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The Milwaukee Brewers enter Dodger Stadium as the -117 road favorites tonight on the back of Jacob Misiorowski, who looks to continue his climb up the NL Cy Young odds.

I’ll break down why the Brew Crew is a good bet for a low-scoring win in my Brewers vs. Dodgers predictions and free MLB picks for Saturday, Aug. 15.

Who will win Brewers vs Dodgers today: Brewers moneyline (-121)

Jacob Misiorowski is running away in the NL Cy Young odds, and it’s easy to see why. 

The Milwaukee Brewers ace is in the top percentile among all pitchers in pitching run value, xERA (1.93), xBA (.163), and K% (40.6%).

Misiorowski has held his opponents to two runs or fewer in 14 of his last 16 starts going back to May, and that’s bad news for a Los Angeles Dodgers squad that’s averaging just 3.62 runs per game over its last 13 contests.

I’m playing Milwaukee up to -125.

COVERS INTEL: The Dodgers are hitting an MLB-worst .169 against the four-seamer vs. righties this month, a pitch that Misiorowski throws 64% of the time with an average velocity over 100 mph.

Brewers vs Dodgers Over/Under pick: Under 7.5 (-121)

The Dodgers are ice-cold at the plate right now, and they won’t put many runs on the board against Misiorowski and the fourth-best bullpen in the majors.

Meanwhile, the Brewers are down three starting players and have averaged a measly three runs per game over their last seven outings.

Milwaukee also owns the eighth-worst average (.219) and highest K% (36.6) against left-handed pitching this month, and won’t enjoy tonight’s matchup vs. Justin Wrobleski.

The Under is the play to -130.

Brewers vs Dodgers home run prediction: Jackson Chourio (+414)

Jackson Chourio has been Milwaukee’s most consistent home-run hitter this year with 17 dingers in 89 games. The right-handed slugger has hammered left-handed pitching, with five homers in just 94 at-bats while carrying a .309 average and .521 SLG.

Breaking balls have been a weak spot for Wrobleski, who carries a -3 breaking run value according to Statcast. Wrobleski’s slider has been hit out of the park five times this season, and Chourio himself has hit nine of his 17 dingers off that pitch. 

Playable to +400. 

Brewers vs Dodgers weather

Dodger Stadium will see clear skies, mild temperatures, and light winds blowing out to center field throughout the night. 

Brewers vs Dodgers odds

• Moneyline: Brewers -117 | Dodgers +113
• Run line: Brewers -1.5 | Dodgers +1.5
• Over/Under: Over 7.5 | Under 7.5

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Last night the bats just could not get going and the bullpen faltered. That led to a disappointing 4-1 loss. Now the boys will have to regroup and try to even the series. Hopefully the league’s highest scoring offense can figure out the Mets makeshift pitching staff.

With a lefty on the mound, there will be plenty of changes to the lineup. Dylan Crews will lead off and play right. CJ Abrams is at short again despite the announcement of his move to second base. Andrew Pinckney and Harry Ford are also back in the lineup. Brad Lord will start as his reintegration into the rotation continues.

The Mets have a couple new faces at the bottom of their lineup. Brett Baty will play left field and Jorge Polanco will DH. Otherwise it is the same group as last night. Francisco Lindor will lead the way without Juan Soto. Sean Manaea has been throwing the ball much better lately and will be on the mound today.

Game Info:

Stadium: Citi Field

Time: 4:10 PM EST

TV: Nationals.TV and FS1

Radio: 106.7 The Fan

Losing this series in New York would be a massive blow. This group needs to buckle down and do whatever it takes to win. Follow along in the comments down below and let’s go Nats!

It’s time for Game 2 in the three-game series between the San Francisco Giants and the Colorado Rockies. All I’m hoping for is that it goes better than the first game did. And hey, we’re getting an MLB debut this fine afternoon, as Turner Hill is starting in left field!

