The Milwaukee Brewers, coming off a strong 5-1 homestand featuring a sweep of the White Sox and a series win over the Rays, will look to continue their momentum on the road against the Kansas City Royals. The Royals have also gotten off to a solid start, as they’re 3-2 entering Thursday’s series finale against the Twins.
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Series Preview: Milwaukee Brewers @ Kansas City Royals
The Brewers are still without a few key players, as Andrew Vaughn and Jackson Chourio are both out for a few weeks with hand injuries. Quinn Priester (May), Rob Zastryzny (on rehab assignment), and Craig Yoho (mid-April) are also on the IL, while outfielders Steward Berroa and Akil Baddoo will likely be sent to Triple-A whenever they’re ready to return (Berroa in April, Baddoo in June).
Kansas City is without closer Carlos Estévez, who suffered a left foot contusion on a comebacker in the ninth inning last weekend. Infielder Michael Massey is also out with a calf strain, while pitchers Stephen Kolek, James McArthur, and Alec Marsh are also shelved (Marsh likely for the season).
Through two series, the Brewer offense is led by Brice Turang’s nine hits, while Jake Bauers and Gary Sánchez have each slugged a pair of homers to lead the team. Sánchez, despite playing in only three games (six at-bats) is hitting .500/.625/1.500 with those two homers and a pair of walks. Turang has added a homer and a team-best four doubles, and David Hamilton leads the team with four steals. Christian Yelich and William Contreras are the other key contributors, while Sal Frelick has gotten off to a slow start. As a team, the Brewers are hitting .279/.378/.448 (.826 OPS ranks third in MLB) with eight homers (tied for fifth), 45 runs scored (tied for first), and 15 steals (first).
Kyle Isbel leads Kansas City’s offense with two homers thus far, as he’s hitting .571 on the season with a team-best eight hits in 14 at-bats. Maikel Garcia is hitting .313/.429/.375 with five hits, while Bobby Witt Jr. and Jac Caglianone have also added five hits apiece. Salvador Perez is still a threat offensively, and the Royals also feature former Brewer Isaac Collins, Jonathan India, Carter Jensen, Vinnie Pasquantino, and Lane Thomas. As a team, the Royals are hitting .244/.319/.400 (.719 OPS ranks ninth) with six homers (tied for 14th), 22 runs scored (tied for 22nd), and six steals (fifth).
Grant Anderson and Aaron Ashby lead the Brewer bullpen with four appearances each. Anderson hasn’t allowed a run and has struck out six over five frames, while Ashby has allowed one run (a solo homer) and struck out nine over 5 2/3 innings. DL Hall, former Royal Ángel Zerpa, Jared Koenig, and Abner Uribe have also held opponents scoreless, while Trevor Megill and Jake Woodford have the only other blemishes for this bullpen with one run allowed each. As a staff, the Brewers have a 2.83 team ERA (tied for fourth), including a 4.45 starter ERA (21st) and a 1.05 reliever ERA (second). They’ve struck out 76 batters (tied for third) over 54 innings.
Lucas Erceg is one of the few bright spots in Kansas City’s bullpen so far, with three scoreless outings spanning 2 2/3 innings with a pair of saves. Former Brewer Nick Mears, Matt Strahm, and Steven Cruz are the only other relievers to not allow a run, totaling just 4 1/3 innings between them. Bailey Falter (five runs in 3 1/3 innings), Alex Lange (two runs in 1 1/3 innings), Daniel Lynch (three runs, but only one earned, in two innings), and John Schreiber (one run in two innings) have all had a rough go of it early in the season, though Schreiber does have the team’s other save. As a staff, the Royals have a 4.36 team ERA (23rd), including a 1.98 starter ERA (third) and an 8.44 reliever ERA (28th). They’ve struck out 40 batters (27th) over 43 1/3 innings.
