The Milwaukee Brewers host the Houston Astros for the first game of a three-game series at Daikin Park on Friday at 8:10 p.m. ET. Houston enters with 17 home runs over its last 10 games, 24 extra-base hits, and a .396 slugging percentage, while batting .221 with 73 total hits. Yordan Alvarez leads Houston with five home runs and eight RBI in that span, and Christian Walker adds four home runs with three walks. Milwaukee has nine home runs over its last 10 games, a .401 slugging percentage, and 27 extra-base hits, batting .262 with 87 total hits. William Contreras leads Milwaukee with a .390 average, and Jake Bauers posts a .568 slugging percentage. Houston’s starting pitcher is Kai-Wei Teng, coming off six scoreless innings versus the Cubs.
"Houston has 17 home runs during the last 10 games. Over the last 10 games, the Astros have 24 extra-base hits (2.4 per game) while slugging .396. Over the last 10 contests, Houston has a .221 batting average with 73 total hits (7.3 per game). Yordan Alvarez leads Houston in home runs over the last 10 games with five while driving in eight runs. Christian Walker has four home runs and three walks while batting .205 in the last 10 games."
"Milwaukee has hit nine home runs over the last 10 games. The Brewers have a slugging percentage of .401 over their last 10 games, fueled by 27 extra-base hits. Over Milwaukee's last 10 games, the team is batting .262 with 87 total base hits. William Contreras leads Milwaukee with a .390 batting average over the last 10 games. He's also hit one homer and has six RBI over that span. Jake Bauers has collected 13 base hits, an OBP of .400 and a slugging percentage of .568 over the last 10 games."
"The Astros will send Kai-Wei Teng (3-3) to the mound for his fifth start this season. The right-hander's last start was on Saturday, when he tossed six innings without allowing a run on two hits in a matchup with the Chicago Cubs. The 27-year-old has pitched to a 2.19 ERA this season with 8.8 strikeouts per nine innings compared to 3.6 walks per nine across 17 games."
"At Daikin Park on Friday, the Milwaukee Brewers (33-20) open a three-game series against the Houston Astros (26-32), at 8:10 p.m. ET. Want to see who's in and who's out for the Astros and the Brewers? Keep scrolling to see full injury reports for both teams."
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