The Wild Card series are best-of-three sprints that last a maximum of just 48 hours. Three of the four Wild Card series ended in two-game sweeps on Wednesday, and only the Milwaukee Brewers and New York Mets will go the distance with a decisive Game 3 on Thursday.

The Brewers are favored at home, with surprise rookie Tobias Myers on the mound. Myers has a great story: He played in the minors for seven seasons before this breakout season with a 3.00 ERA in 138 innings.

At the start of the season, Brewers fans wouldn’t have believed Myers would pitch in a do-or-die playoff game, and it’s even more unlikely they’d feel good about him being in this spot. Two years ago, Myers was 1-15 with a 7.82 ERA in TripleA.

While Myers is in his sixth organization, opposing starter Jose Quintana knows that life too. The Mets are the 35-year-old Quintana’s seventh MLB team and the fifth in the past four seasons. The southpaw has a 3.86 ERA in five postseason appearances.

The winner in Milwaukee Thursday will join the Detroit Tigers, Kansas City Royals and San Diego Padres as winners in this round. The Tigers and Royals got road sweeps, meaning the AL Central has three of four teams left in the American League playoffs.

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New York Mets vs. Milwaukee Brewers odds

Series tied 1-1

Game 3 pitching matchup: Jose Quintana vs. Tobias Myers

How to watch Mets at Brewers

• Location: American Family Field – Milwaukee
• Time: 7:00 PM ET
• TV: ESPN
• Streaming: Fubo (free trial)

MLB game projections from THE BAT

In the tables below you’ll see details for every MLB matchup, and then a bunch of numbers (which are updated throughout the day):

• “Moneyline” shows the odds of each team on BetMGM.
• “Implied profit%” is the chance a team has of winning based on these BetMGM odds.
• “THE BAT is the probability a team has of winning based on EV Analytics projections.
• “Cashline” is how THE BAT X would determine each team’s chances.
• “Value” is the percentage difference between the probabilities and our projections.

The higher the value percentage, the better, which you can easily see from the color coding from red (bad choice) to green (good choice).

Note: On mobile, you may have to scroll to see the color-coded “Value” column on the far right of the first set of tables.

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