Adam Zimmer is a staff writer with Brew Crew Ball, where he's covered the Brewers since the beginning of 2025. He is a recent graduate of Occidental College in Los Angeles, where he dedicated much of his time to showing his classmates Nori Aoki highlights.
This series, so far, has been a tale of two teams on different trajectories.
The Twins have won thirteen straight. Minnesota is perhaps the hottest team in the league right now, sporting a 33-inning scoreless streak that dates back to Wednesday against Baltimore.
The Brewers' offense, on the other hand, has been desperately trying to get anything going. Milwaukee has been shut out in four of their last five games, culminating in last night's pretty abysmal three-hit performance (all singles) against the Twins.
Excluding Wednesday's 9-5 victory over Cleveland, the Crew is averaging 1.8 runs through fourteen games in May. Check Paul's recap of last night's game for more of the stats -- the bats have been historically bad in the month of May.
Hopefully the Brewers can build a little momentum against Minnesota's Zebby Matthews. Matthews was called up from Triple-A earlier this morning and will make his first start of the season. He pitched to the tune of a 6.69 ERA in nine starts with Minnesota last year.
On the hill for the Brewers will be ace Freddy Peralta. Peralta is rocking a 2.66 ERA (4-3 record) through nine starts this season. He's been great this season, but -- to paraphrase Paul -- it doesn't matter how good the pitching is if the offense can't score.
Brice Turang, who had two of the Brewers' three hits last night, will lead off again. Rhys Hoskins, who had the other hit, is in the five spot.
William Contreras slides up to third, while Christian Yelich moves down to cleanup. Isaac Collins, in left today, hits sixth today ahead of the slumping Sal Frelick.
Other than that, pretty much business as usual. Today's a new day -- hopefully the Crew can get the bats on track.
In other news this morning, Milwaukee optioned Tobias Myers to Triple-A Nashville and transferred LHP Connor Thomas to the 60-day IL.
Myers gave up a whopping eleven hits, four earned runs, and tons of hard contact in 3.2 innings yesterday. Hard to say nobody saw this coming, especially with Myers already having been optioned to Triple-A last week. Jose Quintana, on the IL with a shoulder issue, was originally scheduled to start yesterday.
Taking Myers' place will be Easton McGee. McGee last pitched in the majors in 2023 with Seattle. He went 6.2 shutout innings in that start, allowing just one hit before leaving with an elbow injury. That elbow injury would turn out to need Tommy John surgery.
McGee missed all of 2024 but has pitched really well with the Triple-A Nashville Sounds this season. The right-hander, now working as a reliever, sports a 3.44 ERA, 1.10 WHIP and 20:9 K:BB over 18.1 innings. He'll presumably come out of the bullpen in Milwaukee.
I was hoping the corresponding call-up would be stud prospect Jacob Misiorowski, who has literally been breaking records down in Triple-A. Looks like we'll have to wait a little bit longer to see him in a Brewer uniform.
Full lineups are below. The game will be broadcast both on FanDuel Sports Network Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network. First pitch is slated for 1:10 CT.