Carlos Gomez is yet to hear from the MLB about his appeal so he will get to start at least the first night of the series. I think this is what most of us wanted to see at least with Gerrit Cole on the mound against the crew for the first time since the Mother's Day brawl. Should be interesting from the first pitch with Gomez batting leadoff against Cole. Hopefully the Brewers get out to a solid lead so we can play bean ball and stir the pot a little. The Brewers send out Marco Estrada who went six strong with one earned in his only start against the Pirates this season.
Ryan Braun was reinstated off the DL today and is back in the lineup batting third finally stabilizing that spot. He has had success this season batting .400 (12 for 30) with three of his homers against the Bucs. Hopefully he can hit the ground running since he took Aramis Ramirez's spot as he went to the DL with his hamstring strain. Ramirez's move was retroactive to the 11th however. Another roster move the Brewers made was sending down Caleb Gindl and recalling utilityman Elian Herrera from AAA. Herrera has been red hot batting .577 (15 for 26) in the past week. The switch hitting Herrera will be needed as the Pirates are throwing leftys Wednesday and Thursday.
Other notes: Gomez took a pitch on his left foream/hand in the final game of the Yankees series so we'll see how it holds up tonight. Lucroy gets his chance to bat cleanup with Ramirez out of the lineup. Logan Schafer will get another start taking Khris Davis' spot in the lineup as he has been cold of late at home. Schafer comes off a big game in which he notched a clutch double in the rubber match of the series against the Yankees. Lastly Scooter Gennett gets back in the lineup replacing the hot-hitting Rickie Weeks. Weeks looks likely to get the last two starts in the series however against Francisco Liriano and Wandy Rodriguez, both of whom have struggled this season.
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