The Brewers are coming off quite a high, as earlier this week they swept their biggest division rival, the Cubs, and moved back into first place in the NL Central. This weekend, they’ll look to keep the momentum going as they face off with the NL West-leading Dodgers in a rematch of last year’s National League Championship Series. (Check out Harrison’s series preview here.) In game one of this three-game series, the Brewers will send Logan Henderson to the mound to face off with lefty Justin Wrobleski.
Henderson is having another good season in 2026 after he impressed in five major-league starts in 2025. He’s been especially good since rejoining the Brewers’ rotation in May. After a spot start in early April didn’t go especially well, Henderson went back to the minors, but since returning on May 3rd he’s got a 2.81 ERA in three starts (16 innings) and an eye-catching 20:2 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In his most recent outing, Henderson picked up a win and went five innings, allowed one run on six hits while striking out seven and walking one.
Wrobleski is having a sort of bizarre season. The results are good: he’s 6-1 with a 2.49 ERA. But Wrobleski is striking out batters at an alarmingly low clip; with 27 strikeouts in 50.2 innings, he’s averaging just 4.8 strikeouts per nine innings, a number that would be good if it were the 1930s. The major-league evidence we have suggests that Wrobleski isn’t much of a strikeout pitcher as a starter—in 2024, when six of his eight appearances were starts, he averaged 6.4 strikeouts per nine. What’s a bit confusing about it, though, is that when he was mostly relieving in 2025, he averaged a solid 10.3 K/9. In any case, don’t expect many strikeouts tonight, as the Brewers are one of the better teams at not striking out regardless of who they’re facing. Wrobleski also recently had one of the stranger outings I can think of in recent times: on May 10th, he threw 8 2/3 innings, but in a game in which he allowed seven runs, all earned. He threw only 100 pitches, but it’s still not something you see every day.
The big news out of Milwaukee this evening: The Brewers are using a lineup they’ve used already this season, which ends a streak of 47 consecutive unique lineups to start the year. Pat Murphy, for what it’s worth, claims he was unaware:
The lineup is the same as it was on Monday, and it worked then: that’s the game in which the Brewers put eight runs on Shota Imanaga and won 9-3. This lineup includes Christian Yelich at DH, an outfield of Jake Bauers, Jackson Chourio, and Sal Frelick and an infield that goes Luis Rengifo, Joey Ortiz, Brice Turang, and Andrew Vaughn from left to right. William Contreras is behind the plate. The Dodgers, as they tend to do these days, boast at least three and maybe four Hall of Famers at the top of their lineup with Shohei Ohtani followed by Mookie Betts, Freddie Freeman, and Kyle Tucker. The back-half of their lineup includes Andy Pages, Max Muncy, Teoscar Hernández, Dalton Rushing, and Hyeseong Kim.
A brief note of good news from the minors: Luis Peña starts a rehab assignment in Arizona today.
First pitch in Milwaukee is at 6:40 p.m. on Brewers TV and the Brewers Radio Network!
