Toronto Blue Jays vs. Milwaukee Brewers: Odds, Prediction
The Toronto Blue Jays start a very challenging road trip Tuesday night by playing the first of three at the defending NL Central champion Brewers. Milwaukee is -120 on the MLB odds with a total of 7 runs.
Betting Analysis
This series looked like a possible World Series preview when the season opened considering Milwaukee is the defending National League Central champion and Toronto the defending American League champion. And maybe it still will be a Fall Classic preview, but both are struggling some in 2026. Milwaukee started strong but enters having lost five in a row and was embarrassed over the weekend in being swept three at home by a pretty bad Washington Nationals team.
To make matters worse for the Brewers, former NL MVP Christian Yelich left Sunday’s loss with hamstring tightness and is expected to be out a while. Yelich has been one of the Brewers’ steadiest hitters this season at .314 with a homer and 10 RBIs. It’s the last thing Milwaukee needs as the club already is without left fielder Jackson Chourio, a blossoming superstar, and first baseman Andrew Vaughn. Chourio is recovering from a left hand fracture at the base of his middle finger and Vaughn from surgery to remove a fractured hamate bone in his left hand. Neither is close to a return.
These clubs played a three-game set at Rogers Centre last season and Milwaukee took two of three, and the Brewers also won the 2024 series 2-1 when they hosted three at American Family Field.
Toronto Blue Jays
Toronto won the first game Friday of its home weekend series against Minnesota but pounded in the final two by a combined score of 15-6. It might be time to worry about starting pitcher and future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer as he was crushed in Sunday’s loss and now has a 9.81 ERA on the year.
Eloy Jimenez made his season debut in the lineup at DH, called up earlier Sunday from Triple-A Buffalo on Sunday as George Springer landed on the injured list with a fracture in his left big toe. Jimenez was once a rising star but hadn’t played in the majors since 2024. He was 2-for-4 Sunday with two strikeouts.
Ace righty Kevin Guasman (0-1, 2.08 ERA) is scheduled to take the hill Tuesday for his first road outing of 2026. Gausman has gotten almost no run support yet. The 35-year-old is 2-0 with a 1.51 ERA in 35.2 career innings against Milwaukee. Gary Sanchez is 5-for-23 with a homer off him but also five strikeouts. William Contreras is 0-for-6. Toronto is 2-5 in its past seven away.
Milwaukee Brewers
In Sunday’s loss to Washington, the Brewers’ bats finally woke up with four home runs but yet again the pitching let the team down. The Nationals entered the weekend set with seven losses in their last eight games and the National League’s worst ERA. Prior to this, the Brewers hadn’t lost five games in a row since a six-game skid in June 2023 when current manager Pat Murphy was still the bench coach.
Milwaukee is a brutal 2-for-24 with runners in scoring position in the current skid. The Brew Crew turn to young fire-balling ace Jacob Misiorowski on Tuesday, and he’s must-see TV when on the mound. The 24-year-old is still finding his way in Year 2 and thus can be wild at times but is 1-1 with a 3.31 ERA and a whopping 28 strikeouts in just 16.1 innings.
Former Cy Young winner Corbin Burnes (30 in 2021) is the only pitcher in franchise history with more strikeouts through his first three appearances of a season. The key is to extend at-bats against Misiorowski and get that pitch count up. This will be the Missouri native’s first career start against Toronto. The Brewers are 11-4 in their past 15 vs. AL foes.
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