Friday, April 3 @ 6:45 p.m.: RHP Chad Patrick (0-0, 2.08 ERA, 5.02 FIP) vs. RHP Michael Wacha (0-0, 0.00 ERA, 1.34 FIP)
Patrick had a pretty meh start of the season, throwing 4 1/3 innings in Saturday night’s win over the White Sox. He allowed just one run but gave up five hits and a walk with four strikeouts. Patrick made his first MLB start against the Royals almost exactly one year ago, on April 1, when he allowed no runs on three hits and three walks with five strikeouts over 4 2/3 innings.
Wacha, 34, is in his 14th MLB season with his sixth MLB team. This is his third year with the Royals, who he has a 3.54 ERA and 3.61 FIP over 61 starts with. In his season debut last weekend, he went six scoreless frames against the Braves, allowing three hits and a walk with seven strikeouts on just 80 pitches. A familiar opponent for Milwaukee, Wacha has faced the Crew 17 times (16 starts), with a 4.16 ERA and 81 strikeouts over 84 1/3 innings. This is his first start against Milwaukee since 2023, when he was with the Padres.
Saturday, April 4 @ 3:10 p.m.: RHP Brandon Sproat (0-0, 21.00 ERA, 18.17 FIP) vs. RHP Seth Lugo (1-0, 0.00 ERA, 2.22 FIP)
Sproat got off to a rough start in his Brewer debut on Sunday, as he allowed seven runs on six hits (including three homers) and four walks with three strikeouts over just three innings. Luckily, Milwaukee’s offense bailed him out to deliver a late comeback win. This will mark his first career start against Kansas City.
Lugo, 36, also had a scoreless start against the Braves last weekend, though he has a win to show for it. The 6’4” righty went 6 1/3 innings in that one, allowing five hits and no walks with three strikeouts. The AL Cy Young runner-up in 2024, Lugo has made 10 appearances (two starts) against Milwaukee, with a 2.31 ERA and 26 strikeouts over 23 1/3 innings, including 6 2/3 innings with three runs allowed (two earned) and five strikeouts while with the Royals in 2024.
Sunday, April 5 @ 1:10 p.m.: LHP Kyle Harrison (0-0, 1.80 ERA, 3.17 FIP) vs. LHP Kris Bubic (1-0, 1.50 ERA, 5.50 FIP)
Unlike Sproat, Harrison had a solid Brewer debut on Monday night against the Rays, despite the fact that Milwaukee lost that one. He allowed just one run (a leadoff homer by Yandy Díaz) on four hits and a walk while striking out eight. His lone appearance against Kansas City came last year while with the Giants, a relief outing that spanned 1 1/3 innings with one run allowed and a pair of strikeouts.
Bubic, 28, is in his seventh MLB season, all with the Royals. An All-Star last year, he got off to a solid start once again this season, allowing one run on a pair of hits and three walks while striking out four against the Twins on Monday. He’s made three career starts against Milwaukee, allowing no earned runs (one earned) over 17 1/3 innings with 19 strikeouts, including six shutout frames with eight strikeouts in a win last season.
Friday, April 3: Exclusively on Apple TV; listen via radio on the Brewers Radio Network (620 WTMJ in Milwaukee)
Saturday, April 4: Brewers TV, nationally on FS1; listen via radio on the Brewers Radio Network (620 WTMJ in Milwaukee)
Sunday, April 5: Brewers TV; listen via radio on the Brewers Radio Network (620 WTMJ in Milwaukee)
This is a tough battle, with Milwaukee’s younger arms going up against three veterans for Kansas City. The Royals are a pretty evenly matched team on paper, so I’ll give them the edge at home and say K.C. wins two of three this weekend.
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Maikel Garcia of the Kansas City Royals tagged out while stealing by shortstop Joey Ortiz during the second game of a double-header at Kauffman Stadium on April 4. (Photo by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Salvador Perez’s solo homer highlighted a six-run sixth inning as the Kansas City Royals beat the Milwaukee Brewers 8-2 to earn a doubleheader split Saturday night.
