Two more Brewers pitchers set to undergo testing for minor injury concerns

Despite jumping out to a 4-1 start this season, which contrasted greatly from the Milwaukee Brewers' record through the first five games of the 2025 season, the Crew sits in the exact same place through 14 games as they did a season ago: 8-6. The ongoing four-game losing streak, which the Brewers will hope to put an end to today while also avoiding a sweep at the hands of the Washington Nationals, has stalled the team's exciting start to the season.

However, the record through 14 games is not the only similarity that the 2026 Brewers share with their 2025 counterparts. Both teams have suffered from a string of early-season injuries that have ridded them of key pieces of their roster during the first several weeks of the campaign. A season ago, it was the pitching staff that was hit hard by injuries, with arms like Brandon Woodruff, José Quintana, Aaron Civale, Nestor Cortes, Aaron Ashby, and DL Hall all on the IL when the first two weeks of the 2025 campaign elapsed.

This year, it's been a mix of pitching injuries and position player injuries that have impacted the Brewers in the early goings of the regular season. Both Jackson Chourio and Andrew Vaughn, two of Milwaukee's most important right-handed bats, are currently on the shelf with injuries to their respective left hands. Meanwhile, the pitching staff is having to navigate the early season without the services of Quinn Priester, Jared Koenig, and Rob Zastryzny.

On top of that, injury scares to Sal Frelick and Brice Turang in the first fortnight of the regular season have briefly forced the Brewers to tap into their depth, which is, for the most part, struggling out of the gates this year. In Saturday night's loss to the Nationals, two more injury scares caused Brewers fans to hold their collective breath at multiple points throughout the game.

Both Kyle Harrison, who started last night's game, and Brandon Sproat, who pitched in relief, were checked out by the coaching staff at various points in last night's game. Though both starters did remain in the game following their respective injury scares, they will each undergo testing to ensure the injury isn't more severe than the team initially believed. That said, the Brewers remain optimistic that no significant damage will be revealed in the testing.

Kyle Harrison, Brandon Sproat set to undergo testing after knee injury scares on Saturday night, Brewers optimisic both will be okay

During the first at-bat of last night's game against the Nationals, Harrison got Washington's All-Star outfielder, James Wood, to roll over to first baseman Gary Sánchez. However, Sánchez misplayed the grounder, and as a result, rushed his throw over to Harrison, who was covering the bag. The off-target throw drilled Harrison in the left knee, causing immediate pain for the Brewers' southpaw. After the game, Harrison described the injury as feeling like a "dead knee," but he's "not too worried about it" going forward.

This morning, during his pregame press conference, manager Pat Murphy said the team will get the scan read today, adding, "We're optimistic, but at the same time, we don't want to pretend like there's nothing when there might be something."

Meanwhile, Sproat injured his own knee while diving for a slowly hit grounder by Nasim Nuñez in the top half of the seventh inning last night. Like Harrison, Sproat stayed in the game after the injury scare and proceeded to put together his most encouraging performance yet -- a 3.2-inning, one-run relief outing.

This morning, Murphy noted that there was swelling in Sproat's bursae -- a small fluid-filled sac located above the kneecap. However, while that might sound somewhat scary, on Sproat, Murphy simply said, "He feels optimistic, but it's sore." Like Harrison, Sproat will undergo testing, but the Brewers aren't expecting to see anything significant.

On the injuries as a whole, Murphy said, "It's par for the course right now...April for the Brewers has been challenging." It's the second year in a row that the Brewers have been hit with a wave of early-season injuries, which no doubt complicates the process of a team finding their footing at the beginning of the 162-game marathon. Milwaukee bounced back in a major way last year once their roster got healthy. Hopefully, that same success results when the Brewers' injured players return to the field this year.