The Dodgers and Brewers opened a three-game series in Milwaukee on Friday evening, a scheduled rematch of last year’s National League Championship Series.
Freddie Freeman, who provided some of the most tangible momentum for the visiting club this week, doubled twice on Wednesday and moved into the top 30 all-time in doubles. After Wednesday’s two doubles Freeman stood tied with Hall of Famers Eddie Murray and Jeff Kent on the career list.
The numbers are simple and sharp: two doubles on Wednesday, a leap into the top 30 all-time and a tie with two of the premier hitters of the last three decades. Those are milestones that land on a player’s ledger and on a series preview for opposing pitchers and managers alike.
Context here matters: the Friday series in Milwaukee is being framed explicitly as a rematch of last year’s NLCS, which gives ordinary regular-season games an added charge. Teams and fans will test how much of last season’s outcome still matters now, and Freeman’s latest accomplishment adds a personal subplot to the broader narrative.
There is a tension between the individual and the team. Freeman’s climb into the top 30 is unmistakably an individual milestone recorded on Wednesday; the series opener in Milwaukee came two days later. That gap places a spotlight on whether such personal milestones change the tenor of a short, intense series — do they shift matchups, influence pitching plans or simply add noise? The fact of the milestone is certain. How much it alters a rematch that people are calling an NLCS redux is not.
Meanwhile, on a different coast and another league calendar, Tobias Myers got the start as the Mets opened a new series in Miami on May 22, 2026. The first pitch for the Mets at Marlins was scheduled for 7:10 PM EDT, and fans could watch the game on WPIX. Radio coverage was available on Audacy Mets Radio WHSQ 880AM, the Audacy App, and 92.3 HD2.
The split of attention — a high-profile Dodgers-Brewers rematch in Milwaukee and a Mets start in Miami that carried local broadcast and radio details — underlines how the baseball calendar disperses storylines across the country on any given night. One player’s milestone can headline a national conversation while another game’s local broadcast plans shape the evening for its regional audience.
What happens next is straightforward and consequential: the series in Milwaukee will play two more games, and Freeman’s place on the all-time doubles list will be a persistent subtext for every at-bat he takes while the teams renew their rivalry. For fans following the Mets in Miami, the start by Myers and the scheduled 7:10 PM EDT first pitch define immediate expectations for that series’ opener.
For now, the clearest conclusion is this: Freddie Freeman’s climb into the top 30 in doubles has turned an otherwise routine regular-season stop into a moment that will be watched as part of a rematch billed against last season’s pennant-deciding duel, while separate regional storylines — like the Mets’ May 22 start in Miami and its broadcast map — will keep other cities tuned in for their own reasons.
