Yesterday, the Brewers had a lot more hard-hit baseballs than the Rockies did, but they ultimately had nothing to show for it as Colorado won, 5-2, with the Brewers’ only two runs coming on solo homers by Christian Yelich and Brice Turang. Today, Milwaukee will look to even the series behind the series behind the pitching of Robert Gasser. He’ll face off with the Rockies’ Ryan Feltner.
Gasser has had mixed results his last couple of times out. On Sunday against Miami, Gasser was quite good—five innings,
one run, and five strikeouts to zero walks in a 3-1 victory. But the time before, just before the All-Star break in Pittsburgh, was one of the worst starts in his big-league career in which he gave up seven runs in three innings. Let’s maybe chalk that one up to pre-break doldrums; if you remove that one start from Gasser’s season total, his ERA drops a full run, from 4.91 to 3.91.
Feltner, a 29-year-old right-hander in his sixth season, has been a below average pitcher for his career and has a career ERA of 5.24, but he’s always managed to pitch well against the Brewers. In six starts between 2022 and 2026, he’s got an ERA of 2.67 in 33 2/3 innings, and the Rockies are 3-3 in games that he’s started against the Brewers, despite an overall record of 273-480 in that time. Overall this season, Feltner is 3-4 with a 5.48 ERA (91 ERA+, thanks Coors Field) and 5.68 FIP in 14 starts. Feltner should be hittable, but as we can see, that doesn’t always translate to actually being hittable.
After Joey Ortiz started at shortstop (and struggled—he can only hit when playing third!) yesterday, he’ll cede the position back to Cooper Pratt and start on the bench today. David Hamilton is in the lineup for his second straight start at third base after getting activated from the injured list yesterday, and the rest of the infield is Turang and Jake Bauers. Christian Yelich is the DH and William Contreras does the catching while Jackson Chourio, Garrett Mitchell, and Luis Lara man the outfield.
First pitch today is at 6:10 p.m. on Brewers TV and the Brewers Radio Network. Have a good Saturday!