Taking the mound for the Giants is their ace, righty Logan Webb. The three-time All-Star has made 21 starts this season, and is 7-7 with a 3.59 ERA, a 3.27 FIP, and 103 strikeouts to 32 walks in 133 innings. Webb was excellent his last time out, giving up just one run in eight innings against the Detroit Tigers.

For the Rockies, it’s veteran right-hander Michael Lorenzen. The 33-year old, who was an All-Star in 2023, has made 25 appearances in his first season with Colorado, and has gone 3-10 with a 6.83 ERA, a 5.09 FIP, and 81 strikeouts to 46 walks in 112 innings. He’s given up the most hits (164) and runs (85) in the Majors this year, so you can expect the Giants to be shut out. Lorenzen gave up four runs, two of which were earned, in 4.1 innings against the St. Louis Cardinals his last time out.

Enjoy the baseball, everyone!

Lineups

Giants

1. Drew Gilbert — CF
2. Rafael Devers — DH
3. Bryce Eldridge — 1B
4. Jung Hoo Lee — RF
5. Osleivis Basabe — 2B
6. Drew Cavanaugh — C
7. Turner Hill — LF
8. Buddy Kennedy — 3B
9. Christian Koss — SS

RHP. Logan Webb

Rockies

1. Jake McCarthy — LF
2. Cole Carrigg — CF
3. TJ Rumfield — 1B
4. Hunter Goodman — C
5. Mickey Moniak — DH
6. Willi Castro — 3B
7. Zac Veen — RF
8. Connor Norby — 2B
9. Ezequiel Tovar — SS

RHP. Michael Lorenzen

Game #123

Who: San Francisco Giants (50-72) vs. Colorado Rockies (49-73)

Where: Oracle Park, San Francisco, California

When: 1:05 p.m. PT

Regional broadcast: NBC Sports Bay Area

National broadcast: n/a

Radio: KNBR 680 AM/104.5 FM, KSFN 1510 AM

Aaron Judge has not been seen in a baseball game since May 31. Yet on Saturday, Aug. 15, the New York Yankees got at least a glimpse of Judge both upright and participating in baseball activities.

Judge played catch and ran before the Yankees' game against the Blue Jays at Toronto's Rogers Centre as he begins his gradual climb back from a fractured right rib. He was cleared for baseball activities Aug. 5, but the Yankees have been deliberate in assessing test results and monitoring his injury.

"We expect him back, but we're in the early stages of baseball activity," Yankees manager Aaron Boone told reporters in Toronto. "Hopefully things continue to go well."

The Yankees were 36-23 and 1 1/2 games behind Tampa Bay in the American League East when Judge played his final game before going on the injured list. They've gone 32-31 since, losing All-Star Game MVP Cody Bellinger along the way, and now trail Tampa Bay by 6 1/2 games entering play Saturday. New York retains a three-game lead over Boston for the No. 1 wild card spot.

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: Yankees get promising update on Aaron Judge injury return

Mets lineup

A.J. Ewing – CF
Francisco Lindor – SS
Bo Bichette – 3B
Carson Benge – RF
Jared Young – 1B
Marcus Semien – 2B
Brett Baty – LF
Jorge Polanco – DH
Francisco Alvarez – C

SP: Sean Manaea – LHP

Nationals lineup

Dylan Crews – RF
Andres Chaparro – 1B
Brady House – 3B
CJ Abrams – SS
Harry Ford – C
Jacob Young – CF
Daylen Lile – DH
Nasim Nunez – 2B
Andrew Pinckney – LF

SP: Brad Lord – RHP

Broadcast info

First pitch: 4:10 PM EDT
TV: SNY
Radio: Audacy Mets Radio WHSQ 880AM, Audacy App, 92.3 HD2

After taking the first game of the series behind another deep Kyle Freeland start and Zac Veen firepower, the Colorado Rockies (49-73) try to continue their three-game road winning streak with a Saturday afternoon contest by the bay against the San Francisco Giants (50-72). A win would give the Rockies their 50th victory of the season and bring them even with the Giants for fourth in the division.

