Tonight, the Milwaukee Brewers and Chicago Cubs will begin one of the bigger regular-season series to come to Milwaukee. The division rivals come into this late-July series tied for first in the National League Central; the Brewers, who have been white hot for two solid months, were trailing the Cubs by 6.5 games in the division as recently as May 28th, but a 37-15 stretch since May 24th has propelled Milwaukee all the way back to a tie with the Cubs not just for the division crown but for the best
record in the National League.
In a week that will feature multiple marquee pitching matchups, we’ll start tonight with maybe the best one as All-Stars Matthew Boyd and Jacob Misiorowski face off. The 34-year-old Boyd, who signed as a free agent this season, has struggled with injuries over the past several years and has already made more starts in 2025 than he did in any other season since 2019. He’s been outstanding, especially for a pitcher who looked to be about league average or a little worse when he was in his 20s; in 118 2⁄3 innings in 2025, Boyd owns a 2.20 ERA (173 ERA+) and 3.10 FIP, he’s walked just 1.8 batters per nine (a career low by a significant margin), and he’s worked to an 11-3 record. It has rather easily been the best season of his 11-year career.
Misiorowski remains appointment viewing, but we’re likely beginning to see what the Brewers have in mind for him in terms of keeping his workload under control as the season progresses. Miz has already thrown 92 2⁄3 innings in 2025 between Triple-A Nashville and the majors, which is just a handful short of the 97 1⁄3 he tossed in 2024. The Brewers have not been particularly forthcoming with their plan for Misiorowski, but the widely held belief is that young pitchers should increase their workload by roughly 20 innings per season. If we believe that the Brewers would prefer that Miz didn’t go much past 120 innings this season, they’re going to really need to limit him, and that might be by keeping his starts short, like his last one versus the Mariners was. He was still effective—seven strikeouts, no runs, one walk—but threw only 3 2⁄3 innings and 64 pitches.
We have a roster move to note today, as Craig Yoho has been recalled from Triple-A Nashville and will exchange roster spots with Tobias Myers.
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Myers has made only two appearances since being recalled from Nashville on July 11th—in those two appearances he allowed no runs on one hit and no walks while striking out four in three innings. Both appearances came in what was essentially mop-up duty; he pitched the last two innings of the Brewers’ 10-2 win in Seattle on July 23rd and the top of the ninth in their 5-1 loss to Miami on Friday. Yoho has mostly been his familiar dominant self in Nashville this season, where he owns a 0.84 ERA in 32 innings. His strikeouts aren’t quite where they were in 2024, but he has remained just as unhittable—he’s allowed only 5.1 hits per nine innings and has a WHIP of 0.938. Yoho has not allowed a run in the minor leagues since June 12th.
Sal Frelick is also back in the lineup tonight. He was reinstated from the 10-day injured list on Saturday and batted leadoff in that game but was given the day off on Sunday. With Frelick in there, the Brewers’ “expected” lineup—with Isaac Collins in left field, Jackson Chourio in right, and Christian Yelich at designated hitter—takes the field tonight. The Cubs are sticking with their recent approach of batting first baseman Michael Busch in the leadoff spot, where he was first used on July 13th and where he has batted in seven of his last ten games. The dangerous Kyle Tucker-Seiya Suzuki-Pete Crow-Armstrong triumvirate follows.
We’ll hope for an actual Brewer-friendly crowd tonight at what the folks down south like to call “Wrigley Field North.” First pitch is scheduled for 6:40 p.m. and is on the usual media outlets, FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network.
Fired up for this one
— Milwaukee Brewers (@Brewers) July 28, 2025
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Hiiiiii Milwaukeeeee
— Chicago Cubs (@Cubs) July 28, 2025
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