{"id":194,"date":"2017-04-06T15:37:23","date_gmt":"2017-04-06T15:37:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/?p=194"},"modified":"2017-04-11T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-11T15:02:47","slug":"series-preview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/2017\/04\/06\/series-preview\/","title":{"rendered":"Series Preview"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Cubs <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">vs<\/span>. Brewers<\/h1>\n<p id=\"1EJN5S\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Brewers look to shake off a rocky season-opening series against Colorado, hosting the Cubs to close out their first homestand of the year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"SL5W46\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Chicago comes to town on the heels of a series win against the Cardinals to open the year. After losing on Opening Day, the Cubs won back to back to finish the series.\u00a0Anderson makes his Cubs debut, while Nelson gets his first start of the season for the Crew.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"m-ad m-ad__desktop_article_body\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Anderson has typically been good during his career &#8212; when he&#8217;s been healthy. The lefty made only pitched in 4 games last year, throwing 11.1 pretty disastrous innings for the Dodgers. In his last full season he made 31 starts for LA, putting up a 3.69 ERA \u00a0and a perfectly average 100 ERA+.<\/span><\/div>\n<p id=\"oVoWPZ\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Hendricks was the surprise of baseball last season, winning the ERA crown with a ridiculous 2.13 mark that was probably a run lower than it should&#8217;ve been (his FIP was 3.20), but he was still a very good pitcher in 2016. The low ERA and plenty of run support from the Cubs&#8217; offense helped him to a Top-3 Cy Young finish.<\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\">The Brewers may find it difficult to score runs Saturday night, which probably isn&#8217;t great news, considering Milone is making a spot start for the injured\u00a0Junior Guerra.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"FgEqJM\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Overall, the Brewers went 8-11 against the Cubs last year, but kept the run differential against the eventual champs close, scoring 75 to Chicago\u2019s 79. Six of their 19 games last year were decided by 1 run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.ytimg.com\/vi\/04GUXsHv6MY\/maxresdefault.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"552\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cubs vs. Brewers The Brewers look to shake off a rocky season-opening series against Colorado, hosting the Cubs to close out their first homestand of the year. Chicago comes to town on the heels of a series win against the Cardinals to open the year. After losing on Opening Day, the Cubs won back to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7248,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44381,154204,414322],"tags":[481081,481346,312689,490718],"class_list":["post-194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milwaukee-brewers","category-schedule","category-season-preview","tag-cubs","tag-i-94-rivalry","tag-nl-central","tag-wrigley-north"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7248"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.uww.edu\/brewcitybaseball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}