Leading the way for the Rockies is Michael Lorenzen (3-10 across 24 starts, 6.83 ERA, 1.875 WHIP, 81 strikeouts). Lorenzen’s performances have ebbed and flowed throughout the season. He has consistently given up a fair number of hits each game and has varied in his ability to limit the run damage. In his last start, he gave up eight hits but only surrendered two earned runs. In the start before that, however, he allowed seven earned runs on seven hits, only lasting three innings in a 13-9 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays. Over his last handful of games, his longest outing was just 4.1 innings pitched.

Lorenzen has squared off with the Giants twice this season. Back at the end of May, he went 3.2 innings with three earned runs on five hits, as the Rockies beat the Giants 8-6. More recently, he went five innings and gave up just one earned run on five hits in a 3-1 loss in July. He’ll aim to keep traffic on the basepaths to a minimum and limit San Francisco’s offense as he did in his other outings against the club.

Logan Webb gets the start for the Giants (7-7 across 21 starts, 3.59 ERA, 1.083 WHIP, 103 strikeouts). Webb has been extremely strong as of late. He’s notched two wins in his last three starts and kept runs at two or fewer in that stretch. He’s also gone deep into games, going six or more innings in his last six starts. Although San Francisco took the loss in his last game, Webb did his part, allowing just one run over eight innings of work.

Good news for the Rockies: Webb hasn’t been at his best in his two starts against Colorado this season. He was better in the first of the two, allowing only one run on three hits in 4.1 innings as the Rockies beat the Giants 8-6. His second start against Colorado, though, is his worst of the season. In a July matchup at Coors Field, Webb allowed 11 hits resulting in 7 runs and took the loss as the Giants fell 15-3.

As Colorado did with Zac Veen, the Giants are turning to a prospect tearing it up in the minors, with recently promoted outfielder Turner Hill making his MLB debut today after building a 26-game hitting streak with the Triple-A Sacramento River Cats.

Both teams are in very similar positions late in the season. The Rockies carry a good bit of momentum on their side into today’s matchup. With a slew of hot bats in the lineup, they hope to add to the win column.

First Pitch: 2:05 p.m. MDT

TV: Rockies.TV

Radio: KOA 850 AM/94.1 FM and KNRV 1150 (Spanish)

Giants SB Nation Site: McCovey Chronicles

Lineups:

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Joshua Báez made sure his major league debut somehow exceeded the wild expectations that preceded it.

Báez's emotional journey to the St. Louis Cardinals' lineup culminated Saturday, Aug. 15 when he made major league history by homering three times in his first three major league at-bats, including a towering two-run home run on the first pitch he saw from Chicago Cubs left-hander Matthew Boyd at Wrigley Field.

It's the first time any player has homered three times in his MLB debut.

That first homer, a 449-foot blast to dead center field, sent the visiting dugout into padding-pounding pandemonium and the more than two dozen family members on hand from around the USA and Dominican Republic into unabashed glee. Yet it was only the beginning of a power show that drove the Cardinals to an 8-4 victory over the Cubs.

Báez Bombs are here, St. Louis! 💣 pic.twitter.com/TENioKu6gr

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) August 15, 2026

In his second at-bat, Báez led off the fourth inning by clubbing a full-count Boyd changeup 382 feet into the third row of Wrigley's left field bleachers. He battled back from an 0-2 count and didn't see a single fastball from Boyd, who'd hoped to mix up the lefty with a mix of off-speed pitches.

Until he hung one.

TWO HOMERS FOR JOSHUA BÁEZ IN HIS BIG LEAGUE DEBUT! 🤯 pic.twitter.com/ojdN2pyy4x

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) August 15, 2026

Báez, 21, came into the game the Cardinals' No. 3 prospect, yet that designation might have to be updated after his debut.

