Last Week’s Results
- Monday: Cardinals 6, Brewers 3
- Tuesday: Postponed (rescheduled for July 7)
- Wednesday: Brewers 6, Cardinals 2
- Thursday: Off Day
- Friday: Brewers 6, Yankees 0
- Saturday: Brewers 4, Yankees 3
- Sunday: Brewers 4, Yankees 3
Division Standings
- Cubs 27-14
- Brewers 22-16
- Cardinals 23-17
- Pirates 22-19
- Reds 22-19
Last Week
- Cubs: 5-2
- Brewers: 4-1
- Cardinals: 3-3
- Pirates: 3-3
- Reds: 2-5
Top Pitching Performance of the Week
Just like last week, our selection here goes to Jacob Misiorowski. Miz made all sorts of history on Friday night when he threw the seven fastest pitches ever thrown by a starting pitcher, but it wasn’t just that he was throwing hard: the Yankees couldn’t hit him, either. Misiorowski threw six shutout innings, struck out 11 batters, and allowed just two hits and two walks while outdueling Max Fried.
As for honorable
mentions, there were good pitching performances up and down the roster this week, but I’d like to single out Aaron Ashby, who picked up two more wins this week and threw five scoreless innings across three outings.
Top Hitting Performance of the Week
There are several players worthy of this honor this week, but I’m going to go with Sunday’s walkoff hero, Brice Turang. He hit two of the team’s four homers this week, including Sunday’s winner, and compiled an OPS over 1.000. Sure, Tchaikovsky seems appropriate for the occasion.
Honorable mentions to Jake Bauers, who was 4-for-9 with a homer, a double, and two walks, plus the two “we’re back” guys: Andrew Vaughn, who homered and had a .982 OPS over his first five games back, and Jackson Chourio, who sparked the offense in St. Louis and picked up a team-high eight hits (three of which were doubles) this week.
Injury Notes & Roster Moves
- The biggest news this week was on Monday, when Jackson Chourio and Andrew Vaughn were both, finally, activated from the injured list. In corresponding moves, Blake Perkins was optioned to Triple-A Nashville and Greg Jones was designated for assignment. Jones cleared waivers and was outrighted to Nashville four days later.
- Perkins, though, did not stay in the minors for long. Brandon Lockridge suffered a scary, but ultimately hopefully relatively minor, injury when when he crashed into the wall going after a foul ball on Friday night. On Saturday, Lockridge was placed on the injured list, and Perkins was back with the Brewers after just two games with the Sounds.
- We got a positive update Friday on Christian Yelich, who has been out since April 13th. He has been swinging and running the bases, and the team mentioned that he could be back with the Brewers as soon as the next series.
- Brandon Woodruff was scheduled to begin throwing again on Saturday. We’ll see how he responds, but given that there’s supposedly nothing structurally wrong, he could rejoin the team soon.
- Ángel Zerpa, who was placed on the injured list last week, needs Tommy John surgery and will miss the rest of the season. That surgery is scheduled for Monday.
- Akil Baddoo is getting close, and should go out on a minor-league rehab assignment this week.
On Deck
- Monday: Off Day
- Tuesday: vs. Padres (6:40 p.m.)
- Wednesday: vs. Padres (6:40 p.m.)
- Thursday: vs. Padres (12:40 p.m.)
- Friday: @ Twins (7:10 p.m.)
- Saturday: @ Twins (6:10 p.m.)
- Sunday: @ Twins (1:10 p.m.)
