Milwaukee Brewers will have a chance to visit an old friend when they open a four-game road series against Willy Adames and San Francisco Giants on Monday night.
The team flew into San Francisco on Sunday evening and experienced opposite feelings. While the breweries celebrated a 14-1 thumping of athletics to complete a series gain and a 4-2 home standard, Giants regretted a 5-5 trip.
Adames was a driving force in Back-to-back National League Central titles by Brewers 2023 and 2024. Short stop led the team in home purchases (24) and RBI (80) 2023 before increasing these figures to 32 and 112 last season.
The 29-year-old then became a free agent and signed a seven-year, $ 182 million contract with Giants in December.
He has not yet found his power in San Francisco, with just one home in 22 matches. He reached double figures in RBI on Sunday with a couple of driving singles and only beats .202.
Brewers will start the series in second place in NL Central, a game behind Chicago Cubs, even though they received some production from Adame’s replacements on card stops.
Primary card stop Joey Ortiz has gone Homerlös with four RBI in its first 22 games. His 1-for-5 excursion against A’s on Sunday actually raised its average to .184.
Technically, Adames has already met the breweries as a member of Giants. It happened in spring training, after he, Milwauke Pitcher Freddy Peralta and Giants Ace Logan Webb participated in a Phoenix Suns game together the night before.
“Everyone there (in Milwaukee) treated me as if I was at home,” Adames, who joined the breweries in May 2021, insisted through a trade with the Tampa Bay beams. “It’s hard to leave such a place. I will always have love for them. At the end of the day it comes to business.”
Acknowledged Peralta, who is scheduled to hit the web on Wednesday night: “I don’t know if we will be able to replace (him). I am happy for him. We just have to find a way forward to keep the fantastic relationships we have had for years here in the clubhouse, the culture we have grown here.”
The right-hander Quinn Priester (1-0, 0.90 era) will start for the breweries in the opener of the series, opposite of the left Robbie Ray (3-0, 4.19).
Priester, acquired from Boston Red Sox two weeks ago, has met Adames in seven bats over the past two seasons and allowed only one hit, a single. He then beat for Pittsburgh Pirates and knocked out Adames three times.
The 24-year-old comes from a brilliant performance in a 5-0 home victory over the Detroit Tigers last Tuesday, after allowing only one hit to start a five-man closure.
Priester had similar success the only time he met Giants in his three -year career. He closed them in six rounds, but did not make a decision, in a 3-0 loss in San Francisco in April last year.
Ray has gone 3-1 with a 1.85 era for four lifetime starts against the breweries and knocks out 38 in just 24 1/3 rounds.
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