Game Thread #26: Milwaukee Brewers (13-12) @ San Francisco Giants (16-9)

Brewers go for series split in Tobias Myers’ season debut

After last night’s disappointing loss, the Milwaukee Brewers will look to get a quality series split in a tough road series against the San Francisco Giants. To get them there, they’ll send Tobias Myers to the hill for his season debut.

Myers, who is 26, strained an oblique midway through spring training, which delayed the start to his season until today. He’s looked good in three rehab starts at Triple-A Nashville, where he has allowed just three runs in 13 ¹⁄₃ innings for a 2.03 ERA, although he has struck out only eight batters in that time.

Myers was a crucial stabilizer in last season’s rotation. Virtually out of the picture during spring training, injuries gave him an opportunity by the end of April (he actually made his major league debut one year ago yesterday) and from then until the end of the season, he was arguably Milwaukee’s steadiest starting pitcher. In total, he posted a 3.00 ERA in 138 innings across 27 games, 25 of which were starts. That ERA outperformed his FIP of 3.91, but even that would be a solid outcome for a pitcher who’d been all but written off as a prospect by the beginning of last season.

He will face San Francisco’s Landen Roupp, who is also 26 and who also made his major league debut last season. The righty pitched mostly out of the Giants’ bullpen in 2025, as he made just four starts compared to 17 relief appearances. All four of his appearances this season have been starts, and his results have been pedestrian—he holds a 4.09 ERA in 22 innings—but he’s striking out a ton of batters and his FIP (3.25) suggests that he’s pitching better than the results he’s gotten.

Milwaukee is, finally, giving the struggling Jackson Chourio the day off. The Brewers will go with a Christian Yelich-Garrett Mitchell-Sal Frelick outfield alignment, with Frelick moving up into Chourio’s regular two-hole spot in the lineup. They’re also getting Jake Bauers, who has been swinging it well lately, into the lineup, with Rhys Hoskins as today’s DH. Vinny Capra is in the lineup at third base today, giving Caleb Durbin his first day off since his call-up, and Eric Haase is in at catcher for William Contreras, who appeared to hurt his back in last night’s game but stayed in. According to Adam McCalvy, Contreras is getting a routine off day in the midst of a long road trip, and his absence from the lineup is unrelated to him grabbing at his back last night.

First pitch is at 2:45 p.m. CT on FanDuel Sports Wisconsin and the Brewers Radio Network.