Rockies @ Brewers

Who will WIN this matchup?

Colorado Rockies (31-44)

@ Milwaukee Brewers (42-33)

Starting Pitchers:

Gray (COL): 4-6; 4.29 ERA

Burnes (MIL) 3-4; 2.62 ERA

Current odds:

Colorado Rockies: (+209)

Milwaukee Brewers: (-231)

• With their ballpark ready for full capacity, the Milwaukee Brewers aim to avoid their longest home losing streak of the season. Meanwhile, the Colorado Rockies look to win back-to-back road games for the first time in 2021. After splitting a four-game set at Colorado last weekend, the Brewers and Rockies open a three-game series in front of a potentially packed house in Milwaukee on Friday.

• The Brewers won four of the last five to complete a 4-3 road trip. That included two consecutive victories at Colorado.

• Having a full ballpark for the first time since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, on what the franchise and city are branding “Re-Opening Day,” would provide some obvious momentum for Milwaukee, which was swept over three games by Cincinnati in its most recent home series from June 14-16. The Brewers totaled four runs through that set, which followed a seven-game home winning streak during which they averaged 5.7 runs.

• The Rockies, meanwhile, yielded four total runs while splitting a two-game set at Seattle this week. At 6-28, Colorado has the fewest road wins in the majors, but is coming off a 5-2 victory over the Mariners on Wednesday. It last won consecutive road contests Sept. 5-6, 2020, against the Los Angeles Dodgers.

• Jon Gray (4-6, 4.29 ERA) is slated to come off the disabled list from a forearm flexor strain to make his first start since June 4. It’s been a rough season for the right-hander, who is 0-4 with a 6.35 ERA in five starts since last posting a victory on May 5. Gray’s also 0-4 with a 6.75 ERA on the road in 2021. He’s 1-1 with a 5.90 ERA in five starts against Brewers, but last faced them in 2019.

• Milwaukee star Christian Yelich is a career .368 hitter (7-for-19) with three doubles and a homer versus Gray. Yelich went 5-for-14 with five walks in last week’s series at Colorado. Riding a seven-game hitting streak, teammate Luis Urias was 7-for-15 with two doubles and a homer during the Rockies’ series.

• The Brewers will turn to Corbin Burnes (3-4, 2.62 ERA), who faces the Rockies for a second straight start after allowing four runs, eight hits, two walks and striking out six over 5 1-3 innings of a 6-5, 10-inning defeat last Friday. In his last two starts, the right-hander has yielded seven earned runs, 17 hits and walked five over 9 1-3 innings.

• Colorado’s Raimel Tapia is 3-for-4 all-time versus Burnes and batted .438 during an 18-game hitting streak that ended Wednesday. Rockies star Trevor Story homered twice Wednesday and is batting .382 with nine RBIs in his last nine games. Story, however, is 1-for-6 against Burnes during his career.