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Turang

Turang turned a 2-1 for the Brewers into a 3-2 lead with his two-run shot off Quinn Mathews. The 26-year-old has homered 21 times, and he’s just one run driven in short of his first 100-RBI campaign. There are obviously a lot of good players on the Brew Crew, but Turang is one of the key reasons they’ve been as good as anyone in the sport in 2026. Fantasy managers should be as grateful as Milwaukee is.

Turang got the scoring started for the Brewers in the bottom of the first inning when he doubled to drive in Garrett Mitchell to put his team up 1-0. Turang’s two-RBI single in the bottom of the eight inning kick-started a four-run inning for the Brewers, which proved to be enough to secure the 101st win of the season for the Brewers. Turang is slashing .368/.484/.592 in September with 11 extra-base hits and 19 RBI and appears primed for the postseason.

Turang’s homer was his 20th and the double was his 35th. Now he just needs one more steal this weekend to get to 20 of those. Who would have thought a couple of years ago that the steals might cost him a 20/20 season? He had seven homers and 50 steals in 2024.

Turang’s home run was his 19th of the season. He hit a two-run shot off Brady Singer in the first inning. Turang has five hits, two home runs and six RBI over his last two games. He’s hitting .263 with an .803 OPS and 92 RBI.

Setting an MLB record with their second 20-run shutout win this season, the Brewers clinched their eight playoff berth over their last nine seasons in this onslaught. Turang was at the middle of it all, falling just a triple short of the cycle and he broke this game open early with a three-run home run in the second inning. Besides him, Garrett Mitchell also had three hits plus a grand slam, Jackson Chourio and Joey Ortiz had four hits apiece, and every member of their starting nine reached base safely at least twice. This lineup is certainly clicking as the playoffs approach.

Turang is 8-for-15 with seven RBI and five walks in five games since the Brewers briefly dropped him to sixth in the order last week. He’s already back batting second the last two days.

David Hamilton is at the keystone and hitting ninth in his absence. It’s notable that Turang, who collected three hits and drove in three runs during Friday’s contest, is taking a seat against lefty Andrew Abbott after Brewers manager Pat Murphy said earlier this week that he’s been battling a lingering right knee issue recently. It sounds like he’s going to be able to play through the issue, but is probably going to require the occasional maintenance day down the home stretch.

Whether or not getting dropped to sixth in the lineup had anything to do with it, Turang turned in his best game in weeks tonight. He wasn’t running at 100 percent while dealing with right knee soreness, but he picked up three hits for the first time since Aug. 8.

It’s the first time this season Turang, who missed four games with right knee pain last month, has hit lower than third, but it makes sense with him batting .135/.229/.203 in his last 18 games. With Turang hitting sixth, Sal Frelick is in the leadoff spot tonight, even though he has just a .305 OBP this season. Frelick, however, is 4-for-8 lifetime against Reds starter Rhett Lowder.

It appears to just be a routine day off against LHP Sean Manaea. The entire right-handed contingent of Brewers platoon hitters is in against Manaea, with David Hamilton and Sal Frelick staying in the lineup and Turang and Christian Yelich sitting.