Two playoff aspirants come together for an extended Monday-through-Thursday series. The San Francisco Giants start this week third in the stacked NL West standings, while Pat Murphy’s Milwaukee Brewers chase the Cubs in the Central.
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Across their last five tries, the visitors are 4-1 while allowing a stingy total of eight runs. Milwaukee mashed its way to 14 runs on Sunday, pummeling the Athletics behind Rhys Hoskins’ four RBI and Brice Turang’s three steals. The team as a whole leads MLB in swiped bags, compensating for league-average OBP and slugging marks with aggressive baserunning and fresh energies. Twenty-five-year-old Turang has crossed home plate more than anyone in 2025, and 21-year-old Jackson Chourio is on his way to national stardom.
San Francisco counters with a speed demon of its own in Tyler Fitzgerald (five steals in his first 70 plate appearances) and a budding young outfielder in Jung Hoo Lee. Entering Monday’s action, Lee leads baseball in doubles and sits in the top five in Baseball Reference’s offensive WAR. Elsewhere, Matt Chapman is a god-tier walk-drawer and Wilmer Flores has pop at the DH spot.
Former Cy Young southpaw Robbie Ray goes for the Giants on Monday, trying to recover from a four-run, four-inning stinker against the Phillies last time out. He has four or more walks in three of his four starts thus far. Excellent right-hander Logan Webb is Wednesday’s probable, following up Friday night’s fiery 12-strikeout effort in Anaheim. Webb will throw against Brewers bellwether Freddy Peralta, who brings a 1.91 ERA to Wednesday’s start. Peralta is in the 96th percentile for offspeed pitching value and has been mowing batters down with panache:
Milwaukee (18) — “So much of this era of Brewers baseball has been defined by solid relief pitching — the kind of relief pitching that helps teams win games they absolutely had no business winning — that it’s almost inconceivable to think of Milwaukee having a “bad” bullpen. But that’s precisely what’s happening so far in the early days of the 2025 campaign.” – Johnny Flores Jr.
San Francisco (5) — “Babe Ruth put up 119 extra-base hits in 1921. After swatting two homers on Sunday in the Bronx, Jung Hoo Lee was on pace for 139. Feels unsustainable. Even so, do Giants fans really want to hear about problems at a time like this?” – Andy McCullough
Most home runs in both jerseys: Rob Deer (137 MIL, 11 SFG)
Players with 40-plus HR for each franchise: Marquis Grissom (44 MIL, 44 SFG)
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