By the numbers:
After Perez’s second home run of the year snapped a 2-2 tie, the Royals chased Brandon Sproat (0-1) with three consecutive two-out singles. Kansas City took an 8-2 lead when eight straight hitters reached safely after two were out.
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Sproat pitched 3 2/3 innings, allowing four runs on four hits and three walks with four strikeouts.
Royals starter Seth Lugo threw 103 pitches in five innings, allowing two runs on four hits and two walks, striking out seven.
Nick Mears (1-0) earned the victory pitching a hitless sixth inning.
Eli Morgan recorded his second career save — and first since 2023 — with three scoreless frames, striking out five.
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In the doubleheader, Kansas City relievers tossed 10 scoreless innings, allowing three hits while striking out 13.
Maikel Garcia had three of Kansas City’s 10 hits.
In the second inning, Carter Jensen doubled in two runs against Brewers opener Logan Henderson.
Milwaukee promptly tied the game in the third with Brice Turang’s RBI triple and Garrett Mitchell’s RBI double.
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With three extra base hits Saturday, Mitchell collected six RBIs, including all of the Brewer’s five runs in their 5-2 victory in game one of the split doubleheader.
Sal Frelick exited the game with left side tightness while hitting a fourth-inning single.
What’s next:
Brewers LHP Kyle Harrison (0-0, 1.80 ERA) opposes Royals LHP Kris Bubic (1-0, 1.50) in the series finale Sunday.
The Source: The Associated Press provided this report.
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Woman sentenced for obstructing Milwaukee police investigation into 4-year-old’s death
MILWAUKEE – A Milwaukee woman, charged after a 4-year-old girl was killed last year, was sentenced to probation on Thursday.
Woman sentenced
In court:
Derreanna Little, 26, was originally charged with felony child neglect. Court records show she ultimately pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of obstructing an officer and one misdemeanor count of disorderly conduct in March.
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Milwaukee County Judge David Borowski initially sentenced Little to serve time in the Milwaukee County Community Reintegration Center. However, the judge stayed that sentence and instead placed Little on probation.
Anthony Brookshire, Derreanna Little
Little is also ordered to complete 200 hours of community service as a condition of her probation. One hundred of those hours are to be performed at a Milwaukee high school to speak about the danger of guns, according to court records.
Anthony Brookshire, Little’s codefendant in the case, has already been sentenced to 15 years in prison and seven years of extended supervision. In December 2025, he pleaded guilty to two of the four charges filed against him, including second-degree reckless homicide, and the other charges were dismissed as part of a plea deal.
4-year-old killed
The backstory:
It happened near 39th and Sheridan on the night of Feb. 17, 2025. A criminal complaint said Little called 911, but when the dispatcher asked what the emergency, she didn’t respond and could be heard screaming. The call disconnected moments later.
On a second call to 911, court filings said Little was heard saying “stay with me, stay with me” and “it’s OK, you hear me, stay woke.” Shen then yelled, “Anthony, go get my baby.” There was no direct communication with the dispatcher.
Milwaukee police were dispatched to investigate the 911 call. When officers spoke to Little, the complaint said she told them her 4-year-old niece had been shot. The child was later identified as Jainadia Little.
Prosecutors said Little refused to disclose where the shooting happened. She claimed the 4-year-old and a 1-year-old were in a bedroom when she heard a gun go off. She told police she went to the bedroom, and the 1-year-old was holding a gun.
After the shooting, court filings indicated that Brookshire and Little took the wounded 4-year-old girl to a hospital. The girl died there during the early morning on Feb. 18, 2025.
Evidence secured
Dig deeper:
Milwaukee police detectives scoured the shooting scene and collected evidence. The complaint said they found blood spatter near a hole in a deflated air mattress in a bedroom, and a single bullet casing was found on the air mattress. There were also numerous pieces of mail, addressed to Brookshire, in the bedroom.