That's because on his third trip to the plate - with Boyd, amazingly, still on the hill, increasingly becoming a more significant footnote to history - Báez found his third set of bleachers.

This time, it was to right field, off a Boyd slider, a two-run shot that gave the Cardinals a 6-3 lead. At this point, the giddiness gave way to utter disbelief. Cardinals DH Ivan Herrera simply clutched the sides of his head with his two hands, a reaction echoing Thomas Hill's tearful gratitude when Duke's Christian Laettner hit that shot back in 1992.

MAJOR LEAGUE HISTORY!!

THREE homers for Joshua Báez in his MLB debut! pic.twitter.com/aaxFwtSQku

— St. Louis Cardinals (@Cardinals) August 15, 2026

Báez was a third-round pick of the Cardinals in 2021, out of Dexter School in Brookline, Mass. He was midway through his second full pro season, at Class A Palm Beach, when his father, Jose Manuel, who'd had a profound impact on his baseball development, passed away.

Báez continued climbing the Cardinals' system and the prospect charts, rising to No. 56 in Baseball America's top 100 ratings this summer. And then came June 16, and the third anniversary of his father's death.

The Cardinals outfield prospect marked the occasion by hitting four home runs for Class AAA Memphis, pointing to the sky after each of them.

"I was just trying to push through, and it's just insane I was able to hit four home runs in one night," he said then.

It was a significant step in doubling down on his 2025 power breakout, when he hit 20 homers and got on the Cardinals' big league radar. This year, he's crushed 34 home runs and driven in 90 runs for Memphis, all but daring the Cardinals to ignore him.

That's proven impossible with every level Báez climbs. And now, he's reached the highest in historic fashion.

Many roster moves happened today, check the post below this one for the details.

Rickey (no e) Tiedemann (two e’s) sounds thrilled to be up with the Jays:

Today’s Lineup:

Low-scoring affairs have dominated the scoresheet in recent Yankee games, and with Cam Schlittler on the mound, we might very well be in line for another one. None of these low-scoring losses were more curhsing than the last time Schlittler appeared in a game, seeing his seven magnificent innings of one-run ball with double-digit strikeouts go to waste as the Yankees fell to the Braves 2-1.

Responsible for a 10-6 record on the season, Schlittler comes into this game hoping to avoid a fourth straight Yankees loss in his start, something that hasn’t happened since he first came up to the big leagues last season. It should be noted he hasn’t taken the loss in any of them, twice deserving a lot more than what he got in offensive support.

One of the aspects that has limited the Yankees’ regular-season goals has been this team’s struggles inside the division. After yesterday’s loss to the Jays, the only team against which the Yankees hold a winning record in the AL East is the Baltimore Orioles, playing .500 ball in their eight games versus Toronto, outscoring them by just a single run.

Don’t look now, but having won four out of their last five against the Red Sox and Yankees, the Blue Jays—who seemed to be in a lost season not so long ago—are now only one game back of the last AL Wild Card spot. Benefiting from an egregious lack of depth in the AL playoff picture, and despite having sold at the deadline, the Jays carry more than enough of a core to be a more dangerous club than the ones fighting for these final Wild Card spots.

Lastly, in a coincidence that doesn’t spark good memories, Schlittler will be opposed by a bullpen game just like in Game 4 of last year’s ALDS, this one with Brydon Fisher as the opener.

How to watch

Location: Rogers Centre — Toronto, ON

First pitch: 3:07 pm ET

TV broadcast: YES, Sportsnet, TVA Sports

Radio broadcast: WFAN 660/101.9 FM, WADO 1280 (NYY), SN590 THE FAN (TOR)

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Aaron Judge still has a long road ahead to returning to the Yankees from a fractured rib injury, but the slugger recently took a step in the right direction. 

