The Milwaukee Brewers opened a three-game series against the Pittsburgh Pirates on July 10 with Brandon Sproat listed to start against Braxton Ashcraft. It was the first game in the final stretch of an 11-game, 10-day road trip, and it set the tone for a run that will be followed quickly by two more early starts.
Sproat entered the opener with a 3-4 record and a 5.13 ERA, while Ashcraft was listed at 9-2 with a 3.24 ERA. That matchup mattered because the Brewers were looking to finish the trip with momentum, and the schedule immediately turned around with Brewers at Pirates on July 11 at 3:05 p.m. before an 11:15 a.m. game on July 12.
The middle game was scheduled to feature Shane Drohan against Bubba Chandler, with Brewers.TV carrying the television feed and AM-620 WTMJ on the radio. Drohan was listed at 4-2 with a 2.97 ERA, while Chandler came in at 3-8 with a 4.82 ERA. The final game of the series was set for Jacob Misiorowski against Paul Skenes, a matchup that put Misiorowski at 10-4 with a 1.62 ERA and Skenes at 7-8 with a 3.58 ERA.
That is where the clean series preview gets a little messy. The opener had Sproat on the mound for the Brewers, but the next two games were listed with Drohan and Misiorowski, a reminder that the club’s pitching plan for the three-game set was already being mapped out across the trip rather than in one straight line. Peacock was listed as the television outlet for the July 12 game, with AM-620 WTMJ again carrying the radio broadcast.
By the time Jacob Misiorowski takes the ball on July 12, the Brewers will have gone from the first pitch of the series to the last game of the road trip in three days. What remains open is not the schedule but the answer Milwaukee wants most: whether the rotation pieces listed for this Brewers vs Pirates stretch can deliver the kind of finish that makes the trip worth the miles.
