Brewers at Giants
After posting a rare victory at AT&T Park to even the three-game set, the Milwaukee Brewers attempt to win the series when they visit the San Francisco Giants on Wednesday afternoon for the finale. Milwaukee had lost 10 of its previous 11 games in San Francisco before rallying for a 4-3 triumph on Tuesday.
Ryan Braun and Travis Shaw each drove in a run in the seventh inning to erase a 3-2 deficit for the Brewers, who remained 2 1/2 games behind the first-place Chicago Cubs in the National League Central and climbed within three of Colorado for the second wild-card spot. Gorkys Hernandez went 2-for-4 with an RBI while Brandon Crawford belted a two-run homer for San Francisco, which improved to 4-2 on its seven-game homestand. Pablo Sandoval has heated up for the Giants as he enters the series finale having notched two hits in four of his last five games.
TV: 3:45 p.m. ET, MLB Network, FSN Wisconsin (Milwaukee), NBCSN Bay Area (San Francisco)
PITCHING MATCHUP: Brewers RH Matt Garza (6-7, 4.81 ERA) vs. Giants LH Matt Moore (4-12, 5.54)
Garza was rocked for the second time in three outings on Friday, when he surrendered eight runs and nine hits - three homers - over 4 1/3 innings in a loss at Colorado. The 33-year-old Californian also yielded eight runs in a setback at Minnesota on Aug. 8 and is 1-5 with a 6.38 ERA in eight turns away from home this season. Garza has made four career starts against San Francisco, going 1-2 with a 4.15 ERA.
Moore ended his nine-start winless streak on Friday, limiting Philadelphia to two runs and two hits in 7 1/3 innings for his first victory since June 20 at Atlanta. It was the 28-year-old Floridian's longest outing since working the same amount of frames against Cincinnati on May 13 and marked the first time in eight turns he did not serve up a home run. Moore, who will be facing Milwaukee for the first time, has registered three of his four wins in 2017 at home and has an ERA (4.61) at AT&T Park that is more than two runs lower than his road mark (6.71).
WALK-OFFS
1. Giants OF Jarrett Parker went 0-for-5 on Tuesday to end his seven-game hitting streak while OF Hunter Pence was scratched from the starting lineup due to tightness in his left hamstring but appeared as a pinch-hitter.
2. Milwaukee has lost 36 of its last 57 contests at San Francisco.
3. San Francisco RHP Johnny Cueto (flexor) and 2B Joe Panik (concussion) began rehab assignments with Triple-A Sacramento on Tuesday, with the former allowing three hits over three scoreless innings and the latter going 0-for-2 with a strikeout.