesday against the St. Louis Cardinals. The hard-throwing right-hander allowed two home runs in the matchup, extending a rare stretch that has seen him surrender multiple homers in consecutive starts for the first time since reaching the major leagues. Before this recent stretch, Misiorowski [...]
Free of charge for the discerning reader. Happy birthday to Jerome Walton, and a mighty host of others. Today in baseball history, in 1962 – With home runs in his first three at bats, 41-year-old Stan Musial of the Cardinals not only becomes the oldest player to hit three in a game but also ties the major league record […]
The Milwaukee Brewers just keep on winning, and they even got a boost on Tuesday from electric prospect Luis Lara, who made his debut in the big leagues in the second leg of a doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Lara made his presence felt right away for Milwaukee [...]
St. Louis Cardinals closer Riley O'Brien was added to the National League All-Star roster even with his recent struggles.
Box Score For six innings, the Brewers and Cardinals were involved in another close, low-scoring baseball game. Starters Robert Gasser and Hunter Dobbins were both pitching well, and while Milwaukee got out to an early lead, the Cardinals punched back in the sixth. Then the seventh inning happened. Milwaukee put up seven runs in their […]
Christian Yelich remains a key figure for the Milwaukee Brewers, but he hasn’t been producing at a high level, especially during several games before Tuesday’s meeting with the St. Louis Cardinals at Busch Stadium in St. Louis. Heading to that contest, the former National League Most Valuable Player went just 3-for-30. He turned things around [...]
Hunter Dobbins was entrusted with the starting duties of game 2 of the day/night doubleheader against the Milwaukee Brewers and did a great job of limiting their offense to minimal damage in the early innings. The St. Louis Cardinals offense did not make a significant appearance in the game and the 7th inning was a […]
The St. Louis Cardinals will play game 2 of their day/night doubleheader Tuesday against the Milwaukee Brewers with Hunter Dobbins getting the start for the birds. The Brew Crew will assign night pitching duties to Robert Gasser who’s 1-3 with a 4.54 ERA. First pitch scheduled for 6:45pm central time with the game broadcast available […]
The Cardinals made some moves in between games of today’s doubleheader. They selected left-hander Jared Shuster to the roster. Fellow lefty Bruce Zimmermann has been designated for assignment in a corresponding move. Zimmermann was only added to the roster this morning. Per Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat, the Cards wanted to give some extra […]
Phillies starting pitcher Jesús Luzardo is heading to next week’s All-Star Game in Philadelphia. Luzardo was added to the roster as a pitching reserve. Luzardo, the Pirates’ Braxton Ashcraft and the Cardinals’ Riley O’Brien were also added to the NL roster as replacements for Sunday starters Paul Skenes, Jacob Misiorowski and Max Meyer. Luzardo, 28, […]
Welcome back for game two of today’s doubleheader. The Brewers won a tight game one behind 11 strikeouts from Jacob Misiorowski and three hits each from Christian Yelich and Joey Ortiz. In game two this evening, Robert Gasser — who is designated as today’s 27th man via MLB’s doubleheader rules — will make the start […]
The Cardinals are planning to select the contract of right-handed reliever Luis Gastelum, per reports from Jeff Jones of the Belleville News-Democrat and Derrick Goold of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The specific timing of the move is up in the air, perhaps pending how the pitching staff is used in today’s doubleheader. Jones notes that […]
Box Score The Brewers picked up another win in the first game of Tuesday’s doubleheader in St. Louis, as Jacob Misiorowski struck out 11 across seven innings and Christian Yelich and Joey Ortiz each came up with three-hit days in a 4-3 victory over the Cardinals. After Matt Svanson worked around a leadoff ground-rule double […]
On paper, the St. Louis Cardinals were overmatched in game 1 of a day/night doubleheader at Busch Stadium Tuesday. However, baseball games are played on fields and Jordan Walker proved that the unbeatable are really not invincible as he homered against Jacob Misiorowski giving the Cardinals an early lead over the Brewers in game 1 […]
Here are some under the radar trade targets for the Houston Astros: OF Lars Nootbaar, Cardinals (28): Nootbaar is a solid OBP corner outfielder whose season only started June 5 due to offseason surgery on both of his heels, which has impacted his ability to run the past couple of seasons. When healthy, as he […]
The Brewers and Cardinals should use the trade deadline to their advantage in their respective postseason chases.
The Milwaukee Brewers made some interesting roster moves already today. Prior to their doubleheader against the St. Louis Cardinals, Milwaukee promoted Luis Lara to the Major League roster and sent Blake Perkins down to Triple-A Nashville. They also added Robert Gasser to the roster as their 27th man, a move allowed to teams by Major [...]
The St. Louis Cardinals will have their work cut out for them in game 1 of a day/night doubleheader against the Milwaukee Brewers on Tuesday. The St. Louis Cardinals have announced they’re starting Matt Svanson in game 1 while the Milwaukee Brewers are sending likely All-Star game starter Jacob Misiorowski to the mound. First pitch […]