The Milwaukee Brewers have 15 games remaining in the 2025 regular season. If they win more of those games than they lose, they’ll finish with the best record in franchise history. Tonight, they’re back from the Packer game and looking to put a frustrating sweep at the hands of the Rangers behind them, as they open a three-game series at home against the Cardinals.
The first game of the series will start with a pitching matchup between Milwaukee’s Quinn Priester and St. Louis’s Andre Pallante. Priester is coming
off a start a week ago in which he won his 11th straight decision, a new franchise record. His record on the season now stands at 12-2, to go along with a 3.25 ERA (129 ERA+) and 4.19 FIP. Friday’s win was the fourth consecutive outing in which Priester allowed two or fewer runs, and he’ll look to keep that going this evening.
Pallante’s season has not been as smooth. He did pitch reasonably well in his last outing, when he allowed two runs in six innings against the San Francisco Giants on Saturday in a 3-2 win in which he did not factor in the decision. But overall it has been a rough season for the 26-year-old right-hander, who is 6-13 with a 5.28 ERA and 4.65 FIP. Pallante doesn’t strike out many batters, and instead, like Priester, works to induce ground balls: he has a 97th-percentile groundball rate, according to Statcast. But a deeper dive shows that Pallante’s fastballs come in a lot straighter than Priester’s do, and despite a similar profile Pallante hasn’t had the same type of success. (The Brewers’ defense certainly helps, too.)
There is a bit of lineup shuffling today, as Sal Frelick returns to the top of the order, Brice Turang bats third even with both William Contreras and Christian Yelich in the lineup, and Jackson Chourio starts in center field. Yelich is batting fifth, which is his lowest starting position in the batting order since June 11, 2023 and just the third time he’s started a game below the fourth spot in the batting order since joining the Brewers.
Tonight’s game is on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network, with first pitch scheduled for 7:10 p.m.
