Cincinnati Reds vs Milwaukee Brewers Prediction & Picks - MLB

Prediction published on 8/9/24, 12:21 PM  by Carlos Zabala | Modified on 8/9/24 at 12:51 PM in MLB Picks

The Brewers and Reds are both coming off road series where they had completely hot offenses. In 4 games against the Marlins, the Reds scored 28 runs. While the Brewers absolutely demolished the Braves at Truist Park giving them 34 runs in 3 games. Only the Diamondbacks offense could match what these two have done recently.

Chourio led the Brewers to a 16-7 victory over the Braves in the last game. He hit 3 of the Brewers' 20 hits in addition to hitting 2 HRs. In the last 16 games that Chourio played, he had 12 multi-hit games.

For the first game of the series in Milwaukee, Civale will be the pitcher, the Brewers do not have a good record when Civale takes the mound this year (1-5). He has only pitched once in his career against the Reds where he only allowed 1 run in 7 innings.

To this point in the season, these division rivals have only met 6 times with 4 wins for the Brewers. In their last 10 games, both the Reds and Brewers games have resulted in a Game Total OVER on 7 occasions.

Despite their losing record, the Reds are an impressive 25-12 in Game 1 series this season.