According to manager Aaron Boone, who spoke to reporters before New York continues its series against the Blue Jays in Toronto on Saturday, Judge played catch for the first time during his rehab process Friday.

While it's certainly good news for Judge and the Yanks, the outfielder still has a ways to go in building up to full baseball activities. Regardless, it's good to hear that he has at least begun that process and is getting closer to a return.

Judge hasn't played in a game since May 31, although the fractured rib can likely be traced back to April when he made a diving attempt in the outfield. Before his injury, the 34-year-old was having a bit of a down season for his standards but still had 17 home runs and a .907 OPS. 

More importantly, with Judge in the lineup, New York's offense was in a groove, but since landing on the IL, the Yankees have struggled to score runs consistently, including in their 3-1 loss to the Blue Jays on Friday night.

LOS ANGLES — Edwin Díaz likely won’t be available to pitch for the remainder of the weekend against the Milwaukee Brewers, after pitching on each of the last two nights, with extended outings both nights. He walked a tightrope on Friday night, loading the bases in the ninth inning, but somehow survived to earn the save. It wasn’t a good outing by any means, but all parties believe Díaz is at least heading in the right direction.

Díaz since returning from the injured list has one clean outing in six tries, with seven runs allowed in 4 2/3 innings. One night after allowing three runs in a blown save to the Brewers, he walked two batters and hit another, loading the bases in the ninth inning. This time he escaped without damage, helped by a fantastic play by second baseman Tommy Edman for the second out of the frame. A grounder to shortstop Mookie Betts ended it.

“It was good for him to work his way out of it, and obviously he was a hitter away,” manager Dave Roberts said. “Even with that last hitter, I wanted to see him try to fight through it and get through it. I was happy that he finished what he started.

Díaz said his posture on the mound was something he was working on, that his misses were more off the plate than in the middle of the strike zone to get punished.

“I’m leaning too much toward the right-handed hitter. Instead of straight down the plate, today was way better,” Díaz said. “My fastball ride was way batter than yesterday. I’m going in a good direction, so keep getting better and keep getting better.”

There’s still a lot to work on for Díaz, who threw only 11 strikes in his 26 pitches on Friday.

“It wasn’t pretty, I watched the inning too,” Roberts said.

“The strength department and the pitching side of things, he’s kind of detected some things I think we could clean up, so that’s encouraging,” Roberts added. “We started that process today. Hopefully with a couple days off to kind of work through that, we’ll see an even better version going forward.”

Recent Dodgers relief usage

Díaz and Tanner Scott have each pitched five times in the last eight days, something that happened only four times this season in the Dodgers bullpen before this stretch — by Scott (April 21-28, May 23-30), Alex Vesia (June 10-17), and Evan Phillips (August 2-9). If Vesia, Phillips or Jack Dreyer pitch on Saturday, they will have also pitched five times in eight days.

It’s been a busy time for the Dodgers bullpen.

“That’s the hard part, that a lot of people don’t have the information on availability and workload, and redlining guys, trying to keep guys healthy. I don’t have everyone available every single night, and what’s the cost of that night versus the next two or three games and looking also at the rest of the season,” Roberts said. “Those things I gotta think through, and when you peel that layer back, then your options get a little bit smaller. Then you’re talking about lanes and what’s the best for a particular pitcher. All those things matter.”

To Roberts’ point, it’s likely that Scott wouldn’t be available on Saturday either, in addition to Díaz, as no Dodgers reliever has pitched on three consecutive days this season. And if Vesia pitches Saturday, he’d be the first Dodger in 2026 to pitch four times in five days.

That’s a long way of saying Saturday is a day for Justin Wrobleski to eat as many innings as possible, whether he turns around his recent funk or not.

Saturday game info

• Teams: Dodgers vs. Brewers
• Ballpark: Dodger Stadium
• Start time: 4:15 p.m.
• TV: Fox
• Radio: AM 570 (English), KTNQ 1020 AM (Spanish)