Detectives found an empty drum magazine and two empty extended magazines inside a backpack in the home’s living room, court filings said.
In a vehicle that was parked outside, prosecutors said police found a loaded semi-automatic handgun “in plain view on the floor.” They also found another semi-automatic gun with a loaded, extended magazine.
Detectives pulled three fingerprints from the handgun that was “in plain view.” Court filings said all three prints matched Brookshire.
Investigators conducted three separate interviews with Brookshire and two with Little. The complaint said, during those interviews, the accounts of what happened from both Brookshire and Little changed multiple times.
The Source: FOX6 News referenced information from the Milwaukee County District Attorney’s Office and Wisconsin Circuit Court.
Bucks head coach Doc Rivers frustrated over Giannis Antetokounmpo injury discussion
Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers has grown frustrated over the public nature of Giannis Antetokounmpo’s health status.
Milwaukee Bucks head coach Doc Rivers expressed dismay over the public nature of star Giannis Antetokounmpo’s frustration with the team over not being able to play following a hyperextension of his left knee on March 15.
Antetokounmpo had been ruled out since the Bucks’ game against Cleveland on March 17 through their loss to Boston on April 3. Before the game, Antetokounmpo spoke publicly for the first time about being held out despite his belief that he is healthy. He repeated that he is available and doesn’t understand why he can’t play, and noted that he had gone through live workouts in the hopes of being cleared.
After the game, Rivers was asked what he had been told about Antetokounmpo’s progress to a return.
“I’ve been told the same thing,” Rivers said of the workouts.
He then took issue with the fact he has had to answer questions about Antetokounmpo’s availability, or lack thereof.
“The tough part of all this is I’m in the middle and I have nothing to do with it,” Rivers continued. “Coaches don’t decide any of this, but the problem with our league is the coaches are the ones sitting out front and we have to sit here and answer this stuff. And I think there are two sides to this. I will tell you that, but I don’t want to get too involved in it. I talk to Giannis all the time about what he should be working on. Literally, I stay right there in that zone about things that I think he needs to add to his game and that’s it. I decided long ago that’s not for me to get involved in the rest of this stuff. I don’t like it though. I don’t.
“I think this is a grown man’s game and it should be handled that way by everybody. So I don’t like when it’s this ‘he said, she said’ stuff, it’s not good. So, just from that seat, the fact that I have to sit up here and keep addressing it, it bothers me. And we need to do something about it.”
The Journal Sentinel reported that the NBA, along with the National Basketball Players Association, has interviewed Antetokounmpo and members of the organization to determine if the two-time MVP is indeed healthy, and when asked about those conversations Rivers quickly demurred.
“Again, I wouldn’t know any of that,” he said. “That’s the point I’m trying to make. The league, they’re not gonna call me about this. They know I have no decision-making in this. And if they have decided to start talking to us, this is the first I’ve heard it. So, I don’t even know that. Nor should I, nor should I, but I just don’t like that this is so public. And it shouldn’t be. This is where grown men get in a room and they talk it out. Whether they agree or disagree, that doesn’t matter. But this should not be in public. And I don’t like that.”
Finally, Rivers was asked if he held any concern that the dispute would affect the team’s relationship with Antetokounmpo. For his part, Antetokounmpo said he did not like the situation but didn’t go so far as to say it would be permanently damaging.
“You know, I don’t know,” Rivers said. “I have a great relationship with him. I know that part. Literally we talk most every day, or every day that we can around each other. So, I think there’s a lot for business to be done and, you know, I’m out of the business of trying this subliminal messaging or all that crap. I’ve heard all the stuff. I just want everybody to be on the same side. ‘Cause they deserve it. All of ‘em. I don’t think there’s a bad person in this group, none of the guys that I’m talking about. I do. I think they’re all good people. But we gotta figure out how to put good people on the same page and it stays inside. I’ve never been a fan of negotiating in the media. I don’t think it’s good for anybody.”
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