The Pittsburgh Pirates and Milwaukee Brewers are playing live on the MLB baseball schedule in the afternoon on Thursday and the game for the NL central teams starts up at 1:10 pm ET from Miller Park and has the Brew Crew as one of the best teams in the major leagues this year and the matchup is streaming online from MLB.com and has Andrew McCutchen trying to turn it around for Pitt early in the season.
The Pirates come into the game after making the playoffs last season and they have been off to a slow start, while the Brewers have been the exact opposite. The Brewers did not make the playoffs last season and were bad in the NL Central and now they lead the division and they are one of the best teams in the majors with 25 wins. The Brewers come into the game at first place in the division and they lost against the Pirates in the last game and now they will finish this series before playing against the Chicago Cubs and that is another afternoon game and it's on the road against the team at Wrigley Field.
The team has Kyle Lohse on the mound for that game and he is 4-1 on the season while Jeff Samardzija comes in as the starter for the Cubs and he has pitched great but is just 0-3 on the season. Wandy Rodriguez and Yovani Gallardo will be facing off in the pitching matchup and Rod will be back after getting activated from the DL and he will matchup with Gallardo, who went for five innings and four earned runs in his last start and now the team is hoping he can bounce back from that.
The Brewers have been getting great pitching and they are ranked 19th in the league in runs scored and 15th in batting average and they are also getting Ryan Braun back and that could be big for the team as well. The team is ranked fifth in ERA and first in quality starts and that has been huge for the team and they are in the top five in WHIP and ranked in the top 10 in BAA and that is one reason they have been one of the best teams in the majors this season early on.
The Pirates have been off to a slow start and they are ranked 22nd in runs this season and they are 17th in batting average and they next will play against the New York Yankees at the Stadium in the Bronx. The team comes in after a win against the Brewers and they will be looking to get things right heading into the interleague series.
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