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Brewers Look to Continue Home Surge vs. Cubs
The Milwaukee Brewers are hoping right-hander Colin Rea can keep their home-field success going when they face the Chicago Cubs on Friday to start a three-game series.
Pitching Matchup
Colin Rea vs. Jameson Taillon
Rea (6-2, 3.62 ERA) will start for the Brewers, while the Cubs will counter with right-hander Jameson Taillon (4-3, 2.90 ERA), making his third start of the season against Milwaukee.
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Recent Performances
Chicago Cubs
The Cubs are coming off a 5-3 win against the San Francisco Giants on Thursday, thanks to Ian Happ’s two-run homer in the 10th inning. Nico Hoerner also hit a two-run shot earlier in the game. The Cubs’ bullpen kept the Giants scoreless after starter Shota Imanaga gave up three runs in the sixth inning.
Milwaukee Brewers
The Brewers, who had Thursday off, recently swept the Texas Rangers in a three-game home series. They won the final game 6-5 in 10 innings on Wednesday with a walk-off single by Andruw Monasterio. Jake Bauers hit a grand slam, and rookie Jackson Chourio had an inside-the-park homer. Chourio is hitting .302 (19-for-63) in June with three doubles, three homers, and 13 RBIs.
“I’m feeling better every single day. Hopefully, we can maintain this,” Chourio said. “Truthfully, there hasn’t been a lot different. I think more things are going my way and some of those hits are falling now.”
Home-Field Advantage
The Brewers have won five straight games at home and are 20-5 over their past 25 games at American Family Field after starting 5-7 there. They are 9-2-1 in home series this season.
Head-to-Head
Milwaukee is 4-3 against the Cubs this season. Chicago won two of three at home in early May, while the Brewers took three of four at home later that month. In the last series, Brewers shortstop Willy Adames went 7-for-14 with two homers and seven RBIs.
Season of Colin Rea
Rea who was moved from Wednesday’s scheduled start in favor of newly acquired Dallas Keuchel, gave up five runs in51/3 innings on June 21 against San Diego, losing 9- 5. In four appearances, including three starts, in June, he’s 2- 0 with a3.22 earned run average. In three vocation begins against the Fledglings, Rea has a2.93 Period. He faced the Cubs once this season, giving up one run over51/3 innings in a game the Brewers won 6- 4 on May 30.
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Jameson Taillon’s Season
Taillon is falling off quite possibly of his best beginning, permitting one disagreement seven innings and striking out a season-high 10 in a 8- 1 palm over the Mets on Saturday. Since May 4 against Milwaukee, this was his first victory.
Craig Counsell, the Cubs’ manager, said,” He pitched really well.” Certainly got more decisive miss than we have set up in the last several beginnings. In any case, I thought he was simply secured. Tomas Nido, the catcher, did a great job with him, and he just controlled the counts really, really well, in my opinion.
Taillon is 4- 7 with a3.20 Time in 16 profession games, including 15 beginnings, against the Brewers. In his two starts this season against them, he has allowed three runs in 12 innings.
Changes to the Cubs’ Roster
Due to a right forearm strain, the Cubs placed right- hander Javier Assad on the 15- day injured list on Thursday, retroactive to Monday. In 16 appearances, Assad went 4- 3 with a3.04 ERA. It’s anticipated that right- hander Hayden Wesneski, who made his debut on Wednesday, will remain in the